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Objects of Vision

- Making Sense of What We See
Af: A. Joan Saab Engelsk Hardback

Objects of Vision

- Making Sense of What We See
Af: A. Joan Saab Engelsk Hardback
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Advances in technology allow us to see the invisible: fetal heartbeats, seismic activity, cell mutations, virtual space. Yet in an age when experience is so intensely mediated by visual records, the centuries-old realization that knowledge gained through sight is inherently fallible takes on troubling new dimensions. This book considers the ways in which seeing, over time, has become the foundation for knowing (or at least for what we think we know). A. Joan Saab examines the scientific and socially constructed aspects of seeing in order to delineate a genealogy of visuality from the Renaissance to the present, demonstrating that what we see and how we see it are often historically situated and culturally constructed. Through a series of linked case studies that highlight moments of seeming disconnect between seeing and believing—hoaxes, miracles, spirit paintings, manipulated photographs, and holograms, to name just a few—she interrogates the relationship between “visions” and visuality. This focus on the strange and the wonderful in understanding changing notions of visions and visual culture is a compelling entry point into the increasingly urgent topic of technologically enhanced representations of reality. Accessibly written and thoroughly enlightening, Objects of Vision is a concise history of the connections between seeing and knowing that will appeal to students and teachers of visual studies and sensory, social, and cultural history.
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Advances in technology allow us to see the invisible: fetal heartbeats, seismic activity, cell mutations, virtual space. Yet in an age when experience is so intensely mediated by visual records, the centuries-old realization that knowledge gained through sight is inherently fallible takes on troubling new dimensions. This book considers the ways in which seeing, over time, has become the foundation for knowing (or at least for what we think we know). A. Joan Saab examines the scientific and socially constructed aspects of seeing in order to delineate a genealogy of visuality from the Renaissance to the present, demonstrating that what we see and how we see it are often historically situated and culturally constructed. Through a series of linked case studies that highlight moments of seeming disconnect between seeing and believing—hoaxes, miracles, spirit paintings, manipulated photographs, and holograms, to name just a few—she interrogates the relationship between “visions” and visuality. This focus on the strange and the wonderful in understanding changing notions of visions and visual culture is a compelling entry point into the increasingly urgent topic of technologically enhanced representations of reality. Accessibly written and thoroughly enlightening, Objects of Vision is a concise history of the connections between seeing and knowing that will appeal to students and teachers of visual studies and sensory, social, and cultural history.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 166
ISBN-13: 9780271088105
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 0271088109
Kategori: Kunsthistorie
Udg. Dato: 12 nov 2020
Længde: 19mm
Bredde: 178mm
Højde: 254mm
Forlag: Pennsylvania State University Press
Oplagsdato: 12 nov 2020
Forfatter(e): A. Joan Saab
Forfatter(e) A. Joan Saab

Kategori Kunsthistorie

ISBN-13 9780271088105

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 166

Udgave

Længde 19mm

Bredde 178mm

Højde 254mm

Udg. Dato 12 nov 2020

Oplagsdato 12 nov 2020

Forlag Pennsylvania State University Press

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