A Review of “Cultures of the Erotic in Spain, 1898–1939, and A Virtual Wunderkammer: Early Twentieth Century Erotica in Spain”

Abstract

Christopher Rivers. Face Value: Physiognomical Thought and the Legible Body in Marivaux, Lavater, Balzac, Gautier, and Zola. The University of Wisconsin Press, 1994. xii + 275 pp.

Brian T. Fitch. The Fall: A Matter of Guilt. (Twayne's Masterwork Studies.) New York: Twayne Publishers, 1995. xii + 136 pp.     

From the stigmatized tattoo to the graffitied body: femininity in the tattoo renaissance

This article analyzes the spectacularly rising popularity of tattoos by showing that tattoos have become a spatial project in the largest sense: the way they participate in the creation of social space is different from that of tattoos before the Tattoo Renaissance. I explain this project as a shift from tattoos to body graffiti. In the past (predominantly male) tattoo-spheres could be located within the margins of society. Once an identity had been assumed through the adoption of a tattoo, the person could be assigned a particular geographical position within an urban sphere. Contemporary tattoos have this one-dimensional identifying function to a much lesser extent, which influences the way in which these tattoos create space. Within the new tattoo space, the skin does not wear the stigmatic mark, nor does it function as a screen of male desire, but it becomes a wall on which multiple desires are projected. In this sense, tattoos have become graffiti. I establish the particularity of the female tattoo as opposed to the masculine tattoo by focusing on an important element of the pro/contra discussion of female tattoos: the purity and ‘blankness’ of the female skin. Jean Baudrillard's concept of the blank female skin as a ‘void’ that men rush to fill with their own desires is central to this discussion. Finally, I show that the spatial function of narcissistically oriented female tattoos is at least partly established within the Suicide Girls interactive website.     

《中国帝王图志》——打造品读帝王文化的视觉盛宴

《中国帝王图志》以图说史、图文并茂,收录了中国历代帝王谱系和图片,内容全面。该书不仅为读者打造了帝王文化的视觉盛宴,而且还蕴含了一种图像学阐释和个人生活史解读的全新史学理念,也为读图时代的古史编纂和帝王文化出版的策划创意,开辟了值得重视的新径     

金子光晴的近代中国图像

终其一生,金子光晴都不隶属于日本主流意识形态的范畴。相对而言,他比较具有世界范畴的眼光,而较少狭隘的民族主义的立场。因为囿于日本本土的沉闷而希求一种解放的感觉,他对多元文化并存的五光十色的上海感到刺激和新鲜;因为并无对亚洲价值或东亚文化传统的强烈认同,他在对江南的历史旧迹表现出某种程度的欣赏时,也并未流露出特别的迷恋和陶醉;因为具有世界主义视野和人道主义精神,当他在京津一带看到日本人飞扬跋扈的征服者的姿态时,内心感到更多的是愤懑和痛楚。透过其所描述的中国图像,可管窥当时日本人中国观的一个侧面。     

澄怀昧象 悲悯人生——论京派文学艺术的“虚空”与“充实”

京派作家以清新恬淡的笔触抒写田园诗般的人生,传达出深沉的宇宙意识。本文试从中国古典美学角度入手,分析京派文学体现出的“虚空”与“充实”的境界。     

Cartography of the archaeological surveys taken from an Ikonos stereo-pair: a case study of the territory of Hierapolis in Phrygia (Turkey)

The paper analyses methods and issues connected with the elaboration of Ikonos stereo high-resolution satellite images to create a large-scale cartography for archaeological research. This methodology has been used on an area of the ancient territory of Hierapolis in Phrygia (Turkey), where archaeological surveys, developed by the Italian Archaeological Mission, are in progress. In particular, the study area is situated between the modern villages of Yeniköy and Küçükdereköy, for which neither cartographies suitable for ground surveys nor aerophotogrammetrical covers were available. In this area there are a lot of archaeological remains; in particular, a large Hellenistic and Roman settlement and its necropolises, and also an old Turkish settlement, now destroyed. An Ikonos image was ortho-rectified to obtain a space-map of the entire area. It was used to extract vectorial thematic elements (modern topography, hydrology, archaeological remains and traces, etc.) for the production of maps for archaeological research in the tolerances of a 1:10,000 scale.     

曹操形象的变化

曹操的形象,从唐朝以前的超世之杰演变为南宋以后的欺世奸雄,主要原因是封建正统观念的作祟。只有撇清正统观念,才能给曹操以客观的历史评价。中华人民共和国建立以后,通过为曹操翻案的大讨论,在历史学界确立了曹操的正面形象。不过,在文学界和艺术界,奸雄曹操的形象依旧有很大的影响,改动传统文艺作品好恶的难度是很大的。     

熟悉度对旅游目的地形象影响研究——以泰山为例

旅游目的地形象是吸引旅游者的关键因素之一,而目的地形象受到旅游者对目的地熟悉程度的影响。对泰山的研究表明：就总体形象和情感形象而言,旅游者对泰山的熟悉度越高,则形象越积极;就认知形象而言,6个形象因子中有4个因子也呈现出同样的情况。因此,建议目的地管理者从增加目的地信息传播的渠道、力争提高口碑推荐度和重游率等方面采取措施来提高旅游者对目的地的熟悉度,以此提升旅游目的地形象。     

基于文本挖掘的古镇旅游形象感知研究——以朱家角为例

摘要：本文采用文本挖掘方法分析了新浪博客中关于朱家角的2633篇博文,根据词频统计结果,将游客对朱家角的旅游感知形象划分为地理位置形象、旅游地类型形象和地方性形象3种,其中旅游地类型形象涵盖词条数最多、频次最高,这表明朱家角作为江南古镇的类型形象强于朱家角的地理位置形象和地方性形象。通过共现分析发现,江南古镇的名称常常多个同时出现在博文中,这也表明朱家角与其他江南古镇的竞争表现在类型形象上,而非表现为与某特定古镇的竞争。结合长尾理论,本文发现,游客对朱家角旅游形象的感知呈现出“长尾”特征,同时在形象曲线的尾部出现了“非利基”形象,开发小众旅游产品时需要对出现在长尾中的形象进行仔细甄别。本文提出,在江南古镇整体氛围塑造的基础上,融入老上海元素和开发创意文化旅游产品,可以作为朱家角进行旅游产品差异化开发的一种方式。     

Wildlife Visual Imagery: Do Pictures Used to Promote Destinations Online Match On‐site Species Visibility at Two Geographic Destinations?

Diverse photographic images (pictures) are used to promote wildlife tours on the Internet. But what pictures are used and are they likely to accurately reflect what visitors might see, and hence create realistic expectations for tourists? The relative importance of wildlife and the prevalence of iconic species were assessed for pictures on the Internet used by six English tour companies offering wildlife tours to very different destinations: Southern Africa and Australia. These were then compared with the likely visibility of wildlife at the destination. The content of 926 Southern African pictures representing 1316 different subjects, and 228 pictures representing 307 different subjects from Australia were classified into four themes (wildlife, landscapes/vegetation, activities, accommodation). Wildlife, particularly large mammals, was more frequently used for Southern African tours (43%) whereas pictures for Australian tours were often of landscapes (45%). Large, social mammals active during the day and hence highly visible (e.g. elephant, n= 64) were often used, while iconic, but cryptic, species such as koalas (n= 7), Tasmanian devil (n= 1), leopards (n= 12), and black rhinos (n= 2) were seldom used. Therefore, online pictures used for wildlife tours appear to merge well with what tourists are likely to see at the destination, but appear to diverge somewhat from established destination images for these two regions, particularly Australia.