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Images : a reader / edited by Sunil Manghani, Arthur Piper and Jon Simons.

Contributor(s): Publisher: London ; Thousand Oaks : SAGE, 2006Description: xx, 331 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781412900454
  • 141290045X
  • 9781412900447
  • 1412900441
Subject(s):
Contents:
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.
Summary: This text provides a map of the differences and similarities between the various disciplinary approaches to images, breaking the grounds for a new interdisciplinary study of the images, in the arts, humanities and beyond.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

This text provides a map of the differences and similarities between the various disciplinary approaches to images, breaking the grounds for a new interdisciplinary study of the images, in the arts, humanities and beyond.