Visuality and virtuality : images and pictures from prehistory to perspective / Whitney Davis.
Visuality and virtuality : images and pictures from prehistory to perspective / Whitney Davis.
Visuality and virtuality : images and pictures from prehistory to perspective / Whitney Davis.
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Publisher
Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2017]
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G 2020/0238
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Language
English
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Physical content
xiii, 350 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Introduction: Images and pictures -- Part 1: Analytics of imaging pictures in visual space. Visuality and virtuality : analytics of visual space and pictorial space ; Radical pictoriality : seeing-as, seeing-as-as, seeing-as-as-as ... ; What the Chauvet Master saw : on the presence of prehistoric pi...
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Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2017]
Place of Publication
New Jersey
Date Published
[2017]
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Summary
This book builds on the theoretical framework established in Whitney Davis's acclaimed previous book, A General Theory of Visual Culture, in which he shows how certain culturally constituted aspects of artifacts and pictures are visible to informed viewers. Here, Davis uses archaeological and historical case studies to further develop his theory, p...
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Visuality and virtuality : images and pictures from prehistory to perspective / Whitney Davis.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2020/0238
Record Identifier
74VKaZL3dJ83
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaZL3dJ83
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ISBN
0691171947 hardcover ; alkaline paper
9780691171944 hardcover ; alkaline paper
DDC
701.18
MMS ID
991024291017302626
