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What is an image?
- Title
- What is an image? / edited by James Elkins and Maja Naef.
- Publication
- University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2011.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | BH301.I52 W43 2011 | Off-site |
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- Description
- x, 286 pages : illustrations; 27 cm
- Summary
- "Brings together historians, philosophers, critics, postcolonial theorists, and curators to ask how images, pictures, and paintings are conceptualized. Issues discussed include concepts such as "image" and "picture" in and outside the West; semiotics; whether images are products of discourse; religious meanings; and the ethics of viewing"--Provided by publisher.
- Series Statement
- The Stone Art Theory Institutes ; v. 2
- Uniform Title
- Stone art theory institutes (Series) ; v. 2.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Aufsatzsammlung.
- Gespräch.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 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 -- Ciaran Benson -- Christoph Luthy -- Sebastian Egenhofer -- Irmgard Emmelhainz -- Ladislav Kesner -- John Michael Krois -- Karin Leonhard -- Francesco Peri -- Frederik Stjernfelt -- Rainer Totzke -- Michael Zimmermann -- Sunil Manghani -- Klaus Sachs-Hombach -- Jose Luis Brea.
- ISBN
- 9780271050645
- 0271050640
- 9780271050652
- 0271050659
- LCCN
- 2011020777
- OCLC
- ocn727511721
- 727511721
- SCSB-9726140
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library