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020 $a9781780764603 (hbk.)
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050 4 $aTR810$b.S44 2013
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245 00 $aSeeing from above :$bthe aerial view in visual culture /$cedited by Mark Dorrian and Frédéric Pousin.
246 30 $aAerial view in visual culture
264 1 $aLondon ;$aNew York :$bI.B. Tauris,$c2013.
264 1 $aLondon :$bI.B. Tauris,$c2013.
300 $axxiv, 312 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
336 $astill image$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
500 $a"This book is the result of a programme of seminars and conferences held in Edinburgh and Paris between February 2007 and October 2008 under the title The aerial view : spatial knowledge and spatial practices"--Ackknowledgements.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction / Mark Dorrian and Frédéric Pousin -- Intimate communiqués : Melchior Lorck‘s flying tortoise / Marina Warner -- The meaning of Roman maps : Etienne Dupérac and Antonio Tempesta / Michael Bury -- Thomas Baldwin’s Airopaidia, or the aerial view in colour / Marie Thébaud-Sorger -- European cities from a bird’s-eye view : the case of Alfred Guesdon / Jean-Marc Besse -- Nadar’s aerial view / Stephen Bann -- Transfiguring reality : Suprematism and the aerial view / Christina Lodder -- The aerial view and cinematism, 1898-1939 / Teresa Castro -- ‘The domain of Rrose Sélavy’: Dust breeding and aerial photography / David Hopkins -- The aviator and the photographer : the case of Walter Mittelholzer / Olivier Lugon -- From the sky to the ground : the aerial view and the ideal of the vue raisonnée in geography during the 1920s / Marie-Claire Robic -- The figure from above : on the obliqueness of the plan in urbanism and architecture / John Macarthur -- The city seen from the aeroplane : distorted reflections and urban futures / Nathalie Roseau -- Vectors of looking : reflections on the Luftwaffe’s aerial survey of Warsaw, 1944 / Ella Chmielewska -- The aerial view in the service of the grands Esembles / Frédéric Pousin -- Robert Smithson and aerial art / Gilles A. Tiberghien -- On Google Earth / Mark Dorrian.
520 $a"The view from above, or the "birds-eye" view, has become so ingrained in contemporary visual culture that it is now hard to imagine our world without it. It has risen to pre-eminence as a way of seeing, but important questions about its effects and meanings remain unexplored. More powerfully than any other visual modality, this image of "everywhere" supports our idea of a world-view, yet it is one that continues to be transformed as technologies are invented and refined. This innovative volume, edited by Mark Dorrian and Frederic Pousin, offers an unprecedented range of discussions on the aerial view, covering topics that range from sixteenth-century Roman maps, to the Luftwaffe's aerial survey of Warsaw, to Google Earth. Underpinned by a cross-disciplinary approach that draws together diverse and previously isolated material, this volume examines the politics and poetics of the aerial view in relation to architecture, art, film, literature, photography and urbanism and explores its role in areas such as aesthetics and epistemology. Structured through a series of detailed case studies, this book builds into a cultural history of the aerial imagination"--$cPublisher's website
650 0 $aAerial photography$xHistory.
650 0 $aVisual sociology.
655 7 $aHistory.$2fast
700 12 $aBann, Stephen.$tNadar’s aerial view,$eauthor.$5DDO
700 1 $aDorrian, Mark,$eeditor of compilation.
700 1 $aPousin, Frédéric,$eeditor of compilation.
740 0 $aAerial view, spatial knowledge and spatial practices.
700 1 $aDorrian, Mark,$eeditor.
700 1 $aPousin, Frédéric,$eeditor.
988 $a20130923
906 $0OCLC