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Seeing from Above - The Aerial View in Visual Culture (Paperback)
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Seeing from Above - The Aerial View in Visual Culture (Paperback)
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The view from above, or the 'bird's-eye' view, has become so
ingrained in contemporary visual culture that it is now hard to
imagine our world without it. It has risen to pre-eminence as a way
of seeing, but important questions about its effects and meanings
remain unexplored. More powerfully than any other visual modality,
this image of 'everywhere' supports our idea of a world-view, yet
it is one that continues to be transformed as technologies are
invented and refined. This innovative volume, edited by Mark
Dorrian and Frederic Pousin, offers an unprecedented range of
discussions on the aerial view, covering topics from
sixteenth-century Roman maps to the Luftwaffe's aerial survey of
Warsaw to Google Earth. Underpinned by a cross-disciplinary
approach that draws together diverse and previously isolated
material, this volume examines the politics and poetics of the
aerial view in relation to architecture, art, film, literature,
photography and urbanism and explores its role in areas such as
aesthetics and epistemology. Structured through a series of
detailed case studies, this book builds into a cultural history of
the aerial imagination.
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