What is an image?

What is an image?

by Elkins, James Naef, Maja

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"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.

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  • Full title :What is an image? / edited by James Elkins and Maja Naef.

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"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.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2011.

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  • Description:x, 286 pages ; : 18 cm.

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780271050645, 0271050640
  • oclc:on1049532902
  • LC Classification:BH301.I52
  • Dewey Decimal:701

Subjects

Aesthetics Art -- Philosophie Art -- Philosophy Image (Philosophie) Image (Philosophy)

Writers

Elkins, James Naef, Maja

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