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  • Grammatology of Images

    A History of the A-Visible

    par Sigrid Weigel ...
    Traduit par Chadwick Truscott Smith ...
    Collections series Commonalities
    Grammatology of Images radically alters how we approach images. Instead of asking for the history, power, or essence of images, Sigrid Weigel addresses imaging as such. The book considers how something a-visible gets transformed into an image. Weigel scrutinizes the moment of mis-en-apparition, of making an appearance, and the process of concealment that accompanies any imaging.Weigel reinterprets ... En savoir plus

    $43.99 CAD

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  • Between Word and Image

    Heidegger, Klee, and Gadamer on Gesture and Genesis

    par Dennis J. Schmidt ...
    Collections series Studies in Continental Thought
    A groundbreaking examination of word and image through the lenses of modern art and Continental philosophy: "Probing and lucid" (Stephen H. Watson, University of Notre Dame).Engagement with the image has played a decisive role in the formulation of the very idea of philosophy since Plato. Identifying pivotal moments in the history of philosophy, Dennis J. Schmidt develops the question of ... En savoir plus

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  • Memory, Metaphor, and Aby Warburg's Atlas of Images

    par Christopher D. Johnson ...
    Collections series Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
    The work of German cultural theorist and art historian Aby Warburg (1866–1929) has had a lasting effect on how we think about images. This book is the first in English to focus on his last project, the encyclopedic Atlas of Images: Mnemosyne. Begun in earnest in 1927, and left unfinished at the time of Warburg's death in 1929, the Atlas consisted of sixty-three large wooden panels covered with ... En savoir plus

    $36.99 CAD

  • Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method

    par Carlo Ginzburg, Carlo Ginzburg ...
    Traduit par John Tedeschi, Anne C. Tedeschi ...
    Carlo Ginzburg considers how we assign historical context to events.More than twenty years after Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method was first published in English, this extraordinary collection remains a classic. The book brings together essays about Renaissance witchcraft, National Socialism, sixteenth-century Italian painting, Freud’s wolf-man, and other topics. In the influential ... En savoir plus

    $31.99 CAD

  • On the Ruins of Babel

    Architectural Metaphor in German Thought

    par Daniel Leonhard Purdy ...
    Collections series Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
    The eighteenth century struggled to define architecture as either an art or a science—the image of the architect as a grand figure who synthesizes all other disciplines within a single master plan emerged from this discourse. Immanuel Kant and Johann Wolfgang Goethe described the architect as their equal, a genius with godlike creativity. For writers from Descartes to Freud, architectural ... En savoir plus

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  • Meaning, Truth, and Reference in Historical Representation

    par Frank R. Ankersmit ...
    In this book, the noted intellectual historian Frank Ankersmit provides a systematic account of the problems of reference, truth, and meaning in historical writing. He works from the conviction that the historicist account of historical writing, associated primarily with Leopold von Ranke and Wilhelm von Humboldt, is essentially correct but that its original idealist and romanticist idiom needs to ... En savoir plus

    $37.99 CAD

  • The City Rehearsed

    Object, Architecture, and Print in the Worlds of Hans Vredeman de Vries

    par Christopher Heuer ...
    Collections series The Classical Tradition in Architecture
    The City Rehearsed offers an entirely new perspective on printed architecture in early modern Europe through the lens of Hans Vredeman de Vries. It probes the geographical encounters of dozens of engravings with contemporary texts on architecture, theatre, urbanism, art collecting, even ethnography.The Netherlandish polymath Hans Vredeman de Vries (1526-1609) devoted his entire career to the ... En savoir plus

    $114.99 CAD

  • ABC: The Alphabetizaton of the Popular Mind

    par Ivan Illich ...
    In ABC... philosopher and cultural analyst Ivan Illich and medieval scholar and literary critic Barry Sanders have produced an original, meticulous and provocative study of the advent, spread and present decline of literacy. They explore he impact of the alphabet on fundamental thought processes and attitudes, on memory, on political groupings and religous and cultural expectations. Their ... En savoir plus

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  • An Introduction to Iconography

    Symbols, Allusions and Meaning in the Visual Arts

    par Roelof van Straten ...
    Traduit par Patricia de Man ...
    Collections series Documenting the Image
    Available for the first time in English, An Introduction to Iconography explains the ways that artists use references and allusions to create meaning. The book presents the historical, theoretical, and practical aspects of iconography and ICONCLASS, the comprehensive iconographical indexing system developed by Henri van de Waal. It gives particular emphasis to the history of iconography, ... En savoir plus

    $104.99 CAD

  • A Short History of the Shadow

    par Victor I. Stoichita ...
    Collections series Essays in Art and Culture
    In this investigative tour de force, Victor I. Stoichita untangles the history of one of the most enduring technical and symbolic challenges to beset Western artists - the depiction and meanings of shadows. The representation of shadow, and especially of cast shadow, is as old as art itself, for according to classical writers art was born when the outline of a human shadow thrown onto a wall was ... En savoir plus

    $22.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to German Romanticism

    Modifié par Nicholas Saul ...
    Collections series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries saw an extraordinary flowering of arts and culture in Germany which produced many of the world's finest writers, artists, philosophers and composers. This volume, first published in 2004, offers students and specialists an authoritative introduction to that dazzling cultural phenomenon, now known collectively as German Romanticism. Individual ... En savoir plus

    $39.99 CAD

  • The Meaning of Modern Architecture

    Its Inner Necessity and an Empathetic Reading

    par Hans Rudolf Morgenthaler ...
    Using empathy, as established by the Vienna School of Art History, complemented by insights on how the mind processes visual stimuli, as demonstrated by late 19th-century psychologists and art theorists, this book puts forward an innovative interpretative method of decoding the forms and spaces of Modern buildings. This method was first developed as scholars realized that the new abstract art ... En savoir plus

    $101.68 CAD