Objects of vision : making sense of what we see / A. Joan Saab.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Saab, A. Joan, author.

Series:

Perspectives on sensory history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Visual perception.

Art--Psychological aspects.

Art.

Physical Description:

xv, 150 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm.

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2020]

Summary:

"Examines a series of linked case studies that not only highlight moments of seeming disconnect between seeing and believing, including hoaxes, miracles, spirit paintings, manipulated photographs, and holograms, but also offer a sensory history of ways of seeing"-- Provided by publisher.

"Advances in technology allow us to see the invisible: fetal heartbeats, seismic activity, cell mutations, virtual space. Yet in an age when experience is so intensely mediated by visual records, the realization that knowledge gained through sight is inherently fallible takes on troubling new dimensions. This book considers the ways in which seeing, over time, has become the foundation for what we think we know. Through a series of linked case studies that highlight moments of seeming disconnect between seeing and believing--hoaxes, miracles, spirit paintings, manipulated photographs, and holograms, to name a few--A. Joan Saab interrogates the relationship between "visions" and visuality. Accessibly written and thoroughly enlightening, Objects of Vision is a concise history of the connections between seeing and knowing that will appeal to students and teachers of visual studies and sensory, social, and cultural history."--back cover.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. The Persistence Of Miraculous Vision

2. Technological Vision: Hoaxes And The Desire To Believe

3. Camera Vision And The Quest For Indexical Truths

4. Untitled: Postmodern Vision And The Triumph Of The Pseudo-Event.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [131]-144) and index.

ISBN:

9780271088105

0271088109

OCLC:

1141152612