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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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Being able to zoom in on images would be invaluable.
In my work on Prieur I sometimes used a magnifying
glass to get at important details. Without this procedure
my reading of Prieur’s images would have been less
thorough and less effective. To understand Prieur’s
images I compared them to images by different illustrators.
The Bibliothèque Nationale Videodisk was invaluable
for this part of my work. To see how Prieur and other
artists depicted the same event told me something about
their own individual responses. Important also was
the frequency with which events were illustrated. That
a particular event was depicted often can be seen as
an indicator, in some measure, of its importance to
contemporaries; seeing images of the Revolution was
one of the ways people came to understand the Revolution.
The incidence with which events were depicted and disseminated
is important both in a positive and negative sense.
My overall impression going through the Videodisk images
was that sensational events, crowds in action for example,
were depicted frequently, whereas the more mundane
work of the Revolution, such as deputies carrying out
legislative change, was depicted only rarely. This
is hardly surprising, but going through the Videodisk
and seeing the images that were there, and weren’t
there, or there only rarely, said something to me about
how the Revolution saw itself. Also revealing was how
images done outside France revealed foreign responses
to the Revolution. I recall vividly images depicting
foreign responses to the September Massacres, for example,
as well as images indicating French responses. Comparative
study of images can tell us much about the Revolution. |
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