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Wandering towards Bruno: synderesis and “synthetic intuition”
Aisthesis, 2015 Focusing on the faculty of intuition, my essay considers different ways that Aby Warburg (1866-1929) and Erwin Panofsky (1892-1968) interpret the late Renaissance cosmographer, Giordano Bruno. It argues that Warburg, in the last year of his life and with
Christopher D. Johnson
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Montage as a gesture of mediation and education
Film Education Journal, 2023 Combining images, comparing and linking them in chains, clusters and texts is a cultural practice that was not invented with digitisation. It dates back to the nineteenth century, when the invention of photography facilitated the task of copying ...
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Towards an-iconology: the image as environment
Screen, 2020 This essay describes the evolution of what I term the ‘environmentalization’ of the image, especially in the context of various historical instantiations that have culminated in the contemporary virtual dispositif known as the head-mounted display (HMD).
A. Pinotti
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Phytomorphic Elements of Embroidery from Cuetzalan, Puebla: Iconological Analysis
ArtsThis article analyzes the symbolism of the phytomorphic motif of the mountain vine in the traditional embroidery of Cuetzalan, made by the Nahua women of the Masehual Siuamej Mosenyolchicauani collective.
Reyna I. Rumbo-Morales +7 more
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The criterion of simplicity in interpretation [PDF]
Journal of Art Historiography, 2011 The paper highlights the main features of Ernst Gombrich’s approach to the explication and to the interpretation of Renaissance works. These features are oriented to Karl Popper’s critical rationalism: a strong simplicity that distinguishes him from the ...
Giuseppe Barbieri
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Quêtes Littéraires, 2015 Roland Barthes was not only a literary theorist, a critic or a semiotician. Above all, he was concerned with signs, symbols and representations which shape the everyday life and nourish both identities of the individual subject and the social group.
Khalid Lyamlahy
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Визуальная теологияThe iconography of the Pietà is traditionally rooted back to the Vesperbild. Such an approach is not entirely correct. Panofsky proposes two types of the Italian Pietà: Pietà-Nordica which is a Mary-centered composition (iconographically indeed referring
Ekaterina Iakovleva / Екатерина Владимировна Яковлева
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Iconics: Icon Evolution in Digitality
tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, 2010 Image manipulation, archiving, and sharing are all critical technological aspects of Western culture and postmodern civilization. Consequently, creation, identification, dissemination, and proliferation of powerful images across media channels today ...
Steven John Thompson
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Lamp as a symbol in theology and iconology of light in the Mediterranean [PDF]
Zbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u Prištini, 2018 Light and fire have been a part of the religious experience since the dawn of civilization, its cultic use can be traced back to as early as the Paleolithic.
Tešić-Radovanović Danijela T.
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Aisthesis, 2011 Partiendo de las evidencias icónicas del rasgo predatorio y sus equivalentes narrativos presentes en diferentes piezas de la cultura mochica, el texto busca establecer (i) una metodología de aproximación al sacrificio caníbal que tenga en cuenta diversas
Adolfo Chaparro Amaya
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