Optical Media

Name: Optical Media
Price: 24.8 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780745640914

ISBN-10: 0745640915

ISBN-13: 9780745640914

Edition: 2009

Authors: Friedrich Kittler, Friedrich Kittler

List price: $36.95

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Buy new: $24.80

Marketplace

2 new & used from $29.98

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Friedrich Kittler's lecture series provides a concise history of optical media from Renaissance linear perspective to late twentieth-century computer graphics. He begins by looking at European painting since the Renaissance in order to discern the principles according to which modern optical perception was organised. Kittler also discusses the development of various mechanical devices, like the camera obscura and the laterna magica, which were closely connected to the printing press and which played a pivotal role in the media war between the Reformation and the Counterreformation. After examining this history, Kittler then addresses the ways in which images were first stored and made to…

Book details

List price: $36.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication date: 11/20/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 332
Size: 5.90" wide x 8.90" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English




Preliminary Remarks



Theoretical Presuppositions



Technologies of the Fine Arts



Camera Obscura and Linear Perspective



Prehistory



Greeks and Arabs



Implementation



Brunelleschi



Alberti



Impact



Perspective and Letterpress



The Self-Printing of Nature



Europe's Colonial Power



Laterna Magica and the Age of the World Picture



Magic Lanterns in Action



Implementation



Impact



Propaganda



Heidegger's Age of the World Picture



Jesuits and Optical Media



Travelling People



Jesuit Churches



Jesuit Theatre



Enlightenment and Image War



Brockes



Phenomenology from Lambert to Hegel



Ghost Seer



Schiller



Hoffmann



Romantic Poetry



Optical Media



Photography



Prehistory



Implementation



Niï¿½pce and Daguerre



Talbot



Painting and Photography: A Battle for the Eyeballs



Film



Preludes



Implementation



Marey and Muybridge



Silent Film



Sound Film



Colour Film



Television



Computer