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)