Seeing from above : the aerial view in visual culture /: the aerial view in visual culture. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Mark Dorrian and Frédéric Pousin.
• Authors: Dorrian, Mark; Pousin, Frédéric
• Contents: > List of Figures> Acknowledgements> List of Contributors> Introduction/Mark Dorrian and Frederic Pousin1. Intimate Communiques: Melchior Lorck's Flying Tortoise/ Marina Warner2. The Meaning of Roman Maps: Etienne Duperac and Antonio Tempesta/Michael Bury3. Thomas Baldwin's Airopaidia, or the Aerial View in Colour/Marie Thebaud-Sorger4. European Cities from a Bird's-eye View: The Case of Alfred Guesdon/Jean-Marc Besse5. Nadar's Aerial View/Stephen Bann6. Transfiguring Reality: Suprematism and the Aerial View/ Christina Lodder7. Aerial Views and Cinematism, 1898-1939/Teresa Castro8. 'The Domain of Rrose Selaby": Dust Breeding and Aerial Photography/David Hopkins9. The Aviator and the Photographer: The Case of Walter Mittelholzer/Olivier Lugon10. From the Sky to the Ground: The Aerial View and the Ideal of the Vive Raisonee in Geography during the 1920s/Marie-Claire Robic11. The Figure from Above: On the Obliqueness of the Plan in Urbanism and Architecture/John Macarthur12. The City Seen from the Aeroplane: Distorted Reflections and Urban Futures/Nathalie Roseau13. Vectors of Looking: Reflections on the Luftwaffe's Aerial Survey of Warsaw, 1944/Ella Chmielewska14. The Aerial View and the Grands Ensembles/Frederic Pousin15. Robert Smithson and Aerial Art/Gilles A. Tiberghien16. On Google Earth/Mark Dorrian> Index.
• Publisher Details: London : I.B. Tauris
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (336 pages)
• Subjects: 778.3509; Aerial photography -- History; Visual sociology
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780857734327; 0857734326
• Related ISBNs: 9781780764603
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