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To See In the Dark
Get PDFEn esta traducción presentamos la introducción y el primer capítulo de To See In the Dark. Palestine and VisualActivism Since October 7, de Nicholas Mirzoeff. El libro fue publicado en 2025 por Pluto Press. Agradecemosprofundamente al autor y a la editorial por permitirnos hacer esta traducción. In this translation we present the introduction and first chapter of To See In the Dark. Palestine and VisualActivism Since October 7, by Nicholas Mirzoeff. The book was published in 2025 by Pluto Press. We are deeply grateful to the author and the publisher for allowing us to make this translation
An introduction to visual culture
No full textThe author traces the history and theory of visual culture asking how and why visual media have become so central to contemporary everday life. He explores a wide range of visual forms, including painting, sculpture, photography, television, cinema, virtual reality, and the Internet while addressing the subjects of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, the body, and the international media event that followed the death of Princess Diana
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Pictorial sign and social order : L'Académie Royale de Peinture et Sculpture 1638-1752
Get PDFIn my doctorate, I have sought to question the establishment of
the Academy in France along two particular lines of enquiry. I
considered why the government established a state institution for
the arts and how and why it sought to influence artistic
production. Under Richelieu, artistic initiatives were
subordinated to the requirements of factional court politics. But
after the upheavals of the Fronde (1648-53), the monarchy
created the Absolutist court in which aesthetics were politics.
In the phrase used by the logicians of Port-Royal: Le portrait du
Cesar, c'est Cesar".
The increased political importance of the image coincided with
a radical re-evaluation of sight and its representation in the
visual image, following the work of Descartes. I therefore set
out to analyse the debates in and around the Academy concerning
theories of vision and their implication for the artist. I found
the Academy resisted Cartesian and perspectival theory and
expelled its first Professor of Perspective, Abraham Bosse, in a
dispute which sheds much light on its institutional and
theoretical base. Far from being an easy Academic victory, the
dispute required the intervention of Colbert himself. Insteadof
the Desarguian perspective championed by Bosse, the Academy's
theorist, Gregoire Huret sought to control the pictorial sign
through gender difference. But his theory contained too many
prohibitions to be of practical use to artists.
It was not until the Academy was pushed by the government into
accepting the Modern theories of Roger de Piles that a gap opened
between nature and its representation in which artists could
operate. These two histories were closely linked, for it was not
until the Academy found a means of representing its theory in the
work of Watteau and the fête galante artists, that it achieved
institutional security. The final chapter of my thesis analyses
Watteau's work as a resolution of the long-standing theoretical
uncertainty in the Academy over the status of the visual image.
In an epilogue, the rapid death of the fete galante as a genre is
shown to mark the end of this chapter of Academic history.
In elucidating the often complex artistic theories in early
modern France, I have made use of the methodology and theory of
contemporary French thinkers such as Louis Mann, Michel Foucault
and Jacques Derrida. Their insights have helped me appreciate the
complexity and vitality of Academic thought which has so often
been readily dismissed as sterile scholasticism. The painters of
the Academy were also theorists. In that sense, we have much to
learn from them
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
An introduction to visual culture
No full textBuku ini mencakup berbagai media visual, seperti seni lukis, film, internet, iklan, pertunjukan, fotografi, dan televisi. Buku ini memberikan gambaran yang luas dan menarik tentang budaya visual. Buku ini bermanfaat bagi mahasiswa seni dan sejarah seni, serta mahasiswa studi budaya. Pokok-pokok isi buku: Mendefinisikan budaya visual, Menjelaskan mengapa dan bagaimana media visual menjadi bagian penting dalam kehidupan sehari-hari saat ini, Berpendapat bahwa visual menggantikan bahasa sebagai cara utama berkomunikasi dan memahami dunia postmodern kita, Mengajak pembaca untuk mempertimbangkan dampak visualisasi terhadap pembentukan masyarakat global, Menunjukkan bahwa budaya visual adalah studi yang relevan dan penting dalam arena digital. Berpendapat bahwa struktur interpretasi yang fleksibel sangat penting jika perguruan tinggi ingin memahami dunia di luar kampu
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
An Introduction To Visual Culture
No full textEdisi ketiga dari buku klasik ini memperkenalkan ulang kajian budaya visual sebagai bentuk aktivisme visual—yakni mengaktifkan yang terlihat. Nicholas Mirzoeff menyajikan visual culture sebagai praktik: cara bertindak, mencipta, dan melihat. Buku ini terdiri dari dua belas bab baru yang dibagi ke dalam tiga bagian utama. Bagian pertama membahas lima konsep dasar, termasuk cara pandang masyarakat adat, aktivisme visual pasca-perbudakan, dan pembongkaran pandangan yang tetap. Bagian kedua mengeksplorasi taktik aktivisme visual masa kini seperti penghapusan monumen, restitusi benda budaya, serta praktik perbaikan dan reparasi. Bagian ketiga mengulas bencana dan trauma, mulai dari Nakba Palestina hingga krisis iklim dan persimpangan antara pandemi dan perang. Dilengkapi studi kasus mendalam yang disebut Visualizations, buku ini menjadi panduan penting dalam studi budaya visual kontemporer, dengan fokus pada isu ras, kolonialisme, dan dekonstruksi gender
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