A vivid portrait of two remarkable twentieth-century thinkers and their landmark collaboration on the use and abuse of caricature and propaganda in the modern world In 1934, Viennese art historian and psychoanalyst Ernst Kris invited his mentee E. H. Gombrich to collaborate on a project that had implications for psychology and neuroscience, and foreshadowed their contributions to the Allied war effort. Their subject: caricature and its use and abuse in propaganda. Their co...

This anthology of hard-to-find primary documents provides a solid overview of the foundations of American media studies. Focusing on mass communication and society and how this research fits into larger patterns of social thought, this valuable collection features key texts covering the media studies traditions of the Chicago school, the effects tradition, the critical theory of the Frankfurt school, and mass society theory. Where possible, articles are reproduced in their entirety to pres...

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’UniversalisC'est l'imaginaire des vocations, de l'héroïsme artistique et du pouvoir des images, tel qu'on le trouve dans les biographies d'artistes, qui est l'objet de L'Image de l'artiste. Cet essai doit beaucoup au contexte intellectuel particulier de l'histoire de l'art à Vienne dans les années...Une fiche de lecture spécialement conçue pour le numérique, pour tout savoir sur L'Image de l'a...