Reading and writing with images: a review of four texts. Good Looking: Essays on the Virtue of Images

Stafford, Barbara Maria

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“…If the modern era is non-visual, all ideas about different "the Other" is only additions to philosophic discourse on "the Other". B. Stafford develops these ideas [25]. She states that we have learned successfully to understand the variable pictures and lost the type of visual competence, which gives the opportunity to understand "the Other" and requires more complex algorithm of interpreting compound visual images, which become non-visual for us.…”

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“…It is really the representation of the laboratory in its nature: in orthodox interpretation it is the place for working, producing sense and the place for service. The image of Christianity, represented in a hermeneutic manner by the artist, requires studying the picture for months and years, getting the ideas and associations out of it, thus carrying out something like alchemic work [25].…”

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The influence of visual representations of “the Other” in the system of modern sociocultural communications

Колодий

Kolodii

Гончарова

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Abstract. The paper deals with the way and the form of modern humanitaristics understanding of the problem of visual representation of "the Other". The authors' tasks were to comprehend the nature and dynamics of visualization, to give a distinct working definition of visual competence. Besides, the purpose of the paper was to state the components of visual competence, its criteria, estimation methods and in this context to interpret the image of "the Other" decoded in scientific philosophic and cultural literature and in daily cultural practices. And the final task was to reduce the visual message to the verbal one. The doctrine that the image may be read is the common prejudice, which prevents the formation of a new approach to visuality. The first step towards the solution of problem is to describe the techniques, which help in potential understanding of the visual structure. Understanding the image diversity and its possible text analogues should help in establishing the specific requirements, which can be and must be applicable to visual representation of "the Other". Representations in the visual culture (photography, cinematography, media, painting, advertisement) influence the social image, affects the daily social practices and communications. Visual representations are of interest for social theorists as well as cultural texts, as they give an idea on the context of cultural production, social interaction and individual experience.

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The influence of visual representations of “the Other” in the system of modern sociocultural communications

Колодий

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Гончарова

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“…Its aesthetics shapes routines of belonging that are as ambivalent and elusive as they are self-evident to its members. Contesting it means proposing an alternative way of ‘good looking’ (see Stafford 1996), alternative models and social relations where evidence can be found of ‘good work’ because the very notion of (animal) beauty is profoundly rooted in context and history. Beauty is a very local form of agreement on how the world should be.…”

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Understanding skill, food and field

Grasseni

2018

Interdisciplinary Science Reviews

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Building on an epistemological reading of anthropology as a fieldbased social science, I argue in favour of ethnography, namely a reflexive field-based practice and a defining methodology for anthropology. I introduce the methodology of 'comparing by context' as a way of rigorously translating the experience of apprenticeship in the field into forms of social learning and of understanding. I argue that practising anthropology as an ethnographer is a matter of negotiating the pendulum between participant observationa form of apprenticeship in the fieldand anthropological understanding.

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“…Having taken this step, the next move is to assume a connection between these readings and schizophrenia itself: indeed, to suggest that what we are witnessing in the PET scan pictures is the very disease itself. Such machines, says Krueger (1991), provide ‘a means of visualizing thought.’ (p.4) According to Stafford (1996):…”

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Psychiatric Ment Health Nurs

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Reading and writing with images: a review of four texts. Good Looking: Essays on the Virtue of Images

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The influence of visual representations of “the Other” in the system of modern sociocultural communications

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