Getting back in touch Kneebone, Roger
The Lancet,
04/2018, Letnik:
391, Številka:
10128
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Odprti dostop
...students are still taught the skills of clinical examination, although pressures to reduce hospital stay mean fewer opportunities to spend time examining patients.Digital technology provides far ...more accurate information than physical examination, and there is a sense that students no longer need to trust their fingers to see or that touching is a waste of time.
In 1906, Auguste Rodin created more than 150 drawings of the Cambodian Royal Ballet, a troupe brought by King Sisowath to the Colonial Exposition held in Marseille. The drawings' apparent simplicity ...belies their complex relations to colonial politics, the Cambodian dance technique, and Rodin's artistic project. Diffused through the mass media, they both habituated viewers to Rodin's controversial style and justified French domination of the Cambodian Protectorate. Though distorted by an unequal power dynamic, the drawings also allowed Sisowath to further his political goals and recorded performances now lost to history.
Once his reputation began to grow, the sculptor Auguste Rodin (1840–1917) turned his attention toward his self-image. In particular, Rodin established an artistic lineage in which he presented ...himself as the dual heir to Michelangelo and Dante, two of the leading figures of Italian art and literature. This article demonstrates that Rodin's identification with an artistic genius and a prophetic poet can be understood not only as part of a trend in artistic circles during the nineteenth century but also as a direct consequence of his own upbringing and family background.
Late in his life Rodin produced many thousand “instant drawings.” He asked models to make natural energetic movements, and he would draw them at high speed without looking at his hand or paper. To ...help understand his “blind drawing” process, the authors tracked the eye and hand movements of art students while they drew blind, copying complex lines presented to them as static images. The study found that line shape was correctly reproduced, but scaling could show major deficiencies not seen in Rodin's sketches. The authors propose that Rodin's direct vision-to-motor strategy, coupled with his high expertise, allowed him to accurately depict in one sweep the entire model, without “thoughts arresting the flow of sensations.”
On Drawing Dominiczak, Marek H
Clinical chemistry (Baltimore, Md.),
06/2017, Letnik:
63, Številka:
6
Journal Article
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Odprti dostop
...the majority of pre-Renaissance art was line based. ...life drawing can be helpful in learning medicine, enabling students to familiarize themselves, much like the artists do, with the structure ...of human body and its movements. ...active engagement with drawing as means of intellectual exploration is an important and probably underused part of learning in science and medicine. Author Contributions: All authors confirmed they have contributed to the intellectual content ofthispaper and have met the following 3 requirements: (a) significantcontributions to theconception anddesign, acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data; (b) drafting or revising the article for intellectual content; and (c) final approval ofthepublished article.
This is the first monograph exploring how, throughout its history, sculpture has provided a model to conceptualize photography as an art of mechanical reproduction. While there is a growing body of ...work examining how photography has contributed to the development of a Western 'sculptural imagination' by disseminating works, facilitating the investigation of the medium, or changing sculptural aesthetics, this study focuses on how sculpture has provided not only beautiful and convenient subject matter for photographs, or commercial and cultural opportunities for photographers in the market for art reproductions, but also an exemplar for thinking about photography as a medium based on mechanical means of production. In both media, processes from conception to realization involve apparatus that bypass the 'touch of the artist' - so important to enduring notions of the value of works of art.
The book closely analyses a number of case studies, from 1847 to the present, selected both to explicate the conceptual and technological continuities between the two media, and also because of how they illuminate the materiality of photographic objects. The final chapter considers the convergence of the two media in contemporary sculptural practices that use forms of 3D photography and computer-operated sculpting machines.
Rooted in an understanding of the practical, social and aesthetic implications of photographic as well as sculptural technologies, this volume demonstrates how photographs of sculpture are particularly useful in revealing how photography's changing materialities shape the meaning of images as they are made, circulated, looked at, written about and handled at different historical moments.
Os Passos da Glória Tavares, Maria
Interdisciplinary journal of Portuguese diaspora studies,
01/2013, Letnik:
2
Journal Article
Recenzirano
De expatriado, que tem a possibilidade de escolher viver fora do seu país por um dado período de tempo, ele passa a exilado, um proscrito, ser remetido às margens do seu próprio país, onde deixa de ...ter lugar: " (...) até chegar finalmente à conclusão de que o mal talvez não fosse dele, mas do país em que desgraçadamente tinha tido o azar de nascer, onde nem o povo nem as elites tinham a cultura e a preparação suficientes para compreender uma arte como a sua" (444). Através do seu trabalho artístico, contacta com a nata da sociedade americana da época e conhece aquela que viria a tornar-se sua esposa em 1908: é um novo Queiroz Ribeiro-agora Conde de Santa Eulália-que emerge neste cenário, perfeitamente ajustado às exigências do contexto social em que se movimenta, confortável na sua nova identidade. Contudo, o impacto de um exílio forçado da sua terra natal continua a fazer-se sentir nos pequenos eventos do dia-a-dia: seja na necessidade que sente de preservar determinados hábitos, como o da apreciação do bom vinho português (ainda que contra a vontade da esposa), seja na recusa em aceitar a introdução do automóvel como novo meio de transporte, e todo o conceito de modernidade que lhe é adjacente, ou na aquisição de cavalos lusitanos para se fazer transportar em Filadélfia. Dina Salústio (Cabo Verde), Paulina Chiziane (Moçambique) e Rosária da Silva (Angola), intitulado Mulheres que parem mundos: três olhares femininos sobre a nação africana lusófona pós-colonial.
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