Sights and Insights
Author : Mary N. Harris
Publisher : Edizioni Plus
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 41,15 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 8884924677
Site, Sight, Insight
Author : John Dixon Hunt
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 16,7 MB
Release : 2016-05-12
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0812248007
Book Description
Site, Sight, Insight presents twelve essays by John Dixon Hunt, the leading theorist and historian of landscape architecture. The collection's common theme is a focus on sites, how we see them and what we derive from that looking. Acknowledging that even the most modest landscape encounter has validity, Hunt contends that the more one knows about a site and one's own sight of it (an awareness of how one is seeing), the greater the insight. Employing the concepts, tropes, and rhetorical methods of literary analysis, he addresses the problem of how to discuss, understand, and appreciate places that are experienced through all the senses, over time and through space. Hunt questions our intellectual and aesthetic understanding of gardens and designed landscapes and asks how these sites affect us emotionally. Do gardens have meaning? When we visit a fine garden or designed landscape, we experience a unique work of great complexity in purpose, which has been executed over a number of years—a work that, occasionally, achieves beauty. While direct experience is fundamental, Hunt demonstrates how the ways in which gardens and landscapes are communicated in word and image can be equally important. He returns frequently to a cluster of key sites and writings on which he has based much of his thinking about garden-making and its role in landscape architecture: the gardens of Rousham in Oxfordshire; Thomas Whately's Observations on Modern Gardening (1770); William Gilpin's dialogues on Stowe (1747); Alexander Pope's meditation on genius loci; the Désert de Retz; Paolo Burgi's Cardada; and the designs by Bernard Lassus and Ian Hamilton Finlay.
Science from Sight to Insight
Author : Alan G. Gross
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 19,26 MB
Release : 2013-11-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 022606834X
Book Description
John Dalton’s molecular structures. Scatter plots and geometric diagrams. Watson and Crick’s double helix. The way in which scientists understand the world—and the key concepts that explain it—is undeniably bound up in not only words, but images. Moreover, from PowerPoint presentations to articles in academic journals, scientific communication routinely relies on the relationship between words and pictures. In Science from Sight to Insight, Alan G. Gross and Joseph E. Harmon present a short history of the scientific visual, and then formulate a theory about the interaction between the visual and textual. With great insight and admirable rigor, the authors argue that scientific meaning itself comes from the complex interplay between the verbal and the visual in the form of graphs, diagrams, maps, drawings, and photographs. The authors use a variety of tools to probe the nature of scientific images, from Heidegger’s philosophy of science to Peirce’s semiotics of visual communication. Their synthesis of these elements offers readers an examination of scientific visuals at a much deeper and more meaningful level than ever before.
From Sight to Insight
Author : Jeff Rackham
Publisher : Holt McDougal
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 38,37 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780030624445
Book Description
Chan Insights and Oversights
Author : Bernard Faure
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 41,93 MB
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0691218102
Book Description
For many people attracted to Eastern religions (particularly Zen Buddhism), Asia seems the source of all wisdom. As Bernard Faure examines the study of Chan/Zen from the standpoint of postmodern human sciences and literary criticism, he challenges this inversion of traditional "Orientalist" discourse: whether the Other is caricatured or idealized, ethnocentric premises marginalize important parts of Chan thought. Questioning the assumptions of "Easterners" as well, including those of the charismatic D. T. Suzuki, Faure demonstrates how both West and East have come to overlook significant components of a complex and elusive tradition. Throughout the book Faure reveals surprising hidden agendas in the modern enterprise of Chan studies and in Chan itself. After describing how Jesuit missionaries brought Chan to the West, he shows how the prejudices they engendered were influenced by the sectarian constraints of Sino-Japanese discourse. He then assesses structural, hermeneutical, and performative ways of looking at Chan, analyzes the relationship of Chan and local religion, and discusses Chan concepts of temporality, language, writing, and the self. Read alone or with its companion volume, The Rhetoric of Immediacy, this work offers a critical introduction not only to Chinese and Japanese Buddhism but also to "theory" in the human sciences.
Who's who in America
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 3728 pages
File Size : 23,34 MB
Release : 1924
Category : United States
ISBN :
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Literary Digest
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 1548 pages
File Size : 38,12 MB
Release : 1915
Category : American wit and humor
ISBN :
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Alphabetical Finding List
Author : Princeton University. Library
Publisher :
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 39,56 MB
Release : 1921
Category : Library catalogs
ISBN :
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Catalogue
Author : Salem College (Winston-Salem, N.C.)
Publisher :
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 44,40 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Universities and colleges
ISBN :
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Insight Guides Caribbean Cruises
Author : Insight Guides
Publisher : Apa Publications (UK) Limited
Page : 852 pages
File Size : 24,58 MB
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1786715511
Book Description
Set sail round the Caribbean's most stunning and fascinating islands and ports on the cruise of a lifetime. Be inspired by the new edition of Insight Guide Caribbean Cruises, a comprehensive full-colour guide to the Caribbean's many ports of call, from Florida to the Lesser Antilles. Inside Insight Guide Caribbean Cruises: A fully-overhauled edition by our expert cruise specialist. Colourful photography brings this tropical region and its people to life. Lively features cover not just the cruising angle but the cultural one too: from choosing the right cruise for you, cruise ship cuisine and pampering, to the Caribbean people,the region's history, and photo features on Carnival, Architecture and more. Highlights of the region's top attractions, including the spectacular Pitons in St Lucia, the man-made wonder that is the Panama Canal and Georgian Nelson's Dockyard in Antigua. Descriptive place-by-place accounts cover the whole region from Florida, Mexico and Central America to the different parts of the Caribbean; a guide to the cruise lines' private islands is also included. Detailed, high-quality maps throughout will help you get around and travel tips give you all the essential information for planning a memorable trip, including a dedicated section on life aboard a cruise ship. About Insight Guides: Insight Guides has over 40 years' experience of publishing high-quality, visual travel guides. We produce around 400 full-colour print guide books and maps as well as picture-packed eBooks to meet different travellers' needs. Insight Guides' unique combination of beautiful travel photography and focus on history and culture together create a unique visual reference and planning tool to inspire your next adventure. 'Insight Guides has spawned many imitators but is still the best of its type.' - Wanderlust Magazine
