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What Is an Image?

What Is an Image?

Elkins, James
Naef, Maja

Paperback

Series: Stone Art Theory Institutes, Book 2

PhilosophyArt Criticism & TheoryArt History

ISBN10: 0271050659
ISBN13: 9780271050652
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Published: Jan 11 2012
Pages: 296
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.62 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English

What 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.

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