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in new ways with on-line methods? Can a collective discussion of
imagery produce more scholarly knowledge than just an individual
analysis? Is it possible to analyze electronic images in a scholarly
manner without examining the material object? texture of the paper?
printing technique? style? color? |
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Advantage
of examining the material object Jack Censer, 6-1-03,
3:33 PM |
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the material object Lynn
Hunt, 6-23-03, 10:52 PM |
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RE: Advantage of examining
the material object Vivian Cameron,
7-6-03, 6:28 PM |
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On-line Collaboration Wayne
Hanley, 6-6-03,
9:53 AM |
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On-line Collaboration Barbara
Day-Hickman, 7-1-03,
4:22 PM |
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RE: On-line Collaboration Joan
B. Landes,
7-14-03, 3:28 PM |
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zooming on images Warren
Roberts, 7-2-03, 2:08 PM |
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on-line collaboration Vivian
Cameron, 7-6-03,
6:35 PM |
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on material objects and
digital technology Joan B. Landes,
7-12-03, 5:33 PM |
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Final thoughts Warren
Roberts, 7-19-03, 8:03 AM |
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on-line collaboration Barbara
Day-Hickman,
7-24-03, 4:28 PM |
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What a collective
discussion can contribute is a focus on issues, details,
etc. that individual scholars might
not have considered. I very much liked Jack and Lynn’s
construction of three axes within the corpus of images:
caricature vs. “realistic”; pro-revolutionary
vs. anti-revolutionary; contemporary vs. later images.
Since so many of the images included on the web-site
are what I would call “symbolic,” I would
add another axis: symbolic (including allegorical)
vs. narrative. A number of the images that Wayne Hanley
analyzes would fit in here. I think that Barbara’s
point about the ideological position of the artist/artisan
and the ideological connection with compositional elements
such as symmetry, balance, and linearity, to which
I would add decorum, gestural language and emotion,
is essential to our understanding of many of these
works. I found Warren’s discussion of the lamppost
really illuminating (sorry about the pun) and probably
right on, given how artists think about how to formulate
issues (politics) visually. |
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