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What do pictures want? : the lives and loves of images /

By: Mitchell, W. J. T. (William John Thomas), 1942-.
Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2005Description: xxi, 380 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0226532453 (cloth : alk. paper); 9780226532455:; 9780226532455 (cloth : alk. paper); 0226532488 (pbk.); 9780226532486 (pbk.).Subject(s): Art | Visual communicationDDC classification: 701
Contents:
List of ilIustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Part one : images. Vital signs : cloning terror. What do pictures want? Drawing desire. The surplus value of images -- Part two : objects. Founding objects. Offending images. Empire and objecthood. Romanticism and the life of things. Totemism, fetishism, idolatry -- Part three : media. Addressing media. Abstraction and intimacy. What sculpture wants : placing Antony Gormley. The ends of American photography : Robert Frank as national medium. Living color : race, stereotype, and animation in Spike Lee's 'Bamboozled'. The work of art in the age of biocybernetic reproduction. Showing seeing : a critique of visual culture -- Index.
Summary: Mitchell argues that we need to reckon with images not merely as inert objects that convey meaning but as animated beings with desires, needs, appetites, deamnds, & drives of their own. He explores this idea & highlights his innovative & profoundly influential thinking on picture theory & the lives & loves of images.
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Standard Loan Standard Loan ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection 701 MIT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0092287
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of ilIustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Part one : images. Vital signs : cloning terror. What do pictures want? Drawing desire. The surplus value of images -- Part two : objects. Founding objects. Offending images. Empire and objecthood. Romanticism and the life of things. Totemism, fetishism, idolatry -- Part three : media. Addressing media. Abstraction and intimacy. What sculpture wants : placing Antony Gormley. The ends of American photography : Robert Frank as national medium. Living color : race, stereotype, and animation in Spike Lee's 'Bamboozled'. The work of art in the age of biocybernetic reproduction. Showing seeing : a critique of visual culture -- Index.

Mitchell argues that we need to reckon with images not merely as inert objects that convey meaning but as animated beings with desires, needs, appetites, deamnds, & drives of their own. He explores this idea & highlights his innovative & profoundly influential thinking on picture theory & the lives & loves of images.

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