Objects of Vision: Making Sense of What We See Saab A. Joan
Objects of Vision: Making Sense of What We See Saab A. Joan Advances in technology allow us to see the invisible: fetal heartbeats, seismic activity, cell mutations, virtual space. This book…
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Objects of Vision: Making Sense of What We See Saab A. Joan
Advances in technology allow us to see the invisible: fetal heartbeats, seismic activity, cell mutations, virtual space. This book considers the ways in which seeing, over time, has become the foundation for knowing (or at least for what we think we know).A. Yet in an age when experience is so intensely mediated by visual records, the centuries-old realization that knowledge gained through sight is inherently fallible takes on troubling new dimensions.
Through a series of linked case studies that highlight moments of seeming disconnect between seeing and believing--hoaxes, miracles, spirit paintings, Joan Saab examines the scientific and socially constructed aspects of seeing in order to delineate a genealogy of visuality from the Renaissance to the present, demonstrating that what we see and how we see it are often historically situated and culturally constructed.
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