What Do Pictures Want?: The Lives and Loves of Images

Langue : anglais

Edité par University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2005

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xxi, 380 pages, 16 pages of plates, illustrations (some colour); 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. *** "Why do we have such extraordinarily powerful responses toward the images and pictures we see in everyday life? Why do we behave as if pictures were alive, possessing the power to influence us, to demand things from us, to persuade us, seduce us, or even lead us astray? 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 9/11, 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. / W. J. T. Mitchell is the Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature and in the Department of Art History at the University of Chicago. He is the author or editor of eight books published by the University of Chicago Press, including Picture Theory, Iconology, and Landscape and Power. He is also the editor of Critical Inquiry." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: Images. Vital signs: cloning terror; What do pictures want?; Drawing desire; The surplus value of images; Objects. Founding objects; Offending images; Empire and objecthood; Romanticism and the life of things; Totemism, fetishism, idolatry; Media. Addressing media; Abstraction and intimacy; What sculpture wants: placing Antony Gormley; The ends of American photography: Robert Frank as national medium; Living color: race, stereotype, and animation in Spike Lee's Bamboozled; The work of art in the age of biocybernetic reproduction; Showing seeing: a critique of visual culture. Size: 8vo.…

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Titre
What Do Pictures Want?: The Lives and Loves of Images
Auteur
Mitchell, W. J. T. (William John Thomas)
Éditeur
University of Chicago Press, Chicago
Année de publication
2005
État de l'article
Fine
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Paperback
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
0226532488
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9780226532486
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Aesthetics & Art Criticism, Photography::Criticism, USA::7. Contemporary, 2000-, XO::Standard

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