Title & Author:

Seeing from above : the aerial view in visual culture / edited by Mark Dorrian and Frédéric Pousin.

Publication:

London : I.B. Tauris, 2013.

Description:

xxiv, 312 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Notes:
"This book is the result of a programme of seminars and conferences held in Edinburgh and Paris between February 2007 and October 2008 under the title The aerial view : spatial knowledge and spatial practices"--Acknowledgements.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Intimate communiqués : Melchior Lorck's flying tortoise / Marina Warner -- The meaning of Roman maps : Etienne Dupérac and Antonio Tempesta / Michael Bury -- Thomas Baldwin's Airopaidia, or the aerial view in colour / Marie Thébaud-Sorger -- European cities from a bird's-eye view : the case of Alfred Guesdon / Jean-Marc Besse -- Nadar's aerial view / Stephen Bann -- Transfiguring reality : suprematism and the aerial view / Christina Lodder -- Aerial views and cinematism, 1898-1939 / Teresa Castro -- "The domain of Rrose Sélavy" : Dust breeding and aerial photography / David Hopkins -- The aviator and the photographer : the case of Walter Mittelholzer / Olivier Lugon -- From the sky to the ground : the aerial view and the ideal of the Vue raisonnée in geography during the 1920s / Marie-Claire Robic -- The figure from above : on the obliqueness of the plan in urbanism and architecture / John Macarthur -- The city seen from the aeroplane : distorted reflections and urban futures / Nathalie Roseau -- Vectors of looking : reflections on the Luftwaffe's aerial survey of Warsaw, 1944 / Ella Chmielewska -- The aerial view and the Grands ensembles / Frédéric Pousin -- Robert Smithson and Aerial art / Gilles A. Tiberghien -- On Google Earth / Mark Dorrian.

Summary:

"The view from above, or the "birds-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 that range 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."--Back cover.

ISBN:

9781780764603 (hbk.)
178076460X (hbk.)
1780764618 (pbk.)
9781780764610 (pbk.)

Subject:

Mittelholzer, Walter 1894-1937
Aerial photography History.
Visual sociology.
Photographie aérienne Histoire.
Sociologie visuelle.
Aerial photography.
Vogelschaubild
Luftbild
Visuelle Medien
Vedute
Kunst
Luftfahrt
Flygfotografi.
Geografi.
Flygfotografi historia.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Dorrian, Mark, editor.
Pousin, Frédéric, editor.
Aerial view, spatial knowledge and spatial practices.

Aerial view in visual culture

Holdings:

Location: Library main 286382
Call No.: BIB 226668
Notes: pbk.
Status: Available