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Author Lechte, John

Title Genealogy and Ontology of the Western Image and its Digital Future
Published Hoboken : Taylor & amp; Francis, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (217 pages)
Series Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies
Routledge advances in art and visual studies.
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
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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Subject Art -- Philosophy.
Image (Philosophy)
Art -- Philosophy
Image (Philosophy)
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780203121849
0203121848