Part One: Historical and Philosophical Precedents
Genesis to Locke
Man Created in God¿s Image
Graven Images - Genesis 2: 26 and 27
Abraham and the Idol Shop of his Father Terah - Exodus 20: 4-6
The Simile of the Cave - Midrash Rabbah
Art and Illusion - Plato
The Origins of Imitation - Plato
Thinking with Images - Aristotle
Iconodules and Iconoclasts in Byzantium - Aristotle
John of Damascus
Horos at Nicaea, 787 A.D.
Horos at Niera, 754 A.D.
Image and Idolatry
Evil Demon - Thomas Hobbes
Images and the Brain - René Descartes
Of Ideas - René Descartes
Kant to Freud - John Locke
Representation and Imagination
Space and Time - Immanuel Kant
Camera Obscura - Gotthold Lessing
The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret Thereof - Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
How the Real World at Last Became a Myth - Karl Marx
On Truth and Lies in a Non-Moral Sense - Friedrich Nietzsche
Images, Bodies and Consciousness - Friedrich Nietzsche
The Dream-Work - Henri Bergson
Part Two: Theories of Images - Sigmund Freud
Ideology Critique
Television: Multilayered Structure
Society of the Spectacle - Theodor Adorno
The Precession of Simulacra - Guy Debord
Image as Commodity - Jean Baudrillard
¿Race¿ and Nation - Fredric Jameson
Never Just Pictures - Paul Gilroy
Art History - Susan Bordo
Studies in Iconology
Invention and Discovery - Erwin Panofsky
Interpretation without Representation, or, The Viewing of Las Meninas - Ernst Gombrich
Towards a Visual Critical Theory - Svetlana Alpers
Semiotics - Susan Buck-Morss
Nature of the Linguistic Sign
The Sign: Icon, Index, and Symbol - Ferdinand de Saussure
The Third Meaning - Charles Sanders Peirce
From Sub- to Suprasemiotic: The Sign as Event - Roland Barthes
The Semiotic Landscape - Mieke Bal
Phenomenology - Gunter Kress and Theo van Leeuwen
Thing and Work
Eye and Mind - Martin Heidegger
Description - Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Imagination - Jean-Paul Sartre
Scientific Visualism - Mikel Dufrenne
Psychoanalysis - Don Ihde
The Gaze / Anamorphosis
The All-Perceiving Subject - Jacques Lacan
Woman as Image (Man as Bearer of the Look) - Christian Metz
Cindy Sherman¿s Untitled Film Stills - Laura Mulvey
Two Kinds of Attention - Joan Copjec
Part Three: Image Culture - Anton Ehrenzweig
Images and Words
The Roots of Poetry
Icon and Image - Ernest Fenollosa
This is Not a Pipe - Paul Ricoeur
The Despotic Eye and its Shadow: Media Image in the Age of Literacy - Michel Foucault
Images, Audiences, and Readings - Robert Romanyshyn
Image as Thought - Kevin DeLuca
Pictures and Facts
Body Images - Ludwig Wittgenstein
Involuntary Memory - Antonio Damasio
The Philosophical Imaginary - Marcel Proust
Thought and Cinema: The Time-Image - Michèle Le Doeuff
The Dialectical Image - Gilles Deleuze
Ways of Remembering - Walter Benjamin
Fabrication - John Berger
Taking a Line for a Walk
On Montage and the Filmic Fourth Dimension - Paul Klee
Electronic Tools - Sergei Eisenstein
Camera Lucida - William J. Mitchell
Images Scatter into Data, Data Gather into Images - David Hockney
Visual Culture - Peter Galison
The Medium is the Message
The Image of the City - Marshal McLuhan
The Image-World - Kevin Lynch
The Philosopher as Andy Warhol - Susan Sontag
Symbol, Idol and Murti: Hindu God-images and the Politics of Mediation - Arthur Danto
The United Colors of Diversity - Gregory Price Grieve
The Unbearable Lightness Of Sight - Celia Lury
Vision and Visuality - Meiling Cheng
Modernising Vision
The Im/Pulse to See - Jonathan Crary
Lighting for Whiteness - Rosalind Krauss
Cultural Relativism and the Visual Turn - Richard Dyer
The Modularity of Vision - Martin Jay
Image Studies - Semir Zeki
The Family of Images
The Domain of Images - W.J.T. Mitchell
A Constructivist Manifesto - James Elkins
Images, Not Signs - Barbara Stafford
What is Iconoclash? Or is there a World Beyond the Image Wars? - Régis Debray