The Virtual Window: From Alberti to Microsoft

by Anne Friedberg

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From the Renaissance idea of the painting as an open window to the nested windows and multiple images on today's cinema, television, and computer screens: a cultural history of the metaphoric, literal, and virtual window.

As we spend more and more of our time staring at the screens of movies, televisions, computers, and handheld devices--"windows" full of moving images, texts, and icons--how the world is framed has become as important as...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0262512505

ISBN13:9780262512503

Release Date:February 2009

Publisher:MIT Press

Length:357 Pages

Weight:2.05 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 7.0" x 9.0"

Age Range:18 years and up

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

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Architecture Art Arts, Music & Photography Communication & Journalism Communication & Media Studies Criticism Education & Reference Humanities Media Studies Reference Social Science Social Sciences Textbooks

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