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Et que dit ce silence ? la rhétorique du visible
Surgers, Anne, Et que dit ce silence ? la rhétorique du visible, Presses Sorbonne nouvelle, Paris 2007 Abstract Before writing became the medium of thought and knowledge, image was an essential mean of discourse transmission. And What Does This Silence Say? is a tool for the reading and translation of this silent language: that of painting, architecture or stage design, when the image still constituted an autonomous discourse and not simply an illustration of the word. This volume is presented as a dictionary. Its reader selects his paths following his questionings and desires: is he interested by a rhetorical term’s meaning? Or by its use? Does he want to assess…
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Never Mere Observation: Performance, Technology, and the Act of Looking
Krauter, Sarah G. Marsh, «Never Mere Observation: Performance, Technology, and the Act of Looking». Ph.D., , Ann Arbor, United States 2017 Abstract Herbert Blau, in defining the act of looking as “never mere observation”, describes how the action of the visual faculty is not simply about seeing, but the engagement in an active, circulatory exchange between culture and viewer. Never Mere Observation posits a dialectical relationship between spectatorship, performance, and emerging technologies. In this study, my aim is to track a pattern of ideas and use to assert the possible connections between the evolution of technology and the evolution of narrative structure. The biomechanical function of the act of looking…
