Seeing from above : the aerial view in visual culture /
From sixteenth-century Roman maps, to the Luftwaffe's aerial survey of Warsaw, the London Eye to Google Earth, visual culture is saturated with aerial imagery. The aerial view - the image of everywhere- has become natural, desirable, omnipresent, yet its rise to pre-eminence as a 'way of s...
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London :
I.B.Tauris,
2013.
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Table of Contents:
- List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Introduction; 1. Intimate Communiqués: Melchior Lorck's Flying Tortoise; 2. The Meaning of Roman Maps: Etienne Dupérac and Antonio Tempesta; 3. Thomas Baldwin's Airopaidia, or the Aerial View in Colour; 4. European Cities from a Bird's-eye View: The Case of Alfred Guesdon; 5. Nadar's Aerial View; 6. Transfiguring Reality: Suprematism and the Aerial View; 7. Aerial Views and Cinematism, 1898-1939; 8. 'The Domain of Rrose Sélavy': Dust Breeding and Aerial Photography; 9. The Aviator and the Photographer: The Case of Walter Mittelholzer
- 10. From the Sky to the Ground: The Aerial View and the Ideal of the Vue Raisonnée in Geography during the 1920s11. The Figure from Above: On the Obliqueness of the Plan in Urbanism and Architecture; 12. The City Seen from the Aeroplane: Distorted Reflections and Urban Futures; 13. Vectors of Looking: Reflections on the Luftwaffe's Aerial Survey of Warsaw, 1944; 14. The Aerial View and the Grands Ensembles; 15. Robert Smithson and Aerial Art; 16. On Google Earth; Index