What Is an Image

Informationen zum Autor James Elkins is Associate Professor in the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Maja Naef is an art historian and art critic based in Basel, Switzerland. Klappentext "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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: James Ed Elkins
• Assisted by: James Elkins (Editor), Maja Naef (Editor), Naef Maja (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2011
• EAN: 9780271050645
• ISBN: 978-0-271-05064-5
• Series: The Stone Art Theory Institutes; The Stone Art Theory Institutes
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology; Theory of art, ART / History / General, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, ART / Criticism & Theory, History of art / art & design styles, Philosophy: aesthetics