What do pictures want? : the lives and loves of images

Images. Vital signs : cloning terror -- What do pictures want? -- Drawing desire -- The surplus value of images -- Objects. Founding objects -- Offending images -- Empire and objecthood -- Romanticism and the life of things -- Totemism, fetishism, idolatry -- Media. Addressing media -- Abstraction a...

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1. Verfasser: Mitchell, W. J. T. 1942- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chicago, Ill. London : University of Chicago Press, 2005
Schlagworte:Art Visual communication Bild Theorie Ästhetik Ästhetische Wahrnehmung Visuelle Kommunikation Bildbetrachtung
Umfang:XXI, 380 Seiten, 8 Blätter
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Zusammenfassung:Images. Vital signs : cloning terror -- What do pictures want? -- Drawing desire -- The surplus value of images -- Objects. Founding objects -- Offending images -- Empire and objecthood -- Romanticism and the life of things -- Totemism, fetishism, idolatry -- Media. Addressing media -- Abstraction and intimacy -- What sculpture wants : placing Antony Gormley -- The ends of American photography : Robert Frank as national medium -- Living color : race, stereotype, and animation in Spike Lee's Bamboozled -- The work of art in the age of biocybernetic reproduction -- Showing seeing : a critique of visual culture
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:XXI, 380 Seiten, 8 Blätter Illustrationen 24 cm
ISBN:9780226532455
0226532453
0226532488
9780226532486