Item Number: 126785 Title: Seeing from Above: The Aerial View in Visual Culture Author: Dorrian, Mark ; Frederic Pousin (eds) Price: Not Available ISBN: 9781780764603 Description: London: Tauris, 2013. 25cm., hardcover, 312pp. illus. Contents: 1: Intimate Communiqués: Melchior Lorck's Flying Tortoise - Marina Warner. 2: The Meaning of Roman Maps: Etienne Dupérac and Antonio Tempesta - Michael Bury. 3: Thomas Baldwin's Airopaidia, or the Aerial View in Color - Marie Thébaud-Sorger. 4: European Cities from a Bird's-Eye View: the Case of Alfred Guesdon - Jean-Marc Besse. 5: Nadar's Aerial View - Stephen Bann. 6: Transfiguring Reality: Suprematism and the Aerial View - Christina Lodder. 7: Aerial Views and Cinematism, 1898-1939 - Teresa Castro. 8: The Domain of Rrose Sélavy: Dust Breeding and Aerial Photography - David Hopkins. 9: The Aviator and the Photographer: the Case of Walter Mittelholzer - Olivier Lugon. 10: From the Sky to the Ground: the Aerial View and the Idea of the Vue Raisonné in the 1920s - Marie-Claire Robic. 11: The Figure from Above: On the Obliqueness of the Plan in Urbanism and Architecture - John Macarthur. 12: The City Seen from the Airplane: Mirror or Scenario? - Nathalie Roseau. 13: Vectors of Looking: Reflections on the Luftwaffe's Aerial Survey of Warsaw, 1944 - Ella Chmielewska. 14: The Aerial View and the Discourse on Urbanism: the Reconstruction of France in the 1960s - Frédéric Pousin. 15: Robert Smithson and Aerial Art - Gilles Tiberghien. 16: On Google Earth - Mark Dorrian. We regret to inform you that this title is no longer available. P.O. Box 3904, Kingston, New York 12402 US Phone: 845-331-8519 Fax: 845-331-0852 Email: michael@artbooks.com |
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