From Observation To Vision
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Author | : Jonathan Crary |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 1992-02-25 |
Genre | : Design |
ISBN | : 9780262531078 |
Jonathan Crary's Techniques of the Observer provides a dramatically new perspective on the visual culture of the nineteenth century, reassessing problems of both visual modernism and social modernity. This analysis of the historical formation of the observer is a compelling account of the prehistory of the society of the spectacle. In Techniques of the Observer Jonathan Crary provides a dramatically new perspective on the visual culture of the nineteenth century, reassessing problems of both visual modernism and social modernity. Inverting conventional approaches, Crary considers the problem of visuality not through the study of art works and images, but by analyzing the historical construction of the observer. He insists that the problems of vision are inseparable from the operation of social power and examines how, beginning in the 1820s, the observer became the site of new discourses and practices that situated vision within the body as a physiological event. Alongside the sudden appearance of physiological optics, Crary points out, theories and models of "subjective vision" were developed that gave the observer a new autonomy and productivity while simultaneously allowing new forms of control and standardization of vision. Crary examines a range of diverse work in philosophy, in the empirical sciences, and in the elements of an emerging mass visual culture. He discusses at length the significance of optical apparatuses such as the stereoscope and of precinematic devices, detailing how they were the product of new physiological knowledge. He also shows how these forms of mass culture, usually labeled as "realist," were in fact based on abstract models of vision, and he suggests that mimetic or perspectival notions of vision and representation were initially abandoned in the first half of the nineteenth century within a variety of powerful institutions and discourses, well before the modernist painting of the 1870s and 1880s.
Author | : John Crisp (F.R.S.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 1796 |
Genre | : Binocular vision |
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Author | : David Hosack |
Publisher | : Hardpress Publishing |
Total Pages | : 30 |
Release | : 1813 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Vision Team |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 45 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Children with mental disabilities |
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Author | : David HOSACK |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 30 |
Release | : 1794 |
Genre | : |
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Author | : James Ware |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 1794 |
Genre | : |
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Author | : National Research Council |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2002-08-17 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0309083486 |
When children and adults apply for disability benefits and claim that a visual impairment has limited their ability to function, the U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) is required to determine their eligibility. To ensure that these determinations are made fairly and consistently, SSA has developed criteria for eligibility and a process for assessing each claimant against the criteria. Visual Impairments: Determining Eligibility for Social Security Benefits examines SSA's methods of determining disability for people with visual impairments, recommends changes that could be made now to improve the process and the outcomes, and identifies research needed to develop improved methods for the future. The report assesses tests of visual function, including visual acuity and visual fields whether visual impairments could be measured directly through visual task performance or other means of assessing disability. These other means include job analysis databases, which include information on the importance of vision to job tasks or skills, and measures of health-related quality of life, which take a person-centered approach to assessing visual function testing of infants and children, which differs in important ways from standard adult tests.
Author | : Thomas Young |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 13 |
Release | : 1793 |
Genre | : Eye |
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Author | : John Crisp (Assistant at the Royal Academy) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 1796 |
Genre | : Eye |
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Author | : David Hosack |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 30 |
Release | : 2018-09-24 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781390978377 |
Excerpt from Observations on Vision Amusing myself with these changes of the pupil, as amat ter of curiosity, by presenting to the eye different objects at different distances, I soon perceived that its contraction and dilatation were irregular and more limited than had been supposed: i. E. That approaching the object nearer the eye, within a certain distance, the pupil not only ceased to con tract, but becatne again dilated; and that beyond afew yards distance, it also ceased to dilate: these circumstances im mediately occurred as objections to the above explanation for were it from the contraction and dilatation of the iris alone that we see objects at different distances, I naturally concluded it should operate regularly to produce its effects; but if to View an object at a few yards distance it be enlarg ed to the utmost extent, surely'it must of itself be insufficient to view one at the distance of several miles; for example, the heavenly bodies. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.