When we try to make sense of pictures, what do we gain when we use a particular method - and what might we be missing or even losing? Empirical experimentation on three types of mythological imagery - a Classical Greek pot, a frieze from Hellenistic Pergamon and a second-century…
When we try to make sense of pictures, what do we gain when we use a particular method - and what might we be missing or even losing? Empirical experimentation on three types of mythological imagery - a Classical Greek pot, a frieze from Hellenistic Pergamon and a second-century…
"When we try to make sense of pictures, what do we gain when we use a particular method--and what might we be missing or even losing? Empirical experimentation on three types of mythological imagery--a Classical Greek pot, a frieze from Hellenistic Pergamon and a second-century …
"When we try to make sense of pictures, what do we gain when we use a particular method--and what might we be missing or even losing? Empirical experimentation on three types of mythological imagery--a Classical Greek pot, a frieze from Hellenistic Pergamon and a second-century …
"When we try to make sense of pictures, what do we gain when we use a particular method--and what might we be missing or even losing? Empirical experimentation on three types of mythological imagery--a Classical Greek pot, a frieze from Hellenistic Pergamon and a second-century …
"Une réflexion sur le thème de l'art et de la politique. L'auteur s'interroge sur les effets, dans le champ politique, de ce qu'il nomme le régime esthétique de l'art, c'est-à-dire la perte de la destination des oeuvres et l'égalité des sujets représentés."--[Memento].
Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface: Figures and Grounds -- Acknowledgments -- Part One: Figures -- 1. Art History on the Edge: Iconology, Media, and Visual Culture -- 2. Four Fundamental Concepts of Image Science -- 3. Image Science -- 4. Image X Text -- 5. Realism and…
Almost thirty years ago, W.J.T. Mitchell's 'Iconology' helped launch the interdisciplinary study of visual media, now a central feature of the humanities. Mitchell's now-classic work introduced such ideas as the pictorial turn, the image/picture distinction, the metapicture, and…