Skilled Visions : Between Apprenticeship and Standards.
Most arguments for a rediscovery of the body and the senses hinge on a critique of "visualism" in our globalized, technified society. This approach has led to a lack of actual research on the processes of visual "enskillment." Providing a comprehensive spectrum of case studies in...
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New York, NY :
Berghahn Books,
2007.
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Table of Contents:
- Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; Part I: Skilled Visions and the Ecology of Practice; Chapter 1 'To have the world at a distance': Reconsidering the Significance of Vision for Social Anthropology; Chapter 2 Good Looking: Learning to be a Cattle Breeder; Chapter 3 Icons and Transvestites: Notes on Irony, Cognition, and Visual Skill; Part II: Positioning Gestures of Design in Art, Architecture and Laboratories; Chapter 4 Seeing and Drawing: the Role of Play in Medical Imaging.
- Chapter 5 Learning within the Workplaces of Artists, Anthropologists and Architects: Making Stories for Drawings and WritingsChapter 6 Maps and Plans in 'Learning to See': the London Underground and Chartres Cathedral as Examples of Performing Design; Part III: The Social Schooling of the Eye in Scientific and Medical Settings; Chapter 7 CT Suite: Visual Apprenticeship in the Age of the Mechanical Viewbox; Chapter 8 Training the Naturalist's Eye in the Eighteenth Century: Perfect Global Visions and Local Blind Spots; Chapter 9 Navigating the Brainscape: When Knowing Becomes Seeing.
- EpilogueNotes on Contributors; Index.