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1 online resource (217 pages) |
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Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies |
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Routledge advances in art and visual studies.
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Contents |
Cover; Genealogy and Ontology of the Western Image and its Digital Future; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction--'Genealogy', 'Ontology', 'Western Image' and the 'Digital'; Part I: Genealogy and Ontology (Paradigms); 1. The Image in Plato and the Greek World; PART 1; PART 2; PART 3; 2. The Byzantine Image; 3. The Renaissance Image; 4. Transparency and Opacity--The Image in Rousseau, Diderot, Hume and Kant; 5. The Industrial Image; Part II: The Image in Photography and Cinema and its Digital Future |
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6. Some Fallacies and Truths Concerning the Image in Old and New Media7. Barthes and Benjamin on the Photographic Image and Time; 8. The Image and Beauty in Relation to Visual Digital Art; 9. The Time-Image; Notes; References; Index |
Summary |
With the emerging dominance of digital technology, the time is ripe to reconsider the nature of the image. Some say that there is no longer a phenomenal image, only disembodied information (0-1) waiting to be configured. For photography, this implies that a faith in the principle of an "evidential force"--Of the impossibility of doubting that the subject was before the lens -- is no longer plausible. Technologically speaking, we have arrived at a point where the manipulation of the image is an ever-present possibility, when once it was difficult, if not impossible. What are the key |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Art -- Philosophy.
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Image (Philosophy)
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Art -- Philosophy
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Image (Philosophy)
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780203121849 |
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0203121848 |
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