What Do Pictures Want?
In this book W. J. T. Mitchell explores why do we have such extraordinarily powerful responses toward the images and pictures we see in everyday life. Why do we behave as if pictures were alive, possessing the power to influence us, to demand things from us, to persuade us, seduce us, or even lead us astray? According to Mitchell, we need to reckon with images not just as inert objects that convey meaning but as animated beings with desires, needs, appetites, demands, and drives of their own. “What Do Pictures Want?” explores this idea and highlights Mitchell’s innovative and profoundly influential thinking on picture theory and the lives and loves of images. Ranging across the visual arts, literature, and mass media, Mitchell applies characteristically brilliant and wry analyses to Byzantine icons and cyberpunk films, racial stereotypes and public monuments, ancient idols and modern clones, offensive images and found objects, American photography and aboriginal painting. Opening new vistas in iconology and the emergent field of visual culture, he also considers the importance of Dolly the Sheep‑who, as a clone, fulfills the ancient dream of creating a living image‑and the destruction of the World Trade Center on 9/11, which, among other things, signifies a new and virulent form of iconoclasm.
Данные книги
Живопись, Искусствознание и арт-критика, Массовая культура, Философия, Фотография
Чикаго, Иллинойс
2005
408 страниц
9780226532486
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