transmission of pictorial information [continued]

1. Laocoon: words and images
2. visual telephone
3. Turntablist Transcription Methodology (TTM) aka scratch notation
4. TTM homepage
5. Sol LeWitt Wall Drawing #132, 1972
6. Wall Drawing #811, c. 1970
7. Dance Notation
8. history of musical notation

transmission of pictorial information

"Pictures are special cases. Pictures are problems," writes Morris Eaves, a historian of technology. This week we look at why, according to Eaves, the "historical demand for pictures has always outstripped supply."

"The history of art criticism in the last five hundred years has seen an accelerating shift from discourse designed to work with the object unavailable, to discourse assuming at least a reproduced presence of the object." Michael Baxandall, _Patterns of Intention_.


Titian: The Worship of Venus
Titian: Bacchanal of the Andrians
More Titian links
Blake: "Infant Joy" (plate 25 SIE copy Z)
image reconstitution again
Egyptian hieroglyphs
Laocoon sculptural grouping
Laocoon engravings
Alvin Lucier Sitting in a Room mp3
Alvin Lucier
vectors on a grecian urn
Wordseye: Text to Image Conversion
Sweet Dreams by Johanna Drucker (image description)

Resources and models for research

Mario Ascencio, the Art and Visual Technology librarian at GMU, has created a web site that includes links to and information on finding aids, indexes, databases, image collections, handbooks, dictionaries, and other print- and web-based resources for research in the visual arts. Most of the entries are concisely annotated.

Mark Grimsley talks about the blog as a research tool.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has a good Art History resource page.

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