Urban scenes of contested human identity: 'capturing the glances of others, the vistas of the world'

This article provisionally concludes earlier research on picture formats in representations of urban environments, on the scenic tradition's typiconic features and on its affiliation with a worldview frame associated with parallelist philosophical conceptions. The argument ranges from the moti...

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Main Author: Dirk van den Berg
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Language:English
Published: University of the Free State 2024-12-01
Series:Acta Academica
Online Access:https://journals.ufs.ac.za/index.php/aa/article/view/8861
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description This article provisionally concludes earlier research on picture formats in representations of urban environments, on the scenic tradition's typiconic features and on its affiliation with a worldview frame associated with parallelist philosophical conceptions. The argument ranges from the motif of a single eye, via its cypiconic augmentation by pathos formulae of human actions and settings, to the field of visual narration by means of scenic description. In conclusion, examples of South African pictures are analysed in terms of key notions such as aposcopic vision in the scenic mode as a pathos formula or the theme of the social sublime.
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spelling doaj-art-36ea01c8cb8a4294ad8d9aef25a16b912024-12-07T11:38:10ZengUniversity of the Free StateActa Academica0587-24052415-04792024-12-01313Urban scenes of contested human identity: 'capturing the glances of others, the vistas of the world'Dirk van den Berg This article provisionally concludes earlier research on picture formats in representations of urban environments, on the scenic tradition's typiconic features and on its affiliation with a worldview frame associated with parallelist philosophical conceptions. The argument ranges from the motif of a single eye, via its cypiconic augmentation by pathos formulae of human actions and settings, to the field of visual narration by means of scenic description. In conclusion, examples of South African pictures are analysed in terms of key notions such as aposcopic vision in the scenic mode as a pathos formula or the theme of the social sublime. https://journals.ufs.ac.za/index.php/aa/article/view/8861
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Urban scenes of contested human identity: 'capturing the glances of others, the vistas of the world'
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title Urban scenes of contested human identity: 'capturing the glances of others, the vistas of the world'
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