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Is seeing a matter of nature? Does perspective show things as they really are? Can we read an image in the same way as a text? Reading Images draws together essays that attempt to answer these questions but in a variety of ways and from the different theoretical positions offered by psychoanalysis, semiotics, poststructuralism and postmodernism. The anthology opens up a dialogue between seeing and the seen, text and image, theory and practice. By discussing a range of visual material, from advertising and architecture to painting and photography, it crosses generic and disciplinary boundaries and suggests ways in which vision and visuality are related to questions of textuality, subjectivity, race and gender.>
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Contents
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Perspective; R. L. Gregory
Monster Metaphors: Notes on Michael Jackson's Thriller; K. Mercer
The Look; R. Coward
In Plato's Cave; S. Sontag
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (extract); R. Barthes
The Work of Art in an Age of Mechanical Reproduction (extract); W. Benjamin
Panopticism (extract); M. Foucault
Semiology and Visual Interpretation; N. Bryson
Imaging (extract); T. de Lauretis
Desperately Seeking Difference; J. Stacey
The Oppositional Gaze; B. Hooks
Of the Gaze as Objet Petit a' (extract); J. Lacan
Pornography, Nostalgia, Montage: A Triad of the Gaze (extract); S. Zizek
Motherhood According to Giovanni Bellini (extract); J. Kristeva
Why Peter Eisenman Writes Such Good Books; J. Derrida
'Las Meninas'; M. Foucault
Aesthetic Illusion and Virtual Reality; J. Baudrillard
Summaries and Notes
Glossary
Suggestions for Further Reading
Index.
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Julia Thomas
Zusammenfassung
By discussing a range of visual material, from advertising and architecture to painting and photography, it crosses generic and disciplinary boundaries and suggests ways in which vision and visuality are related to questions of textuality, subjectivity, race and gender.
