Iconotropism

Iconotropism
Author: Ellen Spolsky
Publsiher: Bucknell University Press
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2004
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780838755426

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"The essays in this collection expand the boundaries of inter-art studies, claiming that human beings have evolved to draw nourishment from pictures. Ellen Spolsky argues in a polemical introduction that the recognition of our embodied need for pictures, that is, our human iconotropism, provides a fresh way of understanding the relationship of works of art to their historical contexts."--Jacket.

Word vs Image

Word vs Image
Author: E. Spolsky
Publsiher: Springer
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2006-11-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780230598034

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Arguing on recent cognitive evidence that reading a Bible is much more difficult for human brains than seeing images, this book exposes the depth and breadth of Protestant theologians' misunderstandings about how people could reform their spiritual lives - how they could literally change their minds.

Iconotropism

Iconotropism
Author: Ellen Spolsky
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2004-11-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1611481813

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This is the first collection of word and image studies set within the perspective of the cognitive study of interpretation. The editor's claim that pictures and texts arise from the biological as well as the social interaction of individual artists, viewers, and readers with their environments is exemplified by the selection of original essays ranging from studies of Raphael, Titian, and Carracci, to an emblematic portrait by Georgia O'Keeffe, and to drawings retrieved from German concentration camps. This collection begins the work - surely to be expanded by art historians and theorists of the image, as interest in cognition and interpretation itself spreads - of investigating what can be learned about the interpretation of pictures within their historical contexts when an innate iconotropism, or hunger for what can be known from pictures, is assumed.

The Authority of the Word

The Authority of the Word
Author: Celeste Brusati,Karl A. E.. Enenkel,Walter Melion
Publsiher: BRILL
Total Pages: 773
Release: 2011-11-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 9789004215153

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This book examines scriptural authority and its textual and visual instruments, asking how words and images interacted to represent and by representing to constitute authority, both sacred and secular, in Northern Europe between 1400 and 1700.

The Contracts of Fiction

The Contracts of Fiction
Author: Ellen Spolsky
Publsiher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2015
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780190232146

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This title considers the advantages of describing fictions as governed by a set of social contracts. It combines current cognitive research with attention to the historical context of works of imagination to argue against the claim that fictions corrupt clear thinking and provide, at best, inert pleasures. The chapters explore the different ways creative work in media from statues to stage plays helps to maintain cultural homeostasis. Like the social contracts of law, language, kinship, and money, the social contracts of fiction are constructed and continually revised within communities.

The Seductions of Darwin

The Seductions of Darwin
Author: Matthew Rampley
Publsiher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2017-01-05
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780271079028

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The surge of evolutionary and neurological analyses of art and its effects raises questions of how art, culture, and the biological sciences influence one another, and what we gain in applying scientific methods to the interpretation of artwork. In this insightful book, Matthew Rampley addresses these questions by exploring key areas where Darwinism, neuroscience, and art history intersect. Taking a scientific approach to understanding art has led to novel and provocative ideas about its origins, the basis of aesthetic experience, and the nature of research into art and the humanities. Rampley’s inquiry examines models of artistic development, the theories and development of aesthetic response, and ideas about brain processes underlying creative work. He considers the validity of the arguments put forward by advocates of evolutionary and neuroscientific analysis, as well as its value as a way of understanding art and culture. With the goal of bridging the divide between science and culture, Rampley advocates for wider recognition of the human motivations that drive inquiry of all types, and he argues that our engagement with art can never be encapsulated in a single notion of scientific knowledge. Engaging and compelling, The Seductions of Darwin is a rewarding look at the identity and development of art history and its complicated ties to the world of scientific thought.

German in the World

German in the World
Author: James Hodkinson,Benedict Schofield
Publsiher: Studies in German Literature L
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2020
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9781640140332

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Weighs the value of Germanophone culture, and its study, in an age of globalization, transnationalism, and academic change.

Blood and Beauty

Blood and Beauty
Author: Rex Koontz,Heather Orr
Publsiher: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Total Pages: 399
Release: 2009-12-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781938770432

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Warfare, ritual human sacrifice, and the rubber ballgame have been the traditional categories through which scholars have examined organized violence in the artistic and material records of ancient Mesoamerica and Central America. This volume expands those traditional categories to include such concerns as gladiatorial-like boxing combats, investiture rites, trophy-head taking and display, dark shamanism, and the subjective pain inherent in acts of violence. Each author examines organized violence as a set of practices grounded in cultural understandings, even when the violence threatens the limits of those understandings. The authors scrutinize the representation of, and relationships between, different types of organized violence, as well as the implications of those activities, which can include the unexpected, such as violence as a means of determining and curing illness, and the use of violence in negotiation strategies.