Eyewitnessing: The Uses of Images as Historical Evidence: Picturing History
Autor Peter Burkeen Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 feb 2014
Eyewitnessing evaluates the place of images among other kinds of historical evidence. By reviewing the many varieties of images by region, period and medium, and looking at the pragmatic uses of images (e.g. the Bayeux Tapestry, an engraving of a printing press, a reconstruction of a building), Peter Burke sheds light on our assumption that these practical uses are 'reflections' of specific historical meanings and influences. He also shows how this assumption can be problematic.
Traditional art historians have depended on two types of analysis when dealing with visual imagery: iconography and iconology. Burke describes and evaluates these approaches, concluding that they are insufficient. Focusing instead on the medium as message and on the social contexts and uses of images, he discusses both religious images and political ones, also looking at images in advertising and as commodities.
Ultimately, Burke's purpose is to show how iconographic and post-iconographic methods – psychoanalysis, semiotics, viewer response, deconstruction – are both useful and problematic to contemporary historians.
Traditional art historians have depended on two types of analysis when dealing with visual imagery: iconography and iconology. Burke describes and evaluates these approaches, concluding that they are insufficient. Focusing instead on the medium as message and on the social contexts and uses of images, he discusses both religious images and political ones, also looking at images in advertising and as commodities.
Ultimately, Burke's purpose is to show how iconographic and post-iconographic methods – psychoanalysis, semiotics, viewer response, deconstruction – are both useful and problematic to contemporary historians.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781861892652
ISBN-10: 1861892659
Pagini: 240
Ilustrații: 82 halftones
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Ediția:2005 Paper Edition
Editura: REAKTION BOOKS
Colecția Reaktion Books
Seria Picturing History
Locul publicării:United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1861892659
Pagini: 240
Ilustrații: 82 halftones
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Ediția:2005 Paper Edition
Editura: REAKTION BOOKS
Colecția Reaktion Books
Seria Picturing History
Locul publicării:United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Peter Burke is professor of cultural history at the University of Cambridge, UK. His books include What is Cultural History? and Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe.
Recenzii
"Provides us with a compendium . . . which continues the long process of restoring the balance between written documentation and optical representation as carriers of historical information. . . . A thoroughly engrossing explication of how fine art, graphics, photographs, film and other media can be used to make sense of lives lived out in other times."
"Well-informed and fair-minded, and it prompts one to ponder."