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Title: Good Looking: Essays on the Virtue of Images by Barbara Maria Stafford ISBN: 0-262-69210-4 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 06 February, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Summary: The most important thesis in the visual arts this decade!
Comment: "Americans are like fish that can't see water."(Groth 1997, in Understanding Ordinary Landscapes) A further contemporary and obsolete view of the image in culture is: "We can... be beguiled by sight: The eye may be less reliable than the mind, or even the heart." (King 1997)
Barbara Stafford, in Good Looking: Essays on the Virtue of Images, has indicated the need for a manifesto and the structure for a praxis with a positive, embryological approach in this foggy and contentious area of the visual arts.
"Today's instructional landscape must inevitably evolve or die, like biological species, since its environment is being radically altered by volatile visualization technologies. This ongoing displacement of fixed, monochromatic type by interactive, multidimensional graphics is a tumultuous process. In the realm of the artificial, as in nature, extinction occurs when there is no accommodation. Imaginative adaptation to the information superhighway, even the survival of reflective communication, means casting off vestigial biases automatically coupling printed words to introspective depth and pictures to dumbing down."
I am reminded that: "Hypertext is, before anything else, a visual form." (Joyce 1995) An image, or hypertext, response in design, or "hyperdesign" (Hotten 1998) is an indicated, yet mysteriously missing, part of the eidetic palette in design and the visual arts.
Gates and Getty are speculating on the value of the image. Both are assembling image data banks with hundreds of millions of images. In the future, who will copyright the image rights to the landscape and what will this mean to the culture versus nature discourse? Will the fish even be allowed to see the water?
Copyright Robert Hotten 1999
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Title: Visual Analogy: Consciousness as the Art of Connecting by Barbara Maria Stafford ISBN: 0262692678 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Body Criticism: Imaging the Unseen in Enlightenment Art and Medicine by Barbara Maria Stafford ISBN: 0262691655 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 13 August, 1993 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Artful Science: Enlightenment Entertainment and the Eclipse of Visual Education by Barbara Maria Stafford ISBN: 0262691817 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 28 February, 1996 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: The Object Stares Back: On the Nature of Seeing by James Elkins ISBN: 0156004976 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: August, 1997 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Visual Studies: A Skeptical Introduction by James Elkins ISBN: 0415966817 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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