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The practice of light : a genealogy of visual technologies from prints to pixels / Sean Cubitt.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cubitt, Sean, 1953- author.
- Series:
- Leonardo.
- Leonardo
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art and technology.
- Visual perception.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 354 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2014]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- An account of Western visual technologies since the Renaissance traces a history of the increasing control of light's intrinsic excess.
- Contents:
- [black] 21
- Black Matters 21
- "Rembrandt," or, Invisibility 23
- The Night Watch 27
- Black as Ink 31
- Gray 35
- Virtual Black 42
- 2 Line 45
- Rays 45
- Diagramming Light 52
- Autonomy of the Line 60
- Mickey Mouse and the Maid of Corinth 64
- Dialectic of the Line 70
- Edge and Vector 74
- 3 Surface 79
- 3.1 Texture 80
- Mezzotint, Aquatint, Lithography 80
- Photography: Ansel Adams 83
- Halftone and Wire Photography 88
- Automation and Control 91
- The Raster Grid from CRT to Digital Projection 95
- CCD and CMOs 100
- The Politics of Number 104
- 3.2 Color 111
- Sensation 111
- Johannes de Eyck Fuit Hic 115
- Newton 120
- Goethe 126
- Charles Lock Eastlake and Industrial Chemistry 129
- Technicolor 132
- Chromolithography, Cartoons, and Childhood 136
- Ordering Color 138
- Digital Color 144
- 4 Space 153
- 4.1 Shadows 155
- Volume and Rim 155
- Chiaroscuro and Fetish 160
- CGI Shading 163
- Fog 165
- Cast Shadow 168
- Shadow Color 172
- 4.2 Layers 178
- Silhouettes 178
- Flats, and Mattes: Scenography in Theater and Film 181
- Pfeiffer, Edwards, Tabrizian 186
- Silkscreen 190
- 3D Cinema: Avatar and T-Visionarium 195
- Composites 199
- 4.3 Projection 202
- Flattening: Maps and Graphs 202
- Perspective and (Technological) Determinism 208
- Tutor-code and Lens 213
- Projection and Data Projection 217
- From Searchlight to Laser 221
- Cubism and the Voxel 226
- From Space to Time 233
- 5 Time 235
- Orders of Time 235
- The Photograph of Roland Barthes's Mother 236
- Intermittence and Continuity 240
- Latency in Digital and Analog Media 244
- MPEG-4 and Entropy 246
- Codec Wars 253
- Vector Aesthetics 257
- 6 Reflection 265
- Ancestors 265
- Communion as the End of Ethics 271
- A Note on the Title 273.
- Notes:
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 9780262326568
- 0262326566
- 9780262326575
- 0262326574
- OCLC:
- 891081313
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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