Visual engagements : image, practices and falconry /
What is the relation between image practices and the iconic power of flying and more specifically falconry? The book investigates for the first time this interaction by focussing on common intersections between culture and nature, vision and gaze, tactility and perception, perspective and surveillan...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin :
De Gruyter,
[2020]
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| Summary: | What is the relation between image practices and the iconic power of flying and more specifically falconry? The book investigates for the first time this interaction by focussing on common intersections between culture and nature, vision and gaze, tactility and perception, perspective and surveillance, material and symbol. Also questions concerning political iconology, the migration of objects and images of human-animal interactions are addressed. With contributions by Baudouin van den Abeele, Horst Bredekamp, Robert Felfe, Peter Geimer, Yannis Hadjinicolaou, Christine Kleiter, Klaus Krüger, Tanja Michalsky, Andrea Pinotti, Herman Roodenburg, Monika Wagner, Gerhard Wolf and Frank Zöllner |
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| Physical Description: | x, 299 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9783110616460 3110616467 |