"Pictures are important parts of communicative acts, along with language, gesture, facial expressions, and props. They express wide ranges of thoughts, make assertions, and offer warnings, instructions, and commands. Pictures are also representations. They have meanings, which h…
John Kulvicki explores the many ways in which pictures can be meaningful, taking inspiration from the philosophy of language. Pictures are important parts of communicative acts. They express a variety of thoughts, and they are also representations. Kulvicki shows how the meaning…
"The work of art has often been a battleground--its decorative and formal aspects positioned against its nature as an embodiment of cognitive acts. Leonardo da Vinci's claim that art be a "cosa mentale" is winning at last: recent debates around art schools and their methods, of …
The work of art has often been a battleground - its decorative and formal aspects positioned against its nature as an embodiment of cognitive acts. Leonardo da Vinci's claim that art be a "cosa mentale" is winning at last: recent debates around art schools and their methods, of …
In the fifteenth century, the Oblates of Santa Francesca Romana, a fledgling community of religious women in Rome, commissioned an impressive array of artwork for their newly acquired living quarters, the Tor de'Specchi. The imagery focused overwhelmingly on the sensual, corpore…
There are as many meanings to drawing and painting as there are cultural contexts in which they exist. But this is not the end of the story. Drawings and paintings are made, and the process of making creates unique meanings that transform our perception of space-time and our sen…
"This forward-thinking collection brings together over sixty essays that invoke images to summon, interpret, and argue with visual studies and its neighboring fields such as art history, media studies, visual anthropology, critical theory, cultural studies, and aesthetics. The p…
La 4e de couv. porte : "Sopraffatti dalle immagini, non sappiamo dire più che cosa sia davvero un'immagine. Sono necessari strumenti che ci aiutino a interpretare la "cultura visuale" in cui siamo immersi, senza relegarci nella posizione di spettatori inerti. "Teorie dell¹immagi…
Images are not neutral conveyors of messages shipped around the globe to achieve globalized spectatorship. They are powerful forces that elicit very diverse responses and can resist new visual hegemonies of our global world. Bringing together case studies from the field of media…
"Taking as its point of departure Roland Barthes'classic series of essays, Mythologies, Rebecca Houze presents an exploration of signs and symbols in the visual landscape of postmodernity. In nine chapters Houze considers a range of contemporary phenomena, from the history of su…
La figuration n'est pas tout entière livrée à la fantaisie expressive de ceux qui font des images. On ne figure que ce que l'on perçoit ou imagine, et l'on n'imagine et ne perçoit que ce que l'habitude nous a enseigné à discerner. Le chemin visuel que nous traçons spontanément d…
« La figuration n'est pas tout entière livrée à la fantaisie expressive de ceux qui font des images. On ne figure que ce que l'on perçoit ou imagine, et l'on n'imagine et ne perçoit que ce que l'habitude nous a enseigné à discerner. Le chemin visuel que nous traçons spontanément…
This book provides original grounds for integrating the bodily, somatic senses into our understanding of how we make and engage with visual art. Rosalyn Driscoll, a visual artist who spent years making tactile, haptic sculpture, shows how touch can deepen what we know through se…