Image Act
Subtitle: A Systematic Approach to Visual Agency
Publisher: de Gruyter GmbH, Walter
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9783110536300
Subjects: Act (philosophy)
Description: Image Act' focuses on the counterforce of the form of images. The book subdivides this sphere into three parts: imitation, substitution, and the pure effect of the form. All three parts are contemplated with examples from antiquity through to the present and the iconoclastic controversies of our times. From this reconstruction of the image act springs the element of a new philosophy of affordance.