艺术史
Illusions in Motion
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Erkki Huhtamo publishing house: The MIT Press 2013 - 2
Beginning in the late eighteenth century, huge circular panoramas presented their audiences with resplendent representations that ranged from historic battles to exotic locations. Such panoramas were immersive but static. There were other panoramas that moved--hundreds, and probably thousands of them. Their history has been largely forgotten. In Illusions in Motion, Erkki Huhtamo excavates this neglected early manifestation of media culture in the making. The moving panorama was a long painting that unscrolled behind a "window" by means of a mechanical cranking system, accompanied by a lecture, music, and sometimes sound and light effects. Showmen exhibited such panoramas in venues that ranged from opera houses to church halls, creating a market for mediated realities in both city and country. In the first history of this phenomenon, Huhtamo analyzes the moving panorama in all its complexity, investigating its relationship to other media and its role in the culture of its time. In his telling, the panorama becomes a window for observing media in operation. Huhtamo explores such topics as cultural forms that anticipated the moving panorama; theatrical panoramas; the diorama; the "panoramania" of the 1850s and the career of Albert Smith, the most successful showman of that era; competition with magic lantern shows; the final flowering of the panorama in the late nineteenth century; and the panorama's afterlife as a topos, traced through its evocation in literature, journalism, science, philosophy, and propaganda.
摄影小史
A History of Photography Douban
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[德]瓦尔特·本雅明 translator: 许绮玲 / 林志明 publishing house: 广西师范大学出版社 2018 - 1
全书共收入瓦尔特·本雅明于20世纪30年代写就的《摄影小史》(1931)、《机械复制时代的艺术作品》(1936)、《绘画与摄影》(1936)和《法国国家图书馆中国画展》(1938)4篇论文。 其中,《摄影小史》和《机械复制时代的艺术作品》均为本雅明享誉世界的佳作名篇。作为对摄影、电影的批评实践中的丰碑,它们不仅为人们理解这两个媒介提供了一种全新且富于启发的视角,对尼塞福尔·尼埃普斯(Nicéphore Niépce)、欧仁·阿特热(Eugène Atget)乃至奥古斯特·桑德(August Sander)这样的摄影先驱及他们的美学、技术成就做出了令人印象深刻的评判,也极为深入地讨论了摄影、电影与绘画之间纠缠不清、若即若离的关系。
云的理论
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[法] 于贝尔•达米施 Hubert Damisch translator: 董强 publishing house: 江苏美术出版社 2014 - 3
从中世纪一直到19世纪末,云一直弥漫着西方绘画的天空。它并非单单是一个描绘性的主题,还是一个绘画符号学的因素,它的功能随着时代的变化而变化。最初,它被用来使神圣事物出现在现实中(基督升天、神秘主义幻象等等),其作用正如戏剧中的机械道具;在文艺复兴时期,它的功能变得模棱两可,因为当时透视模式开始起调节作用。在这一背景下,云的作用是遮掩住无法表现的无穷,同时它又指示无穷。这样就保证了一种跟科学条件紧密联系在一起的绘画机制的悖论式均衡。 本书通过对符号能指/云/的不同功能的清点,将传统上归于艺术的领域与职能,重新分配给处于表现结构中的科学与意识形态,其真正的目的是要使艺术史重新找回它的体系性与物质性。 名人推荐 这本出版于1972年的艺术史专著,首次尝试完全用符号学理论来研究自文艺复兴以来的透视法发展。至今,它在许多方面仍极具挑战性。本书绝没有过时,它仍旧是一部杰作,并以一种系统化的互动方式触及了西方传统中那些最为重要的特征。 ——斯蒂芬•巴恩,英国布里斯托尔大学 和那些从事当代艺术史研究的符号学狂热分子相比,达米施的治学态度执着而认真,他希望严肃对待这一问题。也许,在《透视的起源》和《云的理论》出版之前,我们还不知道如何用符号学理论来研究艺术史,但现在我们再也没有借口回避它了。 ——伊恩•沃尔斯特根,美国乔治亚大学,载麻省理工大学《艺术与科学技术学刊》