Full Description
Everywhere we look in today's world, images are pervasive; we are immersed in a world of images-and we are relying more and more on images to understand ourselves and our world. This brief, focused reader explores our reliance on images and the tools of analysis and description that we have to understand what we see.
Contents
Preface.1. The Act of SeeingDeborah Curtis, Seeing and AwarenessDenise Grady, The Vision Thing: Mainly in the BrainMark Prendergrast, When Babies Become Aware of ThemselvesAnnie Dillard, SeeingJames Elkins, How to Look at Nothing2. Mirroring OurselvesDaniel Goleman, Equation for Beauty Emerges in StudiesSusan Bardo, Never Just PicturesPhilippe Liotard, The Body JigsawDonna M. Wells, Visual History and Afican American Families of the Nineteenth CenturyGina Kolata & Ivor Peterson, New Jersey Trying a New Way for Witnesses to Pick Suspects3. The Visual SurroundRead Mercer Schuchardt, The Perfect Icon for an Imperfect Postliterate WorldThomas J. Campanella, Eden by Wire: Webcameras and the Telepresent LandscapeAnn Marie Seward Barry, Media Images and ViolenceThomas Hine, Notable Quotables: Why Images Become IconsRobin Landa, Speaking Brand4. Images and Their UsesRobert Hughes, Behold the Stone AgeEdmund Carpenter, Silent Music and Invisible ArtDavid Gelman, Dreams on the CouchDouglas S. Fox, The Inner SavantOliver Sacks, In the River of Consciousness5. Pictures That ProdDeborah Solomon, Once Again, Patriotic Themes Ring True as ArtAlan Robbins, Dire Image: The Art of PersuasionRichard Goldstein, Cartoon WarsNina Willdorf, Reality's FlightLeo Tolstoy, What Is Art?6. The Image as RealityThomas Wheeler, The Digital Media Landscape: Liquid Imagery, Shaky CredibilityAda Louise Huxtable, Living with the Fake and Learning to Like ItBob Berman, Colorizing the CosmosErnst Gombrich, Pygmalion's PowerWalter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechnical Reproduction
