Seeing from Above: The Aerial View in Visual Culture

Mark Dorrian

ISBN 10: 1780764618 / ISBN 13: 9781780764610

Published by I.B.Tauris, 2013

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Seeing from Above: The Aerial View in Visual Culture
• Publisher: I.B.Tauris
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1780764618
• ISBN 13: 9781780764610
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 470 grams

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Synopsis

The view from above, or the 'bird's-eye' view, has become so ingrained in contemporary visual culture that it is now hard to imagine our world without it. It has risen to pre-eminence as a way of seeing, but important questions about its effects and meanings remain unexplored. More powerfully than any other visual modality, this image of 'everywhere' supports our idea of a world-view, yet it is one that continues to be transformed as technologies are invented and refined. This innovative volume, edited by Mark Dorrian and Frederic Pousin, offers an unprecedented range of discussions on the aerial view, covering topics from sixteenth-century Roman maps to the Luftwaffe's aerial survey of Warsaw to Google Earth. Underpinned by a cross-disciplinary approach that draws together diverse and previously isolated material, this volume examines the politics and poetics of the aerial view in relation to architecture, art, film, literature, photography and urbanism and explores its role in areas such as aesthetics and epistemology. Structured through a series of detailed case studies, this book builds into a cultural history of the aerial imagination.

About the Author

Mark Dorrian holds the Forbes Chair in Architecture at the University of Edinburgh and is Co-Director of the art, architecture and urbanism atelier Metis.