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Devices of wonder : from the world in an box to images on a screen
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ISBN: 0892365900 9780892365906 Year: 2001 Publisher: Getty Publications

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An inquiry into emergent media's rich lineage, Devices of Wonder explores the artful machines humans have used to augment visual perception.The encyclopedic cabinet of curiosities serves as a model for this study of the archaic instruments lurking in state-of-the art technology. Featured in Devices of Wonder are android automata, lunar landscapes, perspective theaters, vues d'optique, microscopes, magnetic games, magic lanterns,camera obscuras, boxes by Joseph Cornell, Lucas Samaras's Mirrored Room, Suzanne Anker's Zoosemiotics, Mark Tilden's UniBug 3.1, panoramic works by Jeff Wall and Giovanni Lusieri, paintings by Jean-Baptiste Chardin and Joseph Wright of Derby, projections by Diana Thater and James Turrell, and apop-up book by Kara Walker.Barbara Stafford's introduction weaves these fascinating artifacts into a provocative narrative analyzing the complex links between old and new media. Her wide-ranging investigation is complemented by thirty-one short essays in which Frances Terpak tracks the often surprising connections amongindividual items. Like the cabinet of curiosities, Devices of Wonder functions as an analogical instrument, reframing the beautiful "eye machines" that continue to mediate our encounters with the world.


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International journal of optomechatronics.
ISSN: 15599620 15599612 Year: 2007 Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. : Taylor and Francis,

Secret knowledge : rediscovering the lost techniques of the old masters
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ISBN: 0500237859 9780500237854 Year: 2001 Publisher: London Thames and Hudson

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David Hockney rewrites the history of art, revealing the extraordinary ways in which the Old Masters used optical devices to produce their work.

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