From the lighthouse : interdisciplinary reflections on light / Edited by Veronica Strang, Tim Edensor and Joanna Puckering.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Edensor, Tim, 1957- editor.

Puckering, Joanna, editor.

Strang, Veronica, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lighthouses.

Light.

Light and darkness.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (319 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.

Summary:

What is a lighthouse? What does it mean? What does it do? This book shows how exchanging knowledge across disciplinary boundaries can transform our thinking. Adopting an unconventional structure, this book involves the reader in a multivocal conversation between scholars, poets and artists. Seen through their individual perspectives, lighthouses appear as signals of safety, beacons of enlightenment, phallic territorial markers, and memorials of historical relationships with the sea. However, the interdisciplinary conversation also reveals underlying and sometimes unexpected connections. It elucidates the human and non-human evolutionary adaptations that use light for signalling and warning; the visual languages created by regularity and synchronicity in pulses of light; how lighthouses have generated a whole 'family' of related material objects and technologies; and the way that light flows between social and material worlds.

Contents:

chapter 360° Of illumination / Veronica Strang

chapter Light Matters / Veronica Strang

chapter Light as a Matter of Life and Death / Veronica Strang

chapter On The Edge of The Dark / Veronica Strang

chapter Attractive and Repulsive Light / Veronica Strang

chapter Phenomenological Light / Veronica Strang

chapter Divine Rays / Veronica Strang

chapter Lighthouses in Time and Space / Veronica Strang

chapter Technologies of Light and Power / Tim Edensor

chapter Building The Lighthouse / Tim Edensor

chapter Material Relatives / Veronica Strang

chapter The Body of The Lighthouse / Veronica Strang

chapter Light Messages / Tim Edensor

chapter Space and Place / Tim Edensor

chapter The Art of Lighthouses / Veronica Strang Joanna Puckering Tim Edensor

chapter 360° / Veronica Strang

chapter Concluding Comments / Veronica Strang Tim Edensor Joanna Puckering.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-317-13162-2

1-315-58357-7

1-317-13161-4

9781315583570

OCLC:

1031870935