scholarly journals Il patrimonio fotografico Alinari: excursus storico e questioni attuali

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (10) ◽  
pp. 100-120
Author(s):  
Luigi Tomassini
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Over Time

Following the purchase by the Regione Toscana (2019), various possibilities arise for the reorganization and cultural destination of the Alinari photographic heritage. The essay outlines a historical excursus intended to illustrate the methods, phases and type of materials with which such an important archival-museum complex has been formed over time, always playing, in different ways, a particularly important role in Italian and international visual culture.

The Changing Place of Non-human Animals in Finnish Society: A Visual Account

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Pauliina Raento
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Visual Culture ◽  
Longitudinal Data ◽  
Animal Studies ◽  
Postage Stamp ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Human Animal ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Changes Over Time ◽  
Over Time

Abstract Postage stamp imagery reveals how humans see other animals in their society; how this relationship changes over time; and in particular political, economic, and cultural contexts; and what the stamp-issuing state wishes to communicate to its citizens. A qualitative mixed-methods exploration of this overlooked, easily accessible visual data identifies trends and representative examples of human-animal relations in Finnish society during the country’s independence (1917-2016). The empirical discussion strengthens method(olog)ical discussion on visual culture and data in animal studies. The examination shows the value of systematic longitudinal data, the inclusion of both consumer and producer perspectives in the analysis, and engagement with scholarly debates outside animal studies.

Manifestations of Power and Visual Culture: Some Examples in Extremaduran Mudejar Architecture

2006 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 341-359 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Pilar Mogollón Cano-Cortés
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Visual Culture ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
Christian Culture ◽  
Santa Maria ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Spanish Region

AbstractThis essay treats mudejar architecture in the Spanish region of Extremadura as an expression of coexistence, convergence, and conflict between Christian and Islamic societies. Specifically, it centers on two Extremaduran churches, Santa María in Badajoz and Nuestra Señora de la Concepción in Hornachos, each borne out of a different historical and political situation. These two cases demonstrate that initially the use of Islamic elements in Christian buildings served to reflect the power of the monarchy and of the victorious society on the built environment, but that over time those same forms became an integral part of Christian culture.

Patron's review. The role of images in the development of Renaissance natural history

2011 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sachiko Kusukawa
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Visual Culture ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
History Of ◽  
Important Means ◽  
Over Time

This review surveys recent scholarship on the history of natural history with special attention to the role of images in the Renaissance. It discusses how classicism, collecting and printing were important catalysts for the Renaissance study of nature. Classicism provided inspiration of how to study and what kind of object to examine in nature, and several images from the period can be shown to reflect these classical values. The development of the passion for collecting and the rise of commerce in nature's commodities led to the circulation of a large number of exotic flora and fauna. Pictures enabled scholars to access unobtainable objects, build up knowledge of rare objects over time, and study them long after the live specimens had died away. Printing replicated pictures alongside texts and enabled scholars to share and accumulate knowledge. Images, alongside objects and text, were an important means of studying nature. Naturalists' images, in turn, became part of a larger visual culture in which nature was regarded as a beautiful and fascinating object of admiration.

The Visual Culture of Revelation: Visions and the Images that Reveal Them

2021 ◽  
pp. 002114002110176
Author(s):  
David Morgan
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Direct Observation ◽  
Visual Interpretation ◽  
Visual Form ◽  
Devotional Practice ◽  
Visual Process ◽  
History Of ◽  
Scholarly Inquiry ◽  
Over Time

It is often thought that since remote, rare, and ephemeral events such as apparitions are not available to the direct observation of scholars, the question of their nature as events must be set aside in scholarly inquiry. This results in a focus on meaning that can ignore the qualities of the event as reported and as apprehended by devotional imagery that emerges over time to provide access to the event and its relevance for devotional practice. It also encourages concepts of revelation that are not able to consider the event as a visual form of experience and regard revelation itself as something that must be either true or false. This essay proceeds otherwise, arguing that revelation is not a single, closed event, but an ongoing visual process in which sketchy schemata interact with fixed imagery to interpret the event in an ongoing history of iconography and visual interpretation. The essay focuses on the visuality of devotion to Our Lady of Fátima as a case study in how seeing works and imagery functions to make revelation a visual process whose devotional life is ongoing.

scholarly journals Contested Images: Debates on Nudity, Sexism, and Porn in The Body Politic, 1971–1987

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Carlos Mezo González
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Community Building ◽  
Body Politic ◽  
The Body ◽  
Gay And Lesbian ◽  
Oral Histories ◽  
Gay Community ◽  
Building Project ◽  
Over Time

This article examines debates on nudity, sexism, and pornography in the Canadian gay and lesbian newspaper The Body Politic, tracing its use of images and people’s responses to them over time. In the 1970s, concerns about sexism and the objectification of the body shaped discussions over sexual and erotic imagery. In the 1980s concerns about pornography were more current, since they mirrored the then-contemporary debates over pornography and censorship. Drawing upon archival sources and oral histories, the article argues that TBP’s visual culture—particularly its sexual and erotic imagery—played a key role in the paper’s community-building project. The article also shows how responses to images reflect a deep ambivalence, and the conflicting perspectives shaping the paper’s production and reception. While liberationist politics, feminist theory, and ideas of a “gay community” influenced the paper throughout the 1970s and 1980s, the meanings that people ascribed to such concepts were diverse and sometimes incompatible.

The Icon

2021 ◽  
pp. 58-74
Author(s):  
Rebecca W. Corrie
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Byzantine Empire ◽  
Anthropological Theory ◽  
History Of ◽  
Byzantine Period ◽  
Byzantine Icons ◽  
Iconoclastic Controversy ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Early Byzantine

Perhaps no form of visual culture is more closely associated with the history and religious life of the Byzantine Empire than the painted icon. Known from the Early Byzantine period in encaustic images, its theological and liturgical functions are usually understood in light of theory that emerged in the wake of the Iconoclastic Controversy. As the imprinting of sacred form on matter, icons provide access to the sacred. Although often characterized as static and unchanging, they were produced in a variety of media, and over time new formats and new image types appeared. Recent discussions of Byzantine icons have successfully employed anthropological theory. Continued investigation of the reception of icons beyond the empire’s borders will similarly illuminate the history of their meaning and form.

scholarly journals Education Through TIME: Representations of U.S. Education on TIME Magazine Covers

AERA Open ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 233285842096111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dani Kachorsky ◽  
Stephanie F. Reid ◽  
Kathryn Chapman
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Visual Culture ◽  
Time Magazine ◽  
Magazine Covers ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Education Stakeholders

This study examined how TIME Magazine has visually represented and communicated ideas about education from TIME Magazine’s inception in 1923 through 2019. Drawing on theories of visual culture and social semiotic approaches to multimodality, the researchers conducted a qualitative multimodal content analysis of 115 covers that featured content related to education and schooling. The findings included (a) names and places are used to suggest authority, power, or relevance in education circles; (b) learning and schooling are presented as having not changed over time; (c) overgeneralized and metonymic representations can stand for broad categories of education stakeholders; (d) schools are presented as in need of fixing; and (e) schools are perceived as sites for larger, sociopolitical debates.

scholarly journals REVIVIENDO A SHAKESPEARE: RETOS Y MONTAJES

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Remedios Perni Llorente
Keyword(s):  
William Shakespeare ◽  
Visual Culture ◽  
Western Culture ◽  
Roland Barthes ◽  
Critical Practice ◽  
Death Of The Author ◽  
Over Time

Resumen: Cuando, en 1968, Roland Barthes anunció la muerte del Autor, muchos críticos propusieron liberar la crítica de la tiranía autoral y sus inescrutables intenciones. Sin embargo, Shakespeare -o por lo menos su halo espectral- se mantiene omnipresente en la cultura occidental. La cultura visual -la pintura, el cine, los pósters- mantiene “viva” la imagen de Shakespeare, mientras que la idea de “autenticidad” continúa siendo la causa de acalorados debates. ¿Qué queremos decir hoy día cuando nombramos a Shakespeare? ¿Es posible revivirlo? Cierta creencia nostálgica todavía mantiene que cualquier Shakespeare pasado fue mejor, mientras que otras perspectivas apoyan la posibilidad de que Shakespeare se recicle con el tiempo. Título en inglés: “Reviving Shakespeare: remains and montages”Abstract: When, in 1968, Roland Barthes announced the death of the Author, many critics proposed freeing critical practice from the authorial tyranny and its inscrutable intentions. Nonetheless, Shakespeare -or at least his ghostly halo- maintains an all-pervading presence in Western Culture. Visual culture -paintings, films, posters- keeps Shakespeare’s image “alive,” while the idea of “authenticity” continues being the source of over-heated debates. What do we mean today when we name William Shakespeare? Is it possible to revive Shakespeare? Certain nostalgic belief still stands that any Shakespeare past was better, whereas other perspectives support the ability to recycle the Shakespearean image over time.

Glancing Blows, Crossing Boundaries: From Local to Global in the Company of Afghan Women

2015 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 233-251
Author(s):  
Holly Edwards
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Visual Culture ◽  
Afghan Women ◽  
Female Beauty ◽  
Political Purpose ◽  
Public Persona ◽  
Over Time

Photography has complicated Afghan visual culture considerably since its introduction in Kabul at the turn of the twentieth century, destabilizing normative convictions about who can be seen and by whom. In effect, Afghan women became visible, extricated from socially mandated invisibility by means of the camera. Transgressive images in some contexts and compelling icons in others, widely disseminated portraits entailed power and risk in the cracks between people, classes, cultures, and nations. This essay tracks the agency of images and image-making in these interstitial spaces, thereby exploring the aesthetics of social change. It begins with Queen Soraya, who willingly colluded in crafting a public persona for herself as she traveled through Europe on Afghanistan’s diplomatic mission of 1926; the argument ends with Vida Samadzai, who chose to participate in the Miss Earth competition of 2003. Both women deployed their own visibility for political purpose, behaving against the grain of normative behaviors in their own country but capitalizing on the consumption of female beauty abroad. In the intervening decades, the boundaries between nations were increasingly perforated by peripatetic images, blurring differences between previously discrete visualities. This study thus maps the helix by which the local and the global interact generatively over time. 


Social transmission bias and the cultural evolution of folk-economic beliefs

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Hirshleifer ◽  
Siew Hong Teoh
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Evolution ◽  
Social Transmission ◽  
Cognitive Approach ◽  
Economic Problems ◽  
Economic Attitudes ◽  
The Social ◽  
Economic Beliefs ◽  
Over Time

AbstractEvolved dispositions influence, but do not determine, how people think about economic problems. The evolutionary cognitive approach offers important insights but underweights the social transmission of ideas as a level of explanation. The need for asocialexplanation for the evolution of economic attitudes is evidenced, for example, by immense variations in folk-economic beliefs over time and across individuals.

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