Eye Witness
By: Sam Smiles
Edition: First edition.
Series: Routledge Revivals
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781315185552
Subjects: Visual communication; History; Visual communication in art; Art and society; Art and history; Communication visuelle; Histoire; Communication visuelle dans l'art; Art et société; Art et histoire
Description: "This title was first published in 2000: This study examines the ways in which very different visual fields might be said to have shared certain working assumptions concerning the truth of representation. It concentrates particularly on prints."--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Chapter Introduction; title: chapter 1 The testimony of the eyes; title: chapter 2 Material evidence: delineation as knowledge; title: chapter 3 Recording the Gothic: art and information; title: chapter 4 Ordering the realm: costume books and social understanding; title: chapter 5 The working scene and the visual arts; title: chapter 6 Turner's challenge: perception and the creation of meaning.