Benedikt Feldges

American Icons (eBook, PDF)

The Genesis of a National Visual Language

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Despite the work that has been done on the power of visual communication in general, and about the social influence of television in particular, television's relationship with reality is still something of a black box. Even today, the convention that the screen functions as a window on reality structures much of the production and reception of televisual narratives. But as reality ought to become history at one point, what are we to do with such windows on the past?

Developing and applying a highly innovative approach to the modern picture, American Icons sets out to expose the historicity of icons, to reframe the history of the screen and to dissect the visual core of a medium that is still so poorly understood. Dismantling the aura of apparently timeless icons and past spectacles with their seductive power to attract the eye, this book offers new ways of seeing the mechanisms at work in our modern pictorial culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135911911
• Artikelnr.: 42983409

Autorenporträt

Benedikt Feldges currently works at the FEBL, Institute of Continuous Education, Kanton Baselland, in Switzerland.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part A: Icons in the Museum
Part B: Kaleidoscopic Spectacles
Part C: Hyperrealism
Appendix
Glossary: Four Codes of Visual Language
Notes
Listing of Sources
Bibliography