Out of Sight, Out of Mind: A visualization of drone strikes in Pakistan since 2004 Eyewitnessing, The Uses of Images as Historical Evidence What place do images hold among other kinds of historical evidence? In Eyewitnessing, Peter Burke reviews graphics, photographs, films, and other media from many countries and periods and examines their pragmatic uses. This profusely illustrated book surveys the opportunities and the challenges of using images to understand other times. In a thorough and compelling defense of the importance of the visual to history, Burke argues that images should not be considered mere reflections of their time and place, but rather extensions of the social contexts in which they were produced. The author describes and evaluates the methods by which art historians have traditionally analyzed images, and finds them insufficient to deal with the complexities of visual imagery. In developing a richer mode of visual interpretation, Burke devotes much attention to religious icons and narratives and political propaganda posters, caricatures, and maps.
Black Hearts Conrad Black Conrad Black is a controversial former media baron who renounced his Canadian citizenship to become a British Lord, and later spent time in an American jail for fraud. Mysticism Engelhardt, Field of Nightmares [ Note for TomDispatch readers: This is part two of my series on how Washington helped create its enemies in the post-9/11 era. Part one was “ The Enemy-Industrial Complex .” Also, I can't resist mentioning that I -- and so TomDispatch -- was named "Truthdigger of the week" at the invaluable website Truthdig.com. To read Alexander Kelly's piece on TD and me accompanying that honor, click here . Filling the Empty Battlefield Jeremy Scahill, Blowback Reporter By Tom Engelhardt Chalmers Johnson’s book Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire was published in March 2000 -- and just about no one noticed. After the Soviet Union disappeared in 1991, he was surprised to discover that the essential global structure of that other Cold War colossus, the American superpower, with its vast panoply of military bases, remained obdurately in place as if nothing whatsoever had happened. Talk about unintended consequences! Chalmers Johnson was, you might say, our first blowback scholar.
Mysticism This Is What Winning Looks Like By Ben Anderson US Specialist Christopher Saenz looks out over the landscape during a patrol outside the village of Musa Qala, Helmand province. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd) I didn’t plan on spending six years covering the war in Afghanistan. I went there in 2007 to make a film about the vicious fighting between undermanned, underequipped British forces and the Taliban in Helmand, Afghanistan’s most violent province. But I became obsessed with what I witnessed there—how different it was from the conflict’s portrayal in the media and in official government statements. In 2006, when troops were sent into Helmand, British command didn’t think there’d be much fighting at all. But with each year that followed, casualties and deaths rose as steadily as the local opium crop. In February 2013, on his last day at the helm of NATO forces in Afghanistan, General John R. November 2012 – “Chai Boys” Lieutenant Will Felder, left, after speaking with a villager in the Baghran Valley in Helmand province. “Huh?”
artworks tagged "allegories-and-symbols" Homepagetag: allegories-and-symbols tag: allegories-and-symbols 3756 Paintings were found Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ... 63 Next The Charmer - John William Waterhouse, 1911 Four Allegories Falsehood (Wisdom) - Giovanni Bellini, c.1490 Four Allegories: Fortune (or Melancholy) - Giovanni Bellini, c.1490 Sacred Allegory - Giovanni Bellini, 1490-1500 Time Arrested by Death - Gian Lorenzo Bernini Truth Unveiled by Time - Gian Lorenzo Bernini, c.1645-c.1652 Allegory of Abundance - Sandro Botticelli, 1480-1485 Fortitude - Sandro Botticelli, c.1470 Primavera - Sandro Botticelli, 1478 Young Man Greeted by Seven Liberal Arts - Sandro Botticelli, 1486-1490 All Saints day I - Wassily Kandinsky, 1911 All Saints day II - Wassily Kandinsky, 1911 Farewell - Wassily Kandinsky, 1903 Lady in Moscow - Wassily Kandinsky, 1912 Moscow I - Wassily Kandinsky, 1916 Russian beauty in a landscape - Wassily Kandinsky, 1905 St. Pierrot (Self Portrait as Pierrot) - Amedeo Modigliani, 1915 Day of the Gods - Paul Gauguin, 1894