Picturing "picturing" -- Fictions -- Openings -- Time -- Vividness -- Performance -- Sketching -- Skill -- Co-creation -- Maps & rules -- Abstractions -- Eyes, ocular vision, & media -- Memory & fantasy -- Synesthesia -- Signifiers -- Belief -- Models -- The part & the whol...

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1. Verfasser:	Mendelsund, Peter (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Ausgabe:	First Vintage Books edition
Schlagworte:	Lesen Imagination Books and reading Phenomenology Visual perception in literature LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics ART / General
Zusammenfassung:	Picturing "picturing" -- Fictions -- Openings -- Time -- Vividness -- Performance -- Sketching -- Skill -- Co-creation -- Maps & rules -- Abstractions -- Eyes, ocular vision, & media -- Memory & fantasy -- Synesthesia -- Signifiers -- Belief -- Models -- The part & the whole -- It is blurred A fully illustrated exploration into the phenomenology of reading -- how we visualize images from reading works of literature, from one of our very best book jacket designers, himself a passionate reader. What do we see when we read? Did Tolstoy really describe Anna Karenina? Did Melville ever really tell us what, exactly, Ishmael looked like? The collection of fragmented images on a page -- a graceful ear there, a stray curl, a hat positioned just so -- and other clues and signifiers helps us to create an image of a character. But in fact our sense that we know a character intimately has little to do with our ability to concretely picture our beloved -- or reviled -- literary figures. Knopf's Associate Art Director Peter Mendelsund combines his profession, as an award-winning designer; his first career, as a classically trained pianist; and his first love, literature -- he considers himself first and foremost as a reader -- into one of the most provocative and unusual investigations into how we understand the act of reading
Beschreibung:	xix, 419 Seiten Illustrationen 21 cm
ISBN:	9780804171632