The Survival of Images
Subtitle: Art Historians, Psychoanalysts, and the Ancients (Kritik (Detroit, Mich.).)
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: November 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9780814328606
Subjects: Cultural studies; History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -; Psychoanalysis & psychoanalytical theory; Psychoanalysis; Psychology Of Art; Art; Sociology; Aesthetics; Semiotics & Theory; Sociology - Social Theory; History - General; 20th century; Art, Modern; History; Psychoanalysis and culture; Psychology
Description: "The twentieth century seemed destined, according to one art historian, to become not an age of reason, but a visual age in which images would afford more enlightenment and intellectual pleasure than the written or spoken word. Writing in 1948, Fritz Saxl was referring not only to the rise of cinematic art, but also to a major transformation in the way his predecessors had begun to view culture in general - as a process of image-making.

In The Survival of Images, Louis Rose offers an engaging exploration of these changes as they occurred in three key areas of inquiry at the turn of the century: art history, classics, and the emerging field of psychoanalysis." "Discussing each one's endeavors within a historically rich context, The Survival of Images offers insights into the concepts and methods that would animate the study of culture for much of the twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET.