What is an image?
By: edited by James Elkins and Maja Naef
Series: Stone Art Theory Institutes
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: University Park, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780271050645
Subjects: Image (Philosophy); Philosophy; Art; Aesthetics
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.