Description: Further DetailsTitle: Visuality and VirtualityCondition: NewEAN: 9780691171944ISBN: 9780691171944Publisher: Princeton University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 11/14/2017Item Height: 254mmItem Length: 178mmItem Weight: 1021gAuthor: Whitney DavisLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: Images and Pictures from Prehistory to PerspectiveISBN-10: 0691171947Description: A provocative and challenging new conceptual framework for the study of images This book builds on the groundbreaking theoretical framework established in Whitney Davis's acclaimed previous book, A General Theory of Visual Culture, in which he shows how certain culturally constituted aspects of artifacts and pictures are visible to informed viewers. Here, Davis uses revealing archaeological and historical case studies to further develop his theory, presenting an exacting new account of the interaction that occurs when a viewer looks at a picture. Davis argues that pictoriality--the depiction intended by its maker to be seen--emerges at a particular standpoint in space and time. Reconstruction of this standpoint is the first step of the art historian's craft. Because standpoints are inherently mutable and mobile, pictoriality constantly shifts in form and possible meaning. To capture this complexity, Davis develops new concepts of radical pictorial ambiguity, including "bivisibility" (the fact that pictures can always be seen in ways other than intended), pictorial naturalism, and the behavior of pictures under changing angles of view.He then applies these concepts to four cases--Paleolithic cave painting; ancient Egyptian tomb decoration; classical Greek architectural sculpture, with a focus on the Parthenon frieze; and Renaissance perspective as invented by Brunelleschi. A profound new theory of the work of both makers and viewers by one of the discipline's most esteemed and engaged thinkers, Visuality and Virtuality is essential reading for art historians, architects, archaeologists, and philosophers of art and visual theory.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Arts & PhotographyTopic: Society & CultureRelease Year: 2017 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Visuality and Virtuality
Title: Visuality and Virtuality
EAN: 9780691171944
ISBN: 9780691171944
Release Date: 11/14/2017
Release Year: 2017
Subtitle: Images and Pictures from Prehistory to Perspective
ISBN-10: 0691171947
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Arts & Photography
Topic: Society & Culture
Number of Pages: 368 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Visuality and Virtuality : Images and Pictures from Prehistory to Perspective
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Subject: Media Studies, Criticism & Theory, General, Cognitive Psychology & Cognition
Publication Year: 2017
Item Height: 1.2 in
Item Weight: 36 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Whitney Davis
Subject Area: Art, Social Science, Psychology
Item Length: 10.2 in
Item Width: 7.4 in
Format: Hardcover
