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Author Archives: noayaari
Indeterminate Multiform References
Indeterminate multiform References (MFRs) begon with terms whose semantic relatedness with terms in the caption or the image is vague and challenging to classify; it is neither a clear semantic similarity, meronym-holonym or any other relatedness; however, indeterminate MFRs seem … Continue reading
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Implicit Multiform References
Implicit multiform references (MFRs) generate shifts of attention through semantic relatedness between the MFA’s verbal and visual components and their visual features without announcing their operation. For example, the presence of both the word “cat” and an image of a … Continue reading
Posted in Contemplations, Dissertation, My Art
Explicit Multiform References
Multiform references (MFRs) are classified into three main types: explicit, implicit and indeterminate. Within a multiform argument (MFA), an explicit MFR announces its own juxtaposition of the verbal and visual components, usually through brackets in the main text, and at … Continue reading
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Multiform References
The integration of the verbal and visual components of multiform arguments (MFAs) into a cohesive utterance is possible by juxtaposing and entangling the semantic and visual aspects of words and images. This is feasible since printed words and printed images … Continue reading
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Multiformity vs. Multimodality
The concept “multiformity” resonates with the concept “multimodality,” not only in the way it looks and sounds, but also the broad social and cultural contexts from which it develops and to which it is addressed. Both concepts allow us to … Continue reading
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What are Multiform Arguments?
Multiform arguments (hereafter MFAs) are arguments that are composed of words and images. MFAs claim that a certain phenomenon has happened or explain the reasons for its occurrence. I became aware of MFAs while reading illustrated historiography, especially of cultural … Continue reading
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History Sells
Noa Yaari, History Sells (homage to Andy Worhol), 2015. A bookmark. 20.5 x 5 cm. Toronto
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In the
Noa Yaari, I Lose Control, 2018. Ink on paper. 21 x 27 cm. Toronto Image source – Sandro Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus (1482-1485): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birth_of_Venus#/media/File:Venus_botticelli_detail.jpg
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What Makes Visual Evidence “Evidence”?
Alfa Romeo 4C Spider In April’s post, I asked if – within the industry of creating and communicating historical knowledge – there is any epistemological significance to visual evidence that was photographed by the historian who writes about it. I … Continue reading
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Historians Photograph their Visual Evidence
The visual material in illustrated historiography usually results from a chain of practices, most noticeable are the artistic creation, the photographing of the artwork, and the printing of that photograph in the book. This chain of practices is the industry … Continue reading
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