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What do pictures want? :

0226532453 (cloth : alk. paper)

b533527

What do pictures want? :

[Book]

the lives and loves of images /

W.J.T. Mitchell

Chicago :

University of Chicago Press,

2005

xxi, 380 p., 16 p. of plates :

ill. (some col.) ;

24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

Images. Vital signs : cloning terror -- What do pictures want? -- Drawing desire -- The surplus value of images -- Objects. Founding objects -- Offending images -- Empire and objecthood -- Romanticism and the life of things -- Totemism, fetishism, idolatry -- 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.

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"Why do we have such powerful responses toward the images and pictures we see in everyday life? Why do we behave as if pictures were alive, possessing the power to influence us, to demand things from us, to persuade us, seduce us, or even lead us astray?" "According to W.J.T. Mitchell, we need to reckon with images not just as inert objects that convey meaning but as animated beings with desires, needs, appetites, demands, and drives of their won. What Do Pictures Want? explores this idea and highlights Mitchell's innovative and profoundly influential thinking on picture theory and the lives and loves of images. Ranging across the visual arts, literature, and mass media, Mitchell applies analyses to Byzantine icons and cyberpunk films, racial stereotypes and public monuments, ancient idols and modern clones, offensive images and found objects, American photography and aboriginal painting."--Jacket.

Art

Visual communication

Mitchell, W. J. T., (William John Thomas),1942-

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