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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| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | English |
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Chicago, Ill. London : University of Chicago Press,
2005
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| Schlagworte: | Art Visual communication Bild Theorie Ästhetik Ästhetische Wahrnehmung Visuelle Kommunikation Bildbetrachtung |
| Umfang: | XXI, 380 Seiten, 8 Blätter |
Inhaltsangabe:
- 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.