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Author : John Baines
Release : 1991
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Book Synopsis Rezension von "The canonical tradition in ancient Egyptian art" [von Whitney Davis] by : John Baines
Download or read book Rezension von "The canonical tradition in ancient Egyptian art" [von Whitney Davis] written by John Baines. This book was released on 1991. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Whitney M. Davis
Release : 1991
Genre : Art, Ancient
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Book Synopsis The Canonical Tradition in Ancient Egyptian Art by : Whitney M. Davis
Download or read book The Canonical Tradition in Ancient Egyptian Art written by Whitney M. Davis. This book was released on 1991. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Whitney M. Davis
Release : 1985
Genre : Art, Ancient
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Download or read book The Canonical Tradition in Ancient Egyptian Art written by Whitney M. Davis. This book was released on 1985. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Whitney Davis
Release : 1990-01-26
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis The Canonical Tradition in Ancient Egyptian Art by : Whitney Davis
Download or read book The Canonical Tradition in Ancient Egyptian Art written by Whitney Davis. This book was released on 1990-01-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the beginning of Egyptian dynastic history (c. 3000 BC), Egyptian artists worked within a set of specific rules for image making. The system was established in order to depict and to justify the ambitions of the ancient Egyptian elite, and was so successful that virtually no other forms of image making survive in the archaeological record. This book describes the rules for making correct canonical images at the levels of technique and subject matter, and explores the way in which these rules were expressed and transmitted from artist to artist over 3,000 years. Although it uses up-to-date visual and archaeological data, it presumes no specific knowledge of ancient Egypt and aims to introduce the fundamentals of Egyptian art to readers with general interests in Egyptian art, history and archaeology.
Author : Whitney Davis
Release : 2022-06-14
Genre : Art
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Book Synopsis Visuality and Virtuality by : Whitney Davis
Download or read book Visuality and Virtuality written by Whitney Davis. This book was released on 2022-06-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative and challenging new conceptual framework for the study of images This book builds on the groundbreaking 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 revealing archaeological and historical case studies to further develop his theory, presenting an exacting new account of the interaction that occurs when a viewer looks at a picture. Davis argues that pictoriality—the depiction intended by its maker to be seen—emerges at a particular standpoint in space and time. Reconstruction of this standpoint is the first step of the art historian’s craft. Because standpoints are inherently mutable and mobile, pictoriality constantly shifts in form and possible meaning. To capture this complexity, Davis develops new concepts of radical pictorial ambiguity, including “bivisibility” (the fact that pictures can always be seen in ways other than intended), pictorial naturalism, and the behavior of pictures under changing angles of view. He then applies these concepts to four cases—Paleolithic cave painting; ancient Egyptian tomb decoration; classical Greek architectural sculpture, with a focus on the Parthenon frieze; and Renaissance perspective as invented by Brunelleschi. A profound new theory of the work of both makers and viewers by one of the discipline’s most esteemed and engaged thinkers, Visuality and Virtuality is essential reading for art historians, architects, archaeologists, and philosophers of art and visual theory.
