Tag: Picturing

Free Download Christine Göttler, "Landscape and Earth in Early Modernity: Picturing Unruly Nature "
English | ISBN: 9463729437 | 2022 | 426 pages | PDF | 8 MB
Early modern views of nature and the earth upended the depiction of land. Landscape emerged as a site of artistic exploration at a time when environments and ecologies were reshaped and transformed. This volume historicizes the contingency of an ever-changing elemental world, reframing and reimagining landscape as a mediating space in the interplay between the natural and the artificial, the real and the imaginary, the internal and the external. The lens of the "unruly" reveals the latent landscapes that undergirded their conception, the elemental resources that resurfaced from the bowels of the earth, the staged topographies that unsettled the boundaries between nature and technology, and the fragile ecologies that undermined the status quo of human environs. Landscape and Earth in Early Modernity: Picturing Unruly Nature argues for an art history attentive to the vicissitudes of circumstance and attributes the regrounding of representation during a transitional age to the unquiet landscape.

Free Download Derrick Price, "Coal Cultures: Picturing Mining Landscapes and Communities "
English | ISBN: 1350037834 | 2018 | 216 pages | AZW3 | 3 MB
Coal is the commodity that powered the technologies that made the modern world. It also brought about unique communities marked by a high degree of social solidarity and self-help. Mining was central to working class life, drawing rural populations into industrial labour, but it often took place in picturesque landscapes, so that its black spoil heaps became a central symbol of the degradation of pastoral life by the demands of an extractive industry.

Free Download Janice Carlisle, "Picturing Reform in Victorian Britain "
English | ISBN: 052186836X | 2012 | 290 pages | PDF | 22 MB
How did Victorians, as creators and viewers of images, visualize the politics of franchise reform? This study of Victorian art and parliamentary politics, specifically in the 1840s and 1860s, answers that question by viewing the First and Second Reform Acts from the perspectives offered by Ruskin’s political theories of art and Bagehot’s visual theory of politics. Combining subjects and approaches characteristic of art history, political history, literary criticism, and cultural critique, Picturing Reform in Victorian Britain treats both paintings and wood engravings, particularly those published in Punch and the Illustrated London News. Carlisle analyzes unlikely pairings – a novel by Trollope and a painting by Hayter, an engraving after Leech and a high-society portrait by Landseer – to argue that such conjunctions marked both everyday life in Victorian Britain and the nature of its visual politics as it was manifested in the myriad heterogeneous and often incongruous images of illustrated journalism.

Free Download Mark W. Sullivan, "Picturing Thoreau: Henry David Thoreau in American Visual Culture"
English | ISBN: 1498511031 | 2017 | 240 pages | EPUB | 11 MB

Free Download Dr Beatriz Pichel, "Picturing the Western Front: Photography, practices and experiences in First World War France "
English | ISBN: 1526151901 | 2021 | 272 pages | PDF | 13 MB
Between 1914 and 1918, military, press and amateur photographers produced thousands of pictures. Either classified in military archives specially created with this purpose in 1915, collected in personal albums or circulated in illustrated magazines, photographs were supposed to tell the story of the war. Picturing the Western Front argues that photographic practices also shaped combatants and civilians’ war experiences. Doing photography (taking pictures, posing for them, exhibiting, cataloguing and looking at them) allowed combatants and civilians to make sense of what they were living through. Photography mattered because it enabled combatants and civilians to record events, establish or reinforce bonds with one another, represent bodies, place people and events in imaginative geographies and making things visible, while making others, such as suicide, invisible. Photographic practices became, thus, frames of experience.

Free Download Debra Carttar, "Picturing Lucy"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 0741461951 | EPUB | pages: 232 | 1.8 mb
A young girl goes on an extraordinary journey from the tragic loss of her mother to uncovering the mystery of her family. Its a life that 10-year-old Lucy never pictured.