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OverviewWhat Is an Image? raises the stakes for writing in art history, visual studies, art theory, and art criticism by questioning one of the most fundamental terms of all, the image or picture. This innovative collection gathers some of the most influential historians and theorists working on images to discuss what the visual has come to mean. Topics include concepts such as image and picture in the West and outside it; the reception and rejection of semiotics; the question of what is outside the image; the question of whether images have a distinct nature or are products of discourse, like language; the relationship between images and religious meanings; and the study of non-art images in medicine, science, and technology. Among the major writers represented in this book are Gottfried Boehm, Michael Ann Holly, Jacqueline Lichtenstein, W. J. T. Mitchell, Marie-Jose Mondzain, Keith Moxey, Parul Dave Mukherji, Wolfram Pichler, Alex Potts, and Adrian Rifkin. Full Product DetailsAuthor: James Elkins , Maja NaefPublisher: Pennsylvania State University Press Imprint: Pennsylvania State University Press Volume: 2 Dimensions: Width: 17.80cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 25.40cm Weight: 0.544kg ISBN: 9780271050652ISBN 10: 0271050659 Pages: 296 Publication Date: 15 November 2012 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsContents Series Preface Introduction James Elkins The Seminars 1 How Many Theories of Images Are There? 2 What Is Outside Images 3 Accounts of Images, and Accounts That Begin from Images 4 Ontology 5 Non-Western Accounts 6 Public and Private 7 Religion, Ritual, the Sacred 8 Painting and Images 9 Image, Notation, Graph . . . Assessments Preface James Elkins Frederick M. Asher Michael Ann Holly Adrian Rifkin Frank Vigneron Keith Moxey Harry Cooper Parul Dave Mukherji Thomas Baumeister Vivian Sobchack Alex Potts Kavita Singh Paul Messaris Emmanuel Alloa Aud Sissel Hoel Ellen Chow Xaq Pitkow Crispin Sartwell Klaus Speidel Antonia Pocock Paul Willemarck Ruth Sonderegger Thomas Macho and Jasmin Mersmann Ciarán Benson Christoph Lüthy Sebastian Egenhofer Irmgard Emmelhainz Ladislav Kesner John Michael Krois Karin Leonhard Francesco Peri Frederik Stjernfelt Rainer Totzke Michael Zimmermann Sunil Manghani Klaus Sachs-Hombach José Luis Brea Afterword Wolfram Pichler Notes on the Contributors IndexReviewsWhat Is an Image? offers a richly informative, wide-ranging, and open-ended ensemble of ideas and viewpoints that significantly advances the scholarly conversation. One of the great virtues of the volume is that it breaks with the standardized format of much academic writing to allow the coexistence of a plurality of voices and opinions. The reader is allowed to 'listen in' on a discussion that takes place at the cutting edge of current research and thereby gains a clear overview of the issues at stake in reconceptualizing the image. --Jason Gaiger, The University of Oxford What Is an Image? is bursting with incisive debate and suggestive commentary about the nature, diversity, and peculiarity of images, ranging from brief remarks to focused critiques to a sustained analytic afterword. In navigating the thicket of past and contemporary image theory, it juxtaposes an astonishing range of views--sometimes compatible, sometimes contradictory, always distinctive. But it never loses sight of core concerns, and it productively reopens and reorients some of the most challenging questions about our reception and representation of the visible world. --Whitney Davis, University of California at Berkeley <em>What Is an Image? </em>is bursting with incisive debate and suggestive commentary about the nature, diversity, and peculiarity of images, ranging from brief remarks to focused critiques to a sustained analytic afterword. In navigating the thicket of past and contemporary image theory, it juxtaposes an astonishing range of views sometimes compatible, sometimes contradictory, always distinctive. But it never loses sight of core concerns, and it productively reopens and reorients some of the most challenging questions about our reception and representation of the visible world. </p> Whitney Davis, University of California at Berkeley</p> What Is an Image? offers a richly informative, wide-ranging, and open-ended ensemble of ideas and viewpoints that significantly advances the scholarly conversation. One of the great virtues of the volume is that it breaks with the standardized format of much academic writing to allow the coexistence of a plurality of voices and opinions. The reader is allowed to listen in on a discussion that takes place at the cutting edge of current research and thereby gains a clear overview of the issues at stake in reconceptualizing the image. Jason Gaiger, The University of Oxford Author InformationJames Elkins is Associate Professor in the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Maja Naef is an art historian and art critic based in Basel, Switzerland. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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