Tabla de Contenidos: “…Conté: 1. The blank slate, the noble savage, and the ghost in the machine. …”

“…His book provides an original and provocative framework within which to read NDiaye as a simultaneously hybrid and hyper-French cultural figure, fascinating and fantastical practitioner of the postmodern - and reluctantly postcolonial - 'blank arts'…”

“…Until recently still a blank spot on the world map of art, China today occupies one of the top positions in the rankings of the global art market and has moved into the center of the speculations and the covetousness of its protagonists. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Basic analog-to-digital conversionESSAY: Oversampling; Factors affecting convertor quality; ESSAY: Digitizing component video; Colour in the digital domain; References; CHAPTER 5 Digital Video Processing; Introduction; A simple digital vision mixer; Blanking; Keying; Chroma keying; Simple effects; Planar digital video effects; Address generation and interpolation; Skew and rotation; Perspective rotation; Non-planar effects; Controlling effects; Graphics; ESSAY: Converting between computer and video formats; Graphic art/paint systems; Linear and non-linear editing; Online and offline editing…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Bland Real absence : imagining God in Turco-Persian book arts, 1300-1600 CE / Christiane J. Gruber Aesthetic sensations of Mary : the miraculous icon of Meryem Ana and the dynamics of interreligious relations in Antakya / Jens Kreinath The Ahl-i Beyt bodies : the mural paintings of Lahijan in the tradition of Persian Shiite figurations / Pedram Khosronejad Photographic practices and the 'aesthetics of withdrawal' among Muslims of the East African coast / Heike Behrend Moulded imaginaries : icons, idols and the sensory environments of Eastern Orthodox Christianity / Sonja Luehrmann From Ponte Sant'Angelo to Basilica di San Pietro : figuration and sensation in Bernini's pilgrimage route in Rome / Øyvind Norderval Figuration and 'aesthetics of the sublime': aspects of their interplay in Christian art / Else Marie Bukdahl Seeing, hearing and narrating Salome : modernist sensual aesthetics and the role of narrative blanks / Ulrike Brunotte The art of incarnation : loss and return of religion in Houellebecq's Submission / Christiane Kruse…”

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