Atrocitas fascinans
Subtitle: imagen, horror, deseo
By: José Luis Barrios
Contributors: Universidad Iberoamericana (Mexico City, Mexico)
Edition: 1. ed.
Publisher: Rastroblanco Ediciones; Universidad Iberoamericana; Conejoblanco
Published: 2010
Place of publication: México, D.F
Language: spa
Number of pages: 111
ISBN-13: 9786074170979
Subjects: Image (Philosophy); Visual perception; Semiotics and the arts
Other titles: Imagen, horror y deseo
Description: The contemporary status of images is seductive and at the same time frightening. The images of today have become a space of conflict between truth and the political and aesthetic condition that defines cinema and photography. Author Barrios, curator of contemporary art presents a series of articles and essays focused on the relationship between desire and horror in the contemporary image regime.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 109-111).
Table of contents: title: Paradojas y aporías : mirada, terror y representación --; title: Dispositivo : el coloso, lo visible y lo invisible --; title: Lindes : archivo, memoria y afecto --; title: El retrato y la muerte.