Darwin's camera [[electronic resource] ] : art and photography in the theory of evolution / / Phillip Prodger

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910780433503321
• Autore: Prodger Phillip
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009
• ISBN: 0-19-988216-9; 1-282-38054-0; 9786612380549; 0-19-972230-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (511 p.)
• Disciplina: 704.9/495; 778.93
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Timeline; Contents; Preface; Photographic plates from Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872); Introduction; 1. Darwin's Art Collection; 2. Illustration and Illusion; 3. Art, Experience, and Observation; 4. Darwin and the Passions; 5. Photography and Evolution Meet; 6. Method to Their Madness; 7. Laughing and Crying; 8. Darwin's Eyes and Ears; 9. Darwin's Art Photographer; 10. Rejlander's Performances; 11. Alice, Eugenics, and the Spirit World; Appendix: "Odd Odds and Ends" by Oscar Rejlander; Notes; Selected Bibliography; AcknowledgmentsIndex; Picture Credits
• Sommario/riassunto: Darwin's Camera tells the extraordinary story of how Charles Darwin changed the way pictures are seen and made. In his illustrated masterpiece, Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1871), Darwin introduced the idea of using photographs to illustrate a scientific theory--his was the first photographically illustrated science book ever published. Using photographs to depict fleeting expressions of emotion--laughter, crying, anger, and so on--as they flit across a person's face, he managed to produce dramatic images at a time when photography was famously slow and awkward. The book desc

South-Indian Horizons : Felicitation volume for François Gros on the occasion of his 70th birthday / / Jean-Luc Chevillard, Eva Wilden

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910559701003321
• Autore: Agesthialingom S
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Pondichéry, : Institut Français de Pondichéry, 2020
• ISBN: 979-1-03-655621-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (698 p.)
• Collana: Collection Indologie
• Altri autori (Persone): AnnamalaiE; AsherR.E; BegleyVimala; BopearachchiOsmund; ChevillardJean-Luc; DelamourdChantal; DubyanskiA.M; EbelingSascha; Ferro-LuzziGabriella Eichinger; Gopal IyerT.V; GrosFrançois; HartGeorge L; KappDieter B; LehmannThomas; MKannan; Mகண்ணன்; MahadevanIravatham; MenonA.G; MurugaiyanAppasamy; NagaswamyR; Narayana RaoVelcheru; NiklasUlrike; OrrLeslie C; PalaniappanS; PanattoniEmanuela; PollockSheldon; SchalkPeter; SchiffmanHarold F; ShulmanDavid; SubbarayaluY; SubrahmanyamSanjay; SubramoniamV.I; TakahashiTakanobu; TiekenHerman; TörzsökJudit; VacekJaroslav; VeluppillaiAlvappillai; VeluthatKesavan; VenkatachalapathyA.R; VijayavenugopalG; Viswanathan PetersonIndira; wildenEva; ZvelebilKamil; WildenEva
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume, a tribute to François Gros and a celebration of the field of Tamil studies, demonstrates the international nature of this area and its wide range of topics. The contributors stem from sixteen different countries. They are literary historians and critics, philologists, linguists, cultural anthropologists, political and social historians, archaeologists, epigraphists, numismatists, art and architecture historians, some of them assuming two of these guises, and some having an interest in related languages: Irula, Kannada, Malayalam and Telugu. However there is much linkage and this "connexité dans la diversité" binds the different contributions together. François Gros has been the principal standard-bearer for Tamil studies in France. He has also devoted himself to the re-establishment of the École Française d’Extrême-Orient in countries of Southeast Asia. Among his other responsibilities has been the directorship for Tamil studies at the Institut Français in Pondicherry. Ce volume, hommage à François Gros et célébration du champ des études tamoules, montre la nature internationale de ce domaine et sa largeur. Les participants proviennent de 16 pays. Les disciplines concernées sont : histoire et critique littéraire, philologie, linguistique, anthropologie culturelle, histoire politique et sociale, archéologie, épigraphie, numismatique, histoire de l’art et de l’architecture. Certaines des contributions sont à cheval entre elles, et certaines concernent des langues voisines : Irula, Kannada, Malayalam et Telugu, tandis qu’une “connexité dans la diversité” fait l’unité du volume. François Gros a été le principal représentant des études tamoules en France. Il s’est également consacré, comme directeur, à la réinstallation de l’École Française d’Extrême-Orient dans les pays d’Asie du Sud-Est. Il a aussi été responsable scientifique de la section de tamoul à l’Institut Français de Pondichéry.