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Ambiguity Revisited - Communicating with Pictures (Hardcover)
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Ambiguity Revisited - Communicating with Pictures (Hardcover)
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Ambiguity Revisited is concerned with the manner in which pictures
communicate with the spectator. Its focus lies in those fluid,
indeterminate spaces where our reading of images, in art and
photography, exercises and draws upon our imagination, memory, and
experience. Sir William Empsons seminal (1930) text: Seven Types of
Ambiguity is used as a springboard to discussion, towards a fresh
way of exploring ambiguity beyond English literature, and in a
broader framework to that contained in John Bergers (1989) Another
Way of Telling. The use of ambiguity in art and photography, as in
literature, is both a conscious and an unconscious act; and
ambiguity influences the way in which we respond to work, from
Leonardo da Vincis portraits to the photographer William Egglestons
engaging and idiosyncratic reflections on Americas Deep South. This
ambiguity is a force for good, or at least one to be reckoned with,
due to its participatory nature in actively engaging with, or
masking itself from, the viewer. Ambiguity is infrequently
discussed but is highly relevant as an expressive device. It holds
a position at the core of communication within the visual arts. As
society becomes influenced increasingly by communications delivered
in a visual form, so we, the consumers, require tools, more than
ever, to engage with the work.
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