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The Degraded Iconicity of the Icon. The Icon’s Materiality and Mechanical Reproduction

IKON, 2016
The Degraded Iconicity of the Icon addresses the challenges facing the traditional doctrine of the icon in a society subsumed by a profane attitude towards the image, and the problems raised by the use of icon reproductions within the liturgical context of the Eastern Orthodox Church.
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Reflections on icons

Proceedings 1993 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages, 2002
This paper discusses the design of icons as tools for improving visual interface usability. No common accepted definition of 'usability' exists: hence we operationally define it in terms of a number of operator's goals. We next derive the constraints and requirements necessary for achieving such usability, including both the designer and the user's ...
Stefano Levialdi   +3 more
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Icone, Icons

2021
Il libro Gioielli Italiani ha l'obiettivo di restituire la complessità del gioiello attraverso molteplici punti di vista, dove l'antico dialoga con il contemporaneo e i capolavori del passato affiancano quelli realizzati con le tecnologie del futuro.
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Icons: the making, meaning and undoing of urban icons and iconic cities

Planning Perspectives, 2016
This is a conference report on the 13th Australasian Urban History/Planning History Conference.
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Images and icons

Nature Nanotechnology, 2010
Nanoscale objects cannot be seen in the traditional sense, but that should not stop us from thinking about how we visualize the nanoworld, as Chris Toumey reports.
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Icons in Surgery

Archives of Surgery, 1992
This company of surgeons, the Pacific Coast Surgical Association, has honored me greatly, and I am grateful. In a turbulent, changing world, as physicians, you are among the most important people on earth. More important, by far, than any technologic aspect of your craft, is your character. As the pen is mightier than the sword, your beliefs and values
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The new icons – icons of change?

English Today, 1994
An examination of a new sense of the word ‘icon’ and the changes it might foreshadow in everyday thought and ...
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Iconic features

Natural Language Semantics, 2014
Sign languages are known to display the same general grammatical properties as spoken languages (‘Universal Grammar’), but also to make greater use of iconic mechanisms. In Schlenker et al.’s ‘Iconic Variables’ (Linguist Philos 36(2):91–149, 2013), it was argued that loci (= positions in signing space corresponding to discourse referents) can have an ...
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Peirce on icons and iconicity

Abstract The concept of icon has its foundation in the semiotics of C.S. Peirce. According to Peirce, a sign represents a material or mental object and creates a so-called interpretant in an interpreter’s mind. In contrast to a symbol, which needs to be learned, and an index, which is related to its object spatially or causally, an ...
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