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- a variety of social sectors (art, science, advertising)
- Addresses the relationship between image and observer, the relation between the forces, forms, and materiality of the images
- Uses plastic analysis (topology, colors, and shapes) and enunciative perspective to describe the relationship between image and observer more effectively
- Analyzes the materiality of images (features of the medium) in order to describe the “substance” of visual forms and their transformation from one medium to another
- Compares semiotic qualitative analysis (close reading) and quantitative analysis of images (distant reading, via automatic extraction of visual features) to examine fundamental formal characteristics of images
- Includes a chapter on metavisual devices and operations that illuminates the grammar of scientific and artistic images
- Discusses the theories which are tested on a variety of corpora for analysis, including both paintings and photographs, taken from traditional as well as contemporary sources in
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Morphogenesis (LECTMORPH)
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
The second issue addressed is the relation between the forces, forms and materiality of the images. How do different physical mediums (pictorial, photographic and digital) influence visual forms? How does materiality affect the generativity of forms? On the forces within the images, the book addresses the philosophical thought of Gilles Deleuze and René Thom as well as the experiment of Aby Warburg’s Atlas Mnemosyne.
The theories discussed in the book are tested on a variety of corporafor analysis, including both paintings and photographs, taken from traditional as well as contemporary sources in a variety of social sectors (arts and sciences).
Finally, semiotic methodology is contrasted with the computational analysis of large collections of images (Big Data), such as the “Media Visualization” analyses proposed by Lev Manovich and Cultural Analytics in the field of Computer Science to evaluate the impact of automatic analysis of visual forms on Digital Art History and more generally on the image sciences.
Authors and Affiliations
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FNRS—National Fund for Scientific Research, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
Maria Giulia Dondero
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Language of Images
Book Subtitle: The Forms and the Forces
Authors: Maria Giulia Dondero
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Morphogenesis
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52620-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-52619-1Published: 19 August 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-52622-1Published: 19 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-52620-7Published: 18 August 2020
Series ISSN: 2195-1934
Series E-ISSN: 2195-1942
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 147
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 23 illustrations in colour
Topics: Image Processing and Computer Vision, Engineering Mathematics, Bioinformatics, Computational Linguistics, Fine Arts