Sentences with word «punctum»

If such is the case, it would suggest that the strength of electrical synapse (size and brightness of punctum) may be dependent on the proper composition and function of the gap junction channels formed between AVB and B motor neurons; little is known about what factors may regulate the size or positioning (cell soma or cell process) of gap junction plaques.

Unlike the more conspicuous perforations in Niven's Assassination Attempt, Wachs» Gin on the Rocks evokes the unexpected sharpness of Barthian punctum.

The being's chin is precariously hinged upon a glass plate and its toes hover above the ground, but its uncannily creepy punctum is a finger that irregularly quivers just as viewers consider whether the creature is animate.

«Usually it's reversible with a silicone plug but you can actually cauterize and close the punctum permanently.»

In my mind, film criticism is the avant - garde to the arrière - garde of film studies, the punctum to the studium of scholarship.

So while a medical story is being laid out, there is also what Barthes calls the punctum, the evocative detail that elevates the reportage to something more like poetry.

The condition is usually bilateral, i.e. affecting both eyes - when unilateral, i.e. when only one eye is affected, the punctum is generally narrowed rather than completely closed.

LRF: I realized the potential for using the camera as a weapon as described by Gordon Parks in his autobiography A Choice of Weapons [1966] when I first saw his photograph American Gothic [1942] in my photography class in 2000 when we were given an assignment to show a photograph with what Roland Barthes called a punctum (the thing that pricks you) and a studium (the subject) in a photograph.

Séamus Kealy invited artists, curators and writers to select photographs that are emblematic of «punctum».

Curated by Séamus Kealy, the exhibition takes its cue from the term «punctum», which was coined by the French philosopher Roland Barthes in his final book Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography.

Haynes observes: «Barthes describes the punctum as the rupture, the piercing; in this case the unexpected detail that mars the classical, standard and predictable, giving the picture its humanity.

The punctum wakes the viewer up, brings her into the moment, the present, the here and now.

For me, the punctum in this painting is the sight of the rounded forms on the old man's nose, which echo the spherical mole on his forehead.

He has published three monographs: Passing through Eden: Photographs of Central Park (Steidl, 2007), American Sports, 1970, or How We Spent the War in Vietnam (Aperture, 2008), and Opera Citta (punctum, 2010).

Uncomfortably nestled in advertising's visual language, these deviations ultimately serve as the punctum («that accident which pricks me») that make Williams's photographs merit a second look.

Consisting of 50 works chosen by artists, curators and writers, and including a series of lectures and a publication, Punctum takes its cue from the term «punctum» coined by Roland Barthes in his final book, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography.

By using Roland Barthes» theory of the «punctum», Khan writes about a certain personal touching detail of an object or person that jumps out of the photograph and holds his gaze.

People, places and things mentioned: Alice Neel, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Piero della Francesca, Jennifer Samet, Beer With a Painter, Roland Barthes and his concept of the studium and punctum (from Camera Lucida)...

We visited Jenny in her Long Island City studio, where we discussed the history of portraiture, how to play «find the punctum ``, and how she taught herself to paint using autopsy photos as sources.