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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452252703321

Titolo

Interpreting visual culture : explorations in the hermeneutics of the visual / / edited by Ian Heywood and Barry Sandywell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1999

ISBN

1-134-72923-5

1-280-13981-1

0-203-98459-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (287 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HeywoodIan <1948->

SandywellBarry

Disciplina

111/.85

Soggetti

Aesthetics

Vision

Hermeneutics

Art - Philosophy

Art and society

Electronic books.

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 (p. 251-257) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminaries; CONTENTS; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Introduction; 1 The hermeneutics of seeing; 2 Specular grammar; 3 Bakhtin and the metaphorics of perception; 4 Durkheim's double vision; 5 Readers of the lost art; 6 Seeing becoming drawing; 7 The 'real realm'; 8 The denigration of vision and the renewal of painting; 9 My philosophical project and the empty jug; 10 'Ever more specific'; 11 Aporia of the sensible; Appendix: the original project; Select bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Interpreting Visual Culture brings together original writings from leading experts in art history, philosophy, sociology and cultural studies. Ranging from an analysis of the role of vision in current critical discourse to discussion of specific examples taken from the visual arts, ethics and sociology, it presents the latest material on the interpretation of the visual in modern culture.Among topics covered



are:* the visual rhetoric of modernity* the drawings of Bonnard* recent feminist art* practices and perception in arts and ethics.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797185103321

Titolo

Gettysburg replies : the world responds to Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg address / / Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation ; edited by Carla Knorowski, Ph.D. ; essay by Samuel R. Harris courtesy of Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Guilford, Connecticut : , : LP, , 2015

[Place of distribution not identified] : , : Distributed by National Book Network, , [date of distribution not identified]

©2015

ISBN

1-4930-2440-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Disciplina

973.7/349

973.7349

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

""PREFACE""; ""INTRODUCTION A Nation “At Risk��Lincoln�s World and Ours""; ""THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS IN LINCOLN�S HAND""; ""WALKING WITH LINCOLN""; ""LINCOLN AND EUREKA COLLEGE""; ""GREATER EFFORTS, GRANDER VICTORIES""; ""THE GETTYSBURG STORY""; ""A COMMON PATH TAKEN""; ""ON THE OCCASION OF THE GREAT LEAVING""; ""THE DARK HORSE CANDIDATE""; ""THE BUSINESS OF WORDS""; ""THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS: REWRITING AMERICA�S FOUNDATIONAL NARRATIVE""; ""TRUTH""; ""A POWERFUL REMINDER""; ""THE LONG MARCH""; ""GETTYSBURG ADDRESS""; ""OUR STRUGGLE WAS THEIR STRUGGLE""; ""REBUILD TOGETHER""

""ONE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY DAYS""""ON A POEM BY LINCOLN: “MY CHILDHOOD HOME I SEE AGAIN�""; ""LINCOLN�S WORLD LANGUAGE""; ""A NEW NATION""; ""THE CONCEPT OF ACCOUNTABILITY""; ""UNFINISHED WORK""; ""I AM A FOREIGNER"";



""OVERALLS""; ""OUR GREATEST TREASURE""; ""GETTYSBURG: REBIRTH OF THE REVOLUTION""; ""A NEW AMERICAN ANTHEM""; ""LINCOLN IN MEMORY AND MISSION""; ""THE UNFINISHED BUSINESS OF SLAVERY""; ""WILL AMERICA SACRIFICE AS IT DID IN THE CIVIL WAR?""; ""GETTYSBURG IS NOT ONLY IN PENNSYLVANIA""; ""WHAT WOULD MR. LINCOLN THINK?""; ""EQUAL OPPORTUNITY TO INFLUENCE""

""THE ENNOBLING UNIVERSAL PASSION""""CANVASSING THE VOTE""; ""THE BEST PLACE ON EARTH""; ""EACH MUST ENLIST""; ""FOOTSTEPS""; ""GETTYSBURG CALLS US TO OUR SOLEMN DUTY""; ""LONG REMEMBERED""; ""SAYING MUCH IN LITTLE""; ""NO GREATER WORDS""; ""HISTORY IS A CAUSE""; ""REPUBLICANISM RENEWED""; ""WORDS TO MUSIC""; ""CLARITY OF PURPOSE""; ""LINCOLN WALKING AT NIGHT""; ""“IN GOD WE TRUST�""; ""MYSTERY IN THE HISTORY OF THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS""; ""PHOTO ESSAY""; ""FOUR SCORE AND SEVEN LINCOLNS""; ""A LOOK AT A PEOPLE""; ""I HEARD LINCOLN DELIVER THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS""; ""FALLEN HEROES""

""FREEDOM: GIVEN BY GOD, DEFENDED BY MAN""""CONCEIVED IN LIBERTY""; ""A TIMELESS CALL TO ACTION""; ""IMMIGRATION TO AMERICA""; ""LINCOLN�S WORLD AND GETTYSBURG""; ""150TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS""; ""LEARNING FROM LINCOLN""; ""TRANSITION IN SOUTH AFRICA""; ""DEMOCRACY PERSISTS""; ""VISIONS OF LINCOLN: A CENTURY ON SCREEN""; ""MORE INFORMATION, LESS UNDERSTANDING""; ""REPLY""; ""BUILDING ON LINCOLN�S LEGACY""; ""ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND THE VITAL IMPORTANCE OF CIVIC EDUCATION""; ""PROUD DISCIPLES""; ""AN UNFINISHED MASTERPIECE""

""THE LONG SHADOW OF LINCOLN�S GETTYSBURG ADDRESS""""IN THE THROES OF DEMOCRACY""; ""LINCOLN IN THE WORLD""; ""REMEMBERING A SECOND BIRTH OF FREEDOM""; ""FATE AND CIRCUMSTANCE""; ""THE MARCH MUST CONTINUE""; ""THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE""; ""FINISHING THEIR WORK""; ""A CONTINUING OBLIGATION""; ""272 WORDS OF HOPE""; ""BATTLEFIELDS FOR EQUAL JUSTICE""; ""THE PROMISE OF GREATER ACCESS""; ""HUBRIS IN 272 WORDS""; ""10 SENTENCES, 4 CLAUSES""; ""DEMAND THE BEST""; ""A TIME-SENSITIVE DOCUMENT""; ""THE UNFINISHED WORK BEFORE US""; ""THE ATTRACTIVE VISION OF A BETTER WORLD""; ""GENEALOGY APOLOGY""

""THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE""

Sommario/riassunto

<span><span>An illustrated celebration of the "Gettysburg Address" from the Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, published to coincide with the 150th anniversary of Lincoln's assassination.</span></span><br /><span><span> </span></span>