Origins of Pictures
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Origins of Pictures

Anthropological Discourses in Image Science

  1. 560 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Origins of Pictures

Anthropological Discourses in Image Science

About this book

Anyone talking about pictures by necessity refers to those using pictures. It is therefore essentially the competence of using pictures that has to be considered. Such competence is not common among higher developed mammals, at least as far as we know today. This fact raises the question whether and to what extent that ability has to be conceived as a strictly anthropological one. In an interdisciplinary approach, the first international conference of the Society for Interdisciplinary Image Science (GiB) titled ›Origins of Pictures‹ has taken a closer look at the role of pictures for the conditio humana.The primary goal of the conference was to present empirical findings of the origins of picture uses, considering in particular research in paleo-anthropology, archeology, cultural anthropology, and developmental psychology. Furthermore, those findings were to be related to philosophical considerations concerning the conditions of the conceptual formation of picture competence.

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Yes, you can access Origins of Pictures by Klaus Sachs-Hombach, Jörg R. J. Schirra in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Philosophy History & Theory. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Copyright
  2. Table of Contents
  3. Klaus Sachs-Hombach / Jörg R. J. Schirra
  4. Introduction
  5. I. Methodological Aspects of Picture Anthropology
  6. Iain Davidson
  7. Origins of Pictures: An Argument for Transformation of Signs
  8. Jean Clottes
  9. Consequences of the Discovery and Study of the Chauvet Cave
  10. Lambros Malafouris
  11. Learning to See: Enactive Discovery and the Prehistory of Pictorial Skill
  12. Christa Sütterlin
  13. Early Face Representation as Proto- or Archetype of Generalized Human Face Perception
  14. II. Relation between Empirical Anthropological Investigations and Synthetic Philosophical Investigations
  15. Søren Kjørup
  16. Resemblance Reconsidered: Confessions and Concessions of a Conventionalist
  17. Jörg R. J. Schirra / Klaus Sachs-Hombach
  18. The Anthropological Function of Pictures
  19. III. Archeological and Paleoanthropological Perspectives on the »First« Pictures
  20. Christian Züchner
  21. Symbols and Signs of the Earliest Art of Ancient Europe
  22. Nicholas J. Conard / Harald Floss
  23. Ekkehart Malotki
  24. The Road to Iconicity in the Paleoart of the American West
  25. Ellen Dissanayake
  26. Born to Artify: The Universal Origin of Picturing
  27. Tilman Lenssen-Erz
  28. The Dark Ages of Picturing:  Does Art Originate from Caves? A Synopsis
  29. IV. Picture Competence in Developmental Psychology and the Role of Gestures and Facial Expressions
  30. Göran Sonesson
  31. The Picture Between Mirror and Mind: From Phenomenology to Empirical Studies in Pictorial Semiotics
  32. John Matthews
  33. Seven Spots and a Squiggle: The Prehistory of Pictures
  34. Dieter Maurer
  35. Early Pictures in Ontogeny and Phylogeny:  Preliminaries to a Comparison
  36. Sabine Völkel / Peter Ohler
  37. Understanding Pictures in Early Childhood
  38. V. Cultural Anthropology: On the Origins of Pictures and Picture-free Societies
  39. DEREK HODGSON
  40. Ambiguity, Perception, and the First Representations
  41. Joachim Knape
  42. Image Textuality, Narrativity, and Pathos Formula: Reflections on the Rhetoric of the Image
  43. Philipp Stoellger
  44. The Image – As Strong as Death? On Death as the Origin of the Image
  45. Helge Gerndt
  46. When Do Images Emerge? Religious Image Practices in the Late Middle Ages
  47. Hans Dieter Huber
  48. Images of the Dead
  49. Ekkehard Jürgens
  50. Pictures ­– What For? Seven Hypotheses on the Origin of Art
  51. The Authors