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According to W. J. T. Mitchell, we need to reckon with images not just as inert objects that convey meaning but as animated beings with desires, needs, appetites, demands, and drives of their own. What Do Pictures Want? explores this idea and highlights Mitchell's innovative and profoundly influential thinking on picture theory and the lives and loves of images. Ranging across the visual arts, literature, and mass media, Mitchell applies characteristically brilliant and wry analyses to Byzantine icons and cyberpunk films, racial stereotypes and public monuments, ancient idols and modern clones, offensive images and found objects, American photography and aboriginal painting. Opening new vistas in iconology and the emergent field of visual culture, he also considers the importance of Dolly the Sheep--who, as a clone, fulfills the ancient dream of creating a living image--and the destruction of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, which, among other things, signifies a new and virulent form of iconoclasm.
What Do Pictures Want? offers an immensely rich and suggestive account of the interplay between the visible and the readable. A work by one of our leading theorists of visual representation, it will be a touchstone for art historians, literary critics, anthropologists, and philosophers alike.
According to W. J. T. Mitchell, we need to reckon with images not just as inert objects that convey meaning but as animated beings with desires, needs, appetites, demands, and drives of their own. What Do Pictures Want? explores this idea and highlights Mitchell's innovative and profoundly influential thinking on picture theory and the lives and loves of images. Ranging across the visual arts, literature, and mass media, Mitchell applies characteristically brilliant and wry analyses to Byzantine icons and cyberpunk films, racial stereotypes and public monuments, ancient idols and modern clones, offensive images and found objects, American photography and aboriginal painting. Opening new vistas in iconology and the emergent field of visual culture, he also considers the importance of Dolly the Sheep--who, as a clone, fulfills the ancient dream of creating a living image--and the destruction of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, which, among other things, signifies a new and virulent form of iconoclasm.
What Do Pictures Want? offers an immensely rich and suggestive account of the interplay between the visible and the readable. A work by one of our leading theorists of visual representation, it will be a touchstone for art historians, literary critics, anthropologists, and philosophers alike.
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2006 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Kunst |
| Rubrik: | Kunst & Musik |
| Thema: | Allgemeine Kunst |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Seiten: | 408 |
| Inhalt: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| ISBN-13: | 9780226532486 |
| ISBN-10: | 0226532488 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Mitchell, W. J. T. |
| Hersteller: | The University of Chicago Press |
| Maße: | 229 x 156 x 21 mm |
| Von/Mit: | W. J. T. Mitchell |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 15.11.2006 |
| Gewicht: | 0,578 kg |
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2006 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Kunst |
| Rubrik: | Kunst & Musik |
| Thema: | Allgemeine Kunst |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Seiten: | 408 |
| Inhalt: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| ISBN-13: | 9780226532486 |
| ISBN-10: | 0226532488 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Mitchell, W. J. T. |
| Hersteller: | The University of Chicago Press |
| Maße: | 229 x 156 x 21 mm |
| Von/Mit: | W. J. T. Mitchell |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 15.11.2006 |
| Gewicht: | 0,578 kg |
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