How Images Think
Title | How Images Think PDF eBook |
Author | Ron Burnett |
Publisher | MIT Press |
Total Pages | 284 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780262524414 |
The transformation of images in the age of new mediaand the digital revolution.
Thinking with Images
Title | Thinking with Images PDF eBook |
Author | John M. Carvalho |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 270 |
Release | 2018-08-06 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0429869916 |
This book advances an enactivist theory of aesthetics through the study of inscrutable artworks that challenge us to think because we do not know what to think about them. John M. Carvalho presents detailed analyses a four artworks that share this unique characteristic: Francis Bacon’s Study After Velázquez’s Portrait of Pope Innocent X (1953), the photographs of Duane Michals, based on a retrospective of his work, Storyteller, at the Carnegie Museum of Art (2014), Étant donnés (1968) by Marcel Duchamp, and Jean-Luc Godard’s 1963 film Le Mépris (released in the United States as Contempt). Carvalho argues against the application of theory to derive appreciation or meaning from these artistic works. Rather, each study enacts an embodied cognitive engagement with the specific artworks intended to demonstrate the value of thinking about artworks that might be extended to our engagement with the world in general. This thinking happens, as these studies show, when we trust our embodied skills and their guide to what artworks and the world around us afford for the activation and refinement of those skills. Thinking with Images will be of interest to scholars working in the philosophy of art and philosophical aesthetics, as well as art historians concerned with the meaning and value of contemporary art.
Thinking in Pictures
Title | Thinking in Pictures PDF eBook |
Author | Temple Grandin |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | 228 |
Release | 2009-09-07 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1408807300 |
The idea that some people think differently, though no less humanly, is explored in this inspiring book. Temple Grandin is a gifted and successful animal scientist, and she is autistic. Here she tells us what it was like to grow up perceiving the world in an entirely concrete and visual way - somewhat akin to how animals think, she believes - and how it feels now. Through her finely observed understanding of the workings of her mind she gives us an invaluable insight into autism and its challenges.
Visual Thinking Strategies
Title | Visual Thinking Strategies PDF eBook |
Author | Philip Yenawine |
Publisher | Harvard Education Press |
Total Pages | 208 |
Release | 2013-10-01 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1612506119 |
"What’s going on in this picture?" With this one question and a carefully chosen work of art, teachers can start their students down a path toward deeper learning and other skills now encouraged by the Common Core State Standards. The Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) teaching method has been successfully implemented in schools, districts, and cultural institutions nationwide, including bilingual schools in California, West Orange Public Schools in New Jersey, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. It provides for open-ended yet highly structured discussions of visual art, and significantly increases students’ critical thinking, language, and literacy skills along the way. Philip Yenawine, former education director of New York’s Museum of Modern Art and cocreator of the VTS curriculum, writes engagingly about his years of experience with elementary school students in the classroom. He reveals how VTS was developed and demonstrates how teachers are using art—as well as poems, primary documents, and other visual artifacts—to increase a variety of skills, including writing, listening, and speaking, across a range of subjects. The book shows how VTS can be easily and effectively integrated into elementary classroom lessons in just ten hours of a school year to create learner-centered environments where students at all levels are involved in rich, absorbing discussions.
Unflattening
Title | Unflattening PDF eBook |
Author | Nick Sousanis |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | 209 |
Release | 2015-04-20 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0674744438 |
Unflattening is an experiment in visual thinking. Nick Sousanis defies conventional forms of scholarly discourse to offer readers both a stunning work of graphic art and a serious inquiry into the ways humans construct knowledge.
Visual Thinking
Title | Visual Thinking PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Wolf |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 206 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Photography |
ISBN |
One of the 20th century's foremost photographers and art directors reveals the variety of creative methods he employs to produce his outstanding visual images. Each of 17 chapters focuses on a particular technique, from use of strange perspective to unexpected combinations of objects. Written in a personally revealing style, and filled with anecdotes accumulated during a 40-year career in advertising and design, this book examines the fascinating process of transforming words into imagery. More than 250 illustrations, almost all in full color, provide a comprehensive overview of Henry Wolf's career: Also included are reproductions of art works that inspired his ideas and techniques. This insightful and informative look at the creative process from a very personal viewpoint will appeal to professional photographers, designers and art directors, as well as anyone who creates, or simply enjoys, interesting photographic images.--From publisher description.
Thinking Through Images
Title | Thinking Through Images PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Tilley |
Publisher | Oxbow Books |
Total Pages | 580 |
Release | 2021-10-13 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1789257026 |
This book provides a general self-reflexive review and critical analysis of Scandinavian rock art from the standpoint of Chris Tilley’s research in this area over the last thirty years. It offers a novel alternative theoretical perspective stressing the significance of visual narrative structure and rhythm, using musical analogies, putting particular emphasis on the embodied perception of images in a landscape context. Part I reviews the major theories and interpretative perspectives put forward to understand the images, in historical perspective, and provides a critique discussing each of the main types of motifs occurring on the rocks. Part II outlines an innovative theoretical and methodological perspective for their study stressing sequence and relationality in bodily movement from rock to rock. Part III is a detailed case study and analysis of a series of rocks from northern Bohuslän in western Sweden. The conclusions reflect on the theoretical and methodological approach being taken in relation to the disciplinary practices involved in rock art research, and its future.