The Pierpont Morgan Library has no less than three (3) of the eleven Gutenberg Bibles in the United States!I don’t know how to give a brief description of it, but regardless of its function, size, value, it was perhaps the building I entered that most impressed me as many as I may have entered.In the …
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Where to find illuminations and Gutenberg Bibles
Of the 10 Gutenberg Bibles in the United States, one is in the New York Library and three in the Pierport Morgan Library. They are not illuminations, but they are the link between them and the books made possible by the invention of Gutemberg. Take a look at the Illuminations, the Gutenberg Bible Detail, and …
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O caso das iluminuras
Anatomia das iluminuras Ingo F.Walther/Norbert Wolf – Masterpieces of illumination Exemplo: Les Très Belles Heures de Notre-Dame du Duc de Berry, 1380-1412 (Folio 76 verso / 77 recto) Na foto acima, as indicações (1) e (2) são, respectivamente, o Verso e o Recto. Os Manuscritos Medievais parecem livros, mas não são. Suas paginas não eram numeradas consecutivamente, que …
The case of print visual culture
Visual space Visual space, Cavell explains, is not space filled with visuals or images, it is not the contemporary mediascape, but instead it is space that is easily demarcated with vision, it is space that is highly regular (like the standard printed page), and it tends to be static. One way to understand McLuhan’s famous …
The case of perspective or point of view
Veja em Português See: Why Visual Cultures do not have perspective Point of view: Understanding Why Socrates and Jesus Christ didn’t write anything? Everything we know from Socrates comes from Plato, that tells us the following, in Phaedrus: “The discovery of the alphabet will create forgetfulness in the learner’s souls, because they will not use …
The case of photography and two dimensional images
Perhaps this article should be called: Reality and virtual images In Rome, the Church of St. Ignatius of Loyola has installed a mirror so that visitors can “plunge” into famous trompe l’oeil by painter Andrea Pozzo (1642-1709) In On photography, Susan Sontag made a remark years ago: “Contrary to what is suggested by the humanist claims …
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Other possibilities of perception on what we see.
The case of photography and two dimensional images The case of print visual culture The case of perspective or point of view The case of Illuminations When McLuhan predicted Internet, and I quote: “The next medium, whatever it is — it may be the extension of consciousness — will include television as its content, not as its environment, and …
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To see and perceive what you see
Veja em Português This is a kind of explanation of what inside of us makes what The Medium is the Massage so aptly has demonstrated . This book, edited by Quentin Fiore and Jerome Agle, and published in 1967, which was the best seller of all books “McLuhan” with over a million copies sold worldwide, …
Ver e enxergar
See it in English A melhor forma para se entender o que está em jogo é entender o que acontece com uma pessoa cega de nascença que por efeito de uma cirurgia passa a ver. E o que ela enxerga? Ver como sendo o ato físico da impressão da luz que chega ao cérebro passando …
The medium is the message
Veja em Português Explained and discussed by Andrew McLuhan This entry is a transcription of the seminar Andrew McLuhan presented May 29th, 2020 by Mr Madhusudan Mukerjeey at Anant National University (India). It cant can be seen on You Tube.. (Observe that you can translate it to many languages if you see it in a Computer pressing …
Marshall McLuhan & Gutenberg 