What Images Do - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 8771248552 ISBN 13: 9788771248555

Verlag: Aarhus University Press, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

When images look like something they do so because they are different from what they resemble. This difference is not sufficiently captured by the traditional theories of representation and mimesis, and yet it is the condition for any such theory. Various contemporary image theorists have pointed out that Plato already understood that images are not what they look like. Images have their own existence which cannot be identified with a concept, but should be examined in terms of actions. This book comprises fifteen articles that investigate what images do, particularly in relation to the disciplines of architecture, design and visual arts. It claims that it is the differentiating power of images-their actions-which constitutes their capacity to look like something they are not, as well as create something that does not yet exist. What Images Do addresses the crucial role that images might play in producing and investigating what we have not yet seen or understood in and of reality.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Aarhus University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 8771248552
• ISBN 13: 9788771248555
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 327
• Herausgeber: Backlund Jan, Oxvig Henrik, Renner Michael, Soberg Martin
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: preigu GmbH & Co. KG; mail@preigu.de; ; Lengericher Landstr. 19; Osnabrück; Niedersachsen; 49078; Deutschland