What is an image? / edited by James Elkins and Maja Naef.
"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 prod...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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University Park, Pa. :
Pennsylvania State University Press,
2011.
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| Series: | Stone art theory institutes (Series) ;
v. 2. |
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| Summary: | "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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| Physical Description: | x, 286 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780271050645 (cloth : alk. paper) 0271050640 (cloth : alk. paper) |