World of the Image, The (A Longman Topics Reader)
by Smoke, Trudy; Robbins, AlanEdition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2020-03-06
Publisher(s): Pearson
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Summary
Everywhere we look in todayrs"s world, images are pervasive; we are immersed in a world of imagesand 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. Explores our reliance on images and the tools of analysis and description that we have to understand what we see. Notions of beauty, health, body decoration, and identity. Impact of images on us as citizens and consumers. How images can change our behavior. Distinction between images and reality. General interest
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. ix |
| The Act of Seeing | p. 1 |
| Seeing and Awareness | p. 4 |
| The Vision Thing: Mainly in the Brain | p. 10 |
| When Babies Become Aware of Themselves | p. 22 |
| Seeing | p. 26 |
| How to Look at Nothing | p. 34 |
| Mirroring Ourselves | p. 40 |
| Equation for Beauty Emerges in Studies | p. 42 |
| Never Just Pictures | p. 47 |
| The Body Jigsaw: Borrowing Body Decoration from Other Cultures | p. 54 |
| Visual History and African-American Families of the Nineteenth Century | p. 59 |
| New Jersey Trying A New Way For Witnesses to Pick Suspects | p. 65 |
| The Visual Surround | p. 72 |
| The Perfect Icon for an Imperfect Postliterate World | p. 75 |
| Eden by Wire: Webcameras and the Telepresent Landscape | p. 79 |
| Media Images and Violence | p. 92 |
| Speaking Brand | p. 107 |
| Images and Their Uses | p. 116 |
| Behold the Stone Age | p. 119 |
| Silent Music and Invisible Art | p. 125 |
| Dreams on the Couch | p. 132 |
| The Inner Savant | p. 138 |
| In the River of Consciousness | p. 146 |
| Pictures that Prod | p. 158 |
| Once Again, Patriotic Themes Ring True as Art | p. 160 |
| Dire Image: The Art of Persuasion | p. 164 |
| Cartoon Wars | p. 170 |
| Reality's Flight | p. 174 |
| What Is Art? | p. 178 |
| The Image as Reality | p. 183 |
| The Digital Media Landscape | p. 185 |
| Living with the Fake and Learning to Like It | p. 196 |
| Colorizing the Cosmos | p. 203 |
| Pygmalion's Power | p. 206 |
| The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction | p. 211 |
| Credits | p. 217 |
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