Umbruch und Aufbruch in der spätantiken Ästhetik
| Title in English | Upheaval and awakening in late antique aesthetics |
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| Year of publication | 2024 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Zeitschrift für archäologische Aufklärung |
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| Citation | |
| web | https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-6945-9/zeitschrift-fuer-archaeologische-aufklaerung/?c=312030607 |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.14361/zfaa-2024-010212 |
| Keywords | Mosaics; digital images; late antique aesthetics; fragmentation; jeweled style; stained glass |
| Description | The world of images that surrounds us is interspersed with countless backlit digital images consisting of millions of pixels. Invisible to the naked eye, they only become recognisable when they are greatly enlarged or otherwise altered and adjusted. The basic unit that makes up a digital image, the pixel - a small square that is smaller the more defined the image is - is deeply anchored in the popular imagination of the present, for example through so-called pixel art. Both out of nostalgia and because of its characteristic style, this method of image creation has established itself as a digital art form. Composed of smaller units that make up a larger image, these digital images are subject to the compositional principles of fragmentation and deconstruction, principles that - perhaps surprisingly - found similar applications in the visual arts and even in literature fifteen centuries ago. |
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