The Virtual Window: From Alberti to Microsoft

by Anne Friedberg

Book Overview

From the Renaissance idea of the painting as an open window to the nested windows and multiple images on today's cinema, television, and computer screens: a cultural history of the metaphoric, literal, and virtual window.

As we spend more and more of our time staring at the screens of movies, televisions, computers, and handheld devices--"windows" full of moving images, texts, and icons--how the world is framed has become as important as...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262512505
• ISBN13: 9780262512503
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 357 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher