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Author
Whitney Davis
ISBN #
0253209889
Author
Whitney Davis
ISBN #
0253329191
Author
Whitney Davis
ISBN #
0271015241
Author
Whitney Davis
ISBN #
0271015233
Author
Whitney Davis
ISBN #
0520074882
Author
Whitney Davis
ISBN #
0916724913
The material history of wax is a history of disappearance—wax melts, liquefies, evaporates, and undergoes innumerable mutations. Wax is tactile, ambiguous, and mesmerizing, confounding viewers and scholars alike. It can approximate flesh with astonishing realism and has been used to create uncanny h...
Author
Roberta Panzanelli
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
336
Publisher
Getty Research Institute
ISBN #
0892368772
EAN Code
9780892368778
ISBN #
15
What is cultural about vision--or visual about culture? In this ambitious book, Whitney Davis provides new answers to these difficult and important questions by presenting an original framework for understanding visual culture. Grounded in the theoretical traditions of art history, A General Theory ...
Author
Whitney Davis
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
400
Publisher
Princeton University Press
ISBN #
0691147655
EAN Code
9780691147659
ISBN #
1
The twelve interdisciplinary essays collected here explore what Whitney Davis calls replication in archaeology, art history, and psychoanalysis-the sequential production of similar artifacts or images substitutable for one another in specific contexts of use. Davis suggests that while archaeology de...
Author
Whitney Davis
Binding
Paperback
Pages
368
Publisher
Pennsylvania State Univ Pr (Txt)
ISBN #
0271015241
EAN Code
9780271015248
ISBN #
13
"... a valuable scholarly addition to any student of Freud or as research material in a library." ―HNet, H-CAACADavis argues that the visual dimension of Freud’s writing is crucial to understanding its structure and significance. He offers a new and challenging reading of Freud’s case study of Serge...
Author
Whitney Davis
Binding
Paperback
Pages
290
Publisher
Indiana University Press
ISBN #
0253209889
EAN Code
9780253209887
ISBN #
4
The meaning of late prehistoric Egyptian images has until now been tantalizingly mysterious, as little understood as the circumstances of their production. As a result, analyses of these images have been general and often incorrectly illustrated. Whitney Davis now provides a welcome remedy in this d...
Author
Whitney Davis
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
318
Publisher
University of California Press
ISBN #
0520074882
EAN Code
9780520074880
ISBN #
10
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 imag...
Author
Whitney Davis
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
292
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN #
0521365902
EAN Code
9780521365901
ISBN #
9
Péter Forgács, based in Budapest, is best known for his award-winning films built on home movies from the 1930s to the 1960s that document ordinary lives soon to intersect with offscreen historical events. Cinema’s Alchemist offers a sustained exploration of the imagination and skill with which For...
Binding
Paperback
Pages
320
Publisher
Univ Of Minnesota Press
ISBN #
0816648751
EAN Code
9780816648757
ISBN #
7
The twelve interdisciplinary essays collected here explore what Whitney Davis calls replication in archaeology, art history, and psychoanalysis-the sequential production of similar artifacts or images substitutable for one another in specific contexts of use. Davis suggests that while archaeology de...
Author
Whitney Davis
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
352
Publisher
Pennsylvania State Univ Pr (Txt)
ISBN #
0271015233
EAN Code
9780271015231
ISBN #
5