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Photographers on Photography: A Critical Anthology

Lyons, Nathan

PRENTICE/HALL

Modern thought is characterized by a dichotomy of meaningful culture and unmeaning nature. Signs in the Dust uses medieval semiotics to develop a new theory of nature and culture that resists this familiar picture of things. Through readings of Thomas Aquinas, Nicholas of Cusa, and John Poinsot (John of St. Thomas), it offers a semiotic analysis of human culture in both its anthropological breadth as an enterprise of creaturely sign-making, and its theological height as a finite participation in the Trinity, which can be understood as an absolute 'cultural nature'. Signs in the Dust then extends this account of human culture backwards into the natural depth of biological and physical nature. It puts the biosemiotics of its medieval sources, along with Félix Ravaisson's philosophy of habit, into dialogue with the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis that is emerging in contemporary biology, to show how all living things participate in semiosis, so that that a cultural dimension is present through the whole order of nature and the whole of natural history. It also retrieves Aquinas' doctrine of intentions in the medium to show how signification can be attributed in a diminished way to even inanimate nature, with the ontological implication that being as such should be reconceived in semiotic terms. The phenomena of human culture are therefore to be understood not as breaks with a meaningless nature, but instead as heightenings and deepenings of natural movements of meaning that long precede and far exceed us. Against the modern divorce of nature and culture, Signs in the Dust argues that culture is natural and nature is cultural, through and through.

Signs in the Dust: A Theory of Natural Culture and Cultural Nature

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Oxford University Press

Street photography in the snapshot tradition: "a modern iconography--a careful exploration in perception--a series with its own continuity and time relationships--commonplace juxtapositions--sequences--notations in passing." Lyons is a significant and respected photography teacher, founder and director of the Visual Studies Workshop and a former Associate Director and Curator of the George Eastman House. 121 pages; 96 full-page b&amp;w photographic plates; 9 x 8.25 inches.

Notations in Passing

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Mit Pr

Riding 1st Class on the Titanic: Photographs by Nathan Lyons

Addison Gallery of Amer Art

foreword by Adam Weinberg essay by Leroy Searle Taking up where Notations in Passing left off, Riding 1st Class on the Titanic encompasses Nathan Lyons's work from 1974 to the present. Like the earlier book, this one consists primarily of a series of paired images, beautifully sequenced by the photographer, with very little text. Found language, such as that on building facades and signs, plays a prominent role in many of the sequences. The book, which accompanies a traveling exhibition organized by the Addison Gallery of American Art, contains a foreword by Adam Weinberg, Director of the Addison Gallery, and an essay by Leroy Searle. The title refers to the paradox of the Titanic, a symbol of invulnerability that became the carrier of our ultimate vulnerability. Lyons's work investigates the value systems that we have embraced, only to discover that their elusive meanings do more to challenge our belief systems than to reinforce them. Copublished with The Addison Gallery of American Art. EXHIBITION SCHEDULE: Addison Gallery of American Art Phillips Academy Andover, Massachusetts January 15-March 19, 2000 International Center of Photography New York, New York April-June 2000 International Museum of Photography and Film George Eastman House Rochester, New York July-October 2000 Albin O. Kuhn Library and Gallery University of Maryland Baltimore, Maryland Fall 2000 Venue for winter 2001 to be announced California Museum of Photography University of California, Riverside Spring 2001

Individual Artists

Verbal Landscape/Dinosaur Sat Down

Test Preparation

College & High School

Cepa Gallery

God and Being (Elements in Religion and Monotheism)

Religion & Spirituality

Cambridge University Press

This Element examines how the Western philosophical-theological tradition between Plato and Aquinas understands the relation between God and being. It gives a historical survey of the two major positions in the period: (a) that the divine first principle is 'beyond being' (e.g. Plato, Plotinus, and Pseudo-Dionysius), and (b) that the first principle is 'being itself' (e.g. Augustine, Avicenna, and Aquinas). The Element argues that we can recognise in the two traditions, despite their apparent contradiction, complementary approaches to a shared project of inquiry into transcendence.

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