Arnheim, gestalt and media : an ontological theory /: an ontological theory. ([2018])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Ian Verstegen.
• Authors: Verstegen, Ian
• Contents: Intro; Preface; Contents; Chapter 1: Arnheim After the Post-medium Condition; 1.1 Medium and System Skepticism; 1.2 The Changing Landscape; 1.3 Rudolf Arnheim; 1.4 Revisiting Essentialism; 1.5 Description and Norms; Chapter 2: Gestalt Ontology; 2.1 Gestalt Ontology; 2.2 Against Physicalism; 2.3 Strata for Objects, Wholes for Composites; 2.4 Revisiting Media Essentialism; 2.5 Dominating Strata; 2.6 Relational Determination of Media Effects; Chapter 3: What All Media Share; 3.1 Medial Objects as Cultural Objects; 3.2 All Medial Statements Are Spatial; 3.3 The Robin and the Saint 3.4 Levels of Determinate AbstractionChapter 4: Defining Difference in Media; 4.1 Mediation: Eye and Ear; 4.2 Mediation: Media; 4.3 Materialtheorie and Representational Concepts; 4.4 Accident and Determinacy; 4.5 Mechanical Registration and Reproducibility; 4.6 Content and Interpretation; 4.7 Art as Mediation; Chapter 5: The Two Elementary Classes of Aesthetic Objects: Spatial and Temporal Modalities; 5.1 Spatial Versus Temporal Arts; 5.2 Ontology of Co-existence and Sequence; 5.3 Distinction Between Spatial and Temporal Arts; 5.4 The Range of Identity of the Spatial and Temporal Arts 5.5 Structure Versus Knowledge of StructureChapter 6: The Spatial and Temporal Modalities; 6.1 Modality; 6.2 Spatial Modalities; 6.3 Spatial Hybrids; 6.4 Difference Between Object and Environment Modalities; 6.5 Difference Between Image and Object Modalities; 6.6 Difference Between Image and Environment Modalities; 6.7 Temporal Modalities; 6.8 Temporal Hybrids; 6.9 Difference Between Temporal Modalities; Chapter 7: The Ontology of the Individual Modalities; 7.1 The Range of Identity of the Pictorial Work; 7.1.1 Pictorial Materials; 7.1.2 Pictorial Materials: Photography 7.2 The Range of Identity of the Sculptural Work7.2.1 Sculptural Materials; 7.3 The Range of Identity of the Building; 7.3.1 Architectural Materials; 7.4 The Range of Identity of the Pantomime; 7.4.1 The Range of Identity of Absolute Pantomime; 7.4.2 The Range of Identity of Enriched Pantomime; 7.4.3 Pantomimic Materials: The Color Film; 7.5 The Range of Identity of the Musical Work; 7.6 The Range of Identity of the Literary Work; 7.6.1 Literary Material: Radio; Chapter 8: Medial Composites; 8.1 Arnheim's Argument; 8.2 Laws of Dominant Media and, for Temporal Media, Completeness 8.3 How Are Spatial and Temporal Modalities Related?8.4 Artistic Composites of Spatial Modalities; 8.4.1 Object and Environment; 8.4.2 Image and Object; 8.4.3 Environment and Image; 8.5 Artistic Composites of Temporal Modalities; 8.5.1 Speech and Pantomime; 8.5.2 Theatre; 8.5.3 The Talking Film; 8.5.4 Music and Poetry; 8.5.5 Opera; 8.5.6 Music and Pantomime; 8.6 A Case Study: Comics; Chapter 9: Conclusion: Medial Wisdom
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2018
• Copyright Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 700.1; Art -- Philosophy; ART / Criticism & Theory; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030029708; 3030029700
• Related ISBNs: 9783030029692
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 22, 2019).
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