You Saw the Whole of the Moon
The Role of Imagination in the Perceptual Construction of the Moon
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10272906 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Colleen Boyle (Colleen Boyle (artist, writer, academic), 176 Errol Street, North Melbourne, Victoria 3051, Australia.., corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 246-252 |
| Publication date | 2013-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Leonardo (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0024-094X • E-ISSN: 1530-9282 |
| Publisher | MIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1162/leon_a_00564 |
| OpenAlex | W2076149093 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 4 |
The author offers a short history of how our perceptual relationship with the Moon has changed over time. Examples of lunar imaging by Early Renaissance painter Jan Van Eyck, Leonardo da Vinci, Galileo, 19th-century photographer James Nasmyth and NASA's Ranger and Lunar Orbiter missions of the 1960s reveal ways in which our perception of the Moon has changed. Images of the Moon produced by technology remain far from “complete”—they are akin to fragments, sketches or models, providing information upon which the imagination can build. How we imagine the Moon, the author argues, is symbiotically linked with our representations of it; we only perceive the truly complete, whole Moon in the non-localized zone of our imaginations
Apollo · Art · Art history · Astrobiology · Astronomy · Epistemology · Far side of the Moon · Galileo (satellite navigation) · Orbiter · Painting · Perception · Physics · Remote sensing · The Renaissance · Visual arts · Archaeological Research and Protection · Geology · Geophysics · History · History of Science and Medicine · Philosophy · Photography and Visual Culture
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,11 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2017 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |