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Art and the senses

Obrazy
Autor
ed. by Francesca Bacci and David Melcher
Place of publication
Oxford
Publication date
2011
Table of Contents

Foreword . . v
List of Contributors . . xxiii

Editors' Introduction . . 1
1. Making Sense of Art, Making Art of Sense . . 9
2. The Science and Art of the Sixth Sense . . 19
3. The Art of Touch in Early Modern Italy . . 59
4. The Multisensory Perception of Touch . . 85
5. Aesthetic Touch . . 107
6. Rendering the Sensory World Semantic . . 115
7. Sculpture and Touch . . 133
8. Touch and the Cinematic Experience . . 149
9. Hearing Scents, Tasting Sights: Toward a Cross-Cultural Multimodal Theory of Aesthetics . . 161
10. The Science of Taste and Smell . . 183
11. 'Sound Bites': Auditory Contributions to the Perception and Consumption of Food and Drink . . 207
12. Thinking Multisensory Culture . . 239
13. Sighting Sound: Listening with Eyes Open . . 251
14. The Sight and Sound of Music: Audiovisual Interactions in Science and the Arts . . 265
15. Improvisation in Time: The Art of Jazz . . 293
16. Musical Tension . . 311
17. Cause and Affect: A Functional Perspective on Music and Emotion . . 329
18. The Mystery of Representation: A Conversation with Vik Muniz . . 351
19. Pictorial Cues in Art and in Visual Perception . . 359
20. The Many Dimensions of the Third One . . 395
21. Film, Narrative, and Cognitive Neuroscience . . 435
22. Mirror Neurons and Art . . 455
23. Pictorial Art Beyond Sight: Revealing the Mind of a Blind Painter . . 465
24. Visual Music in Arts and Minds: Explorations with Synaesthesia . . 481
25. Visual Music and Musical Paintings: The Quest for Synaesthesia in the Arts . . 495
26. Dance, Choreography, and the Brain . . 513
27. Neuroaesthetics of Performing Arts . . 529
28. Multisensory Aesthetics in Product Design . . 543
29. Architecture and the Body . . 571
30. Architecture and the Existential Sense: Space, Body, and the Senses . . 579
31. Multimodal, Interactive Media and the Illusion of Reality . . 599

Index . . 619

Eavesdropping : an intimate history

Obrazy
Autor
John L. Locke
Place of publication
Oxford
Publication date
2010
Table of Contents

Acknowledgments . . vii
List of Illustrations . . viii

Prologue . . 1
Chapter One: Passionate Spectators . . 9
Chapter Two: Under the Leaves . . 39
Chapter Three: Open-plan Living . . 62
Chapter Four: Reluctant Domestication . . 76
Chapter Five: Privacy, Intimacy, and The Selves . . 92
Chapter Six: Personal Power and Social Control . . 109
Chapter Seven: Passionate Exhibitors . . 148
Chapter Eight: What Will the Servants Say? . . 164
Chapter Nine: Virtual Eaves . . 189
Chapter Ten: Intimacy by Theft . . 204

Notes . . 221
References . . 234
Index . . 257

Dressing up : cultural identity in Renaissance Europe

Obrazy
Autor
Ulinka Rublack
Place of publication
New York
Publication date
2010
Table of Contents

Acknowledgements . . viii
List of Illustrations . . xiii

Prologue . . xix
1. Introduction . . 1
2. Looking at the Self . . 33
3. The Look of Religion . . 81
4. Nationhood . . 125
5. Looking at Others . . 177
6. Clothes and Consumers . . 211
7. Bourgeois Taste and Emotional Styles . . 231
Epilogue: An Old Regime of Dress? . . 259

Notes . . 286
Select Bibliography . . 317
Index . . 347

Between the Devil and the host : imagining witchcraft in early modern Poland

Obrazy
Autor
Michael Ostling
Place of publication
Oxford
Publication date
2011
Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables . . xiii
Maps . . xiv
Introduction: At the Crossroads . . 1

I. HISTORY
1. Contexts . . 11
2. Imagining Witchcraft in Literature and Law . . 45
3. A Winding Road to the Stake . . 61
4. Mechanisms of Justice . . 91

II. RELIGION
5. Healing and Harming . . 107
6. Stealing the Sacred . . 140
7. Broken Bodies . . 165
8. Piety in the Torture Chamber . . 183

III. DEMONOLOGY
9. A Candle for the Devil . . 195
10. Demon Lovers . . 209
11. Translating the Devil . . 227

Conclusions . . 239

Appendix: Polish Witch-Trials 1511-1775 . . 243
References . . 254
Index . . 275

Series
(The Past & Present Book Series)

Observing the Observer : Understanding our selves in field research

Obrazy
Autor
Shulamit Reinharz
Place of publication
New York
Publication date
2011
Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION . . 1

Chapter 1 Developing Research Selves: The Desire, Opportunity, and Preparation to Do a Study . . 15
Chapter 2 Becoming Independent of the Sponsor . . 33
Chapter 3 Gaining Allies, Overcoming Antagonists, Being Tested . . 47
Chapter 4 Personal Selves . . 63
Chapter 5 Understanding the Elderly as a Consequence of My Mothering Role . . 81
Chapter 6 Being a Woman, a Wife, 33 years old, a Jew and a Potential Member . . 93
Chapter 7 Being an American, an Academic, a Sociologist/Anthropologist/ Gerontologist, Dancer and Daughter . . 123
Chapter 8 Situational Selves: Being a Worker, Being Temporary . . 143
Chapter 9 Being a "Volunteer" (Neither a Volunteer nor a Hired Worker) and Being Sick . . 167
Chapter 10 Being a Neighbor, a Friend, a Homemaker, a Hostess and a Leaver . . 179
Chapter 11 Theoretical Conclusions . . 205

EPILOGUE . . 209
BIBLIOGRAPHY . . 213
INDEX . . 221

Practical reason in law and morality

Obrazy
Autor
Neil MacCormick
Place of publication
Oxford
Publication date
2008
Table of Contents

Preface . . vii
Table of Cases . . ix

Introduction . . 1
1. Incentives and Reasons . . 5
2. Values and Human Nature . . 27
3. Right and Wrong . . 47
4. Questions of Trust . . 69
5. Autonomy and Freedom . . 89
6. Obedience, Freedom, and Engagement—or Utility? . . 105
7. Society, Property, and Commerce . . 123
8. On Justice . . 137
9. Using Freedom Well . . 155
10. Judging: Legal Cases and Moral Questions . . 171
11. Practical Reason, Law, and State . . 193

Index . . 211

Series
(Law, State, and Practical Reason)

Access to medicine in the global economy : international agreements on patents and related rights

Obrazy
Autor
Cynthia M. Ho
Place of publication
New York
Publication date
2011
Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables . . vii
Preface . . ix
Acknowledgments . . xi
Introduction . . xiii

PART ONE | BACKGROUND
1. From Conception to Commercial Success . . 3
2. A Limitation on the Patent Right to Exclude: An Introduction to International Exhaustion . . 35

PART TWO | THE CURRENT FRAMEWORK
3. An Introduction to TRIPS . . 55
4. Freedom under TRIPS: India as an Example . . 89
5. Compulsory Licensing under TRIPS: An Introduction . . 125
6. Compulsory License Case Study: An Introduction to Competing Patent Perspectives . . 157
7. Complicated Compulsory Licenses: The Waiver/Article 31 bis "Solution" . . 195

PART THREE | THE EVOLVING FRAMEWORK
8. An Overview of "TRIPS-Plus" Standards . . 223
9. Beyond Patents: Protecting Drugs through Regulatory Laws . . 253
10. Suspensions of In-Transit "Generic Drugs": A Case Study of Competing Perspectives . . 285
11. A History of Access to Medicine through the Lens of Patent Perspectives . . 325
12. Looking Toward the Future . . 355

APPENDICES
Appendix A: Selected TRIPS Provisions . . 375
Appendix B: Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health . . 382
Appendix C: Draft Ministerial Declaration (Developed Countries) . . 384
Appendix D: Draft Ministerial Declaration (Developing Countries) . . 386
Appendix E: Glossary of Terms . . 390

INDEX . . 399

The culture of power and the power of culture : old regime Europe 1660-1789

Obrazy
Autor
T. C.W. Blanning
Place of publication
Oxford
Publication date
2002
Table of Contents

Preface . . VII
List of Plates . . XI
List of Tables . . XV

Introduction: The Culture of Power and the Power of Culture . . 1
PART I - REPRESENTATIONAL CULTURE . . 29
PART II - THE RISE OF THE PUBLIC SPHERE . . 103
PART III - REVOLUTION . . 185

Select bibliography . . 443
Index . . 463

Practices of looking : an introduction to visual culture

Obrazy
Autor
Marita Sturken and Lisa Cartwright
Place of publication
Oxford
Publication date
2001
Table of Contents

Introduction 1
1 Practices of Looking: Images, Power, and Politics 10
2 Viewers Make Meaning 45
3 Spectatorship, Power, and Knowledge 72
4 Reproduction and Visual Technologies 109
5 The Mass Media and the Public Sphere 151
6 Consumer Culture and the Manufacturing of Desire 189
7 Postmodernism and Popular Culture 237
8 Scientific Looking, Looking at Science 279
9 The Global Flow of Visuai Culture 315
Notes 345
Further Reading 346
Glossary 349
Picture Credits 371
Lndex 375