Theory of the image / Thomas Nail.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nail, Thomas, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Images, Photographic--Psychological aspects.

Images, Photographic.

Digital images--Social aspects.

Digital images.

Motion--Philosophy.

Motion.

Social aspects.

Psychological aspects.

Physical Description:

xi, 416 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]

Summary:

We live in an age of the mobile image. The world today is absolutely saturated with analog and digital images of all kinds circulating around the world at an incredible rate. The movement of the image has never been more extraordinary than it is today. This recent kinetic revolution of the image has hitherto unconsidered consequences not only for the way we think about contemporary art and aesthetics but also for art history as well.0Responding to this historical moment, Theory of the Image offers a fresh new aesthetics and history of art from the perspective of this epoch-defining mobility. The image has been understood in many ways, but rarely, if ever, has it been understood to be, primarily and above all, in motion. This original approach is what defines Theory of the Image and what allows it to offer the first kinetic history of the Western art tradition. In this book, Thomas Nail further develops his larger philosophy of movement into a comprehensive "kinesthetics" of the moving image from prehistory to the present. The book concludes with a vivid analysis of the contemporary digital image and its hybridity, ultimately outlining new territory for research and exploration across aesthetics, art history, cultural theory, and media studies.

Contents:

Part I Kinesthetics

1 The Flow of Matter p. 19

Flow p. 19

Bifurcation p. 33

Confluence p. 34

2 The Fold of Affect p. 43

Affect p. 43

Sensation p. 49

Conjunction p. 62

3 The Field of Art p. 69

The Field of Circulation p. 70

The Experience of the Work of Art Knot Art p. 87

Part II History of the Image

A The Functional Image p. 99

4 Centripetal Function p. 101

Centripetal Motion p. 101

Entrainment p. 102

Kinetic Use-Value p. 104

5 The Prehistoric Image p. 107

The Body p. 107

The Hearth p. 111

The Cave p. 114

The Vessel p. 118

The Wind Instrument p. 125

The House p. 127

B The Formal Image p. 131

6 Centrifugal Form p. 133

Centrifugal Motion p. 133

Concrete Form p. 134

Abstract Form p. 137

Model and Mold p. 140

7 The Ancient Image, I p. 143

Written Verse p. 144

Tragedy p. 149

Metallurgy p. 158

8 The Ancient Image, II p. 165

The City p. 165

The Chordophone p. 175

Pharmakon p. 179

C The Relational Image p. 185

9 Tensional Relation p. 187

Tensional Motion p. 188

Illumination p. 190

Contrast p. 194

10 The Medieval Image, I p. 196

Glass Work p. 197

The Church p. 207

Distillation p. 218

11 The Medieval Image, II p. 224

The Keyboard p. 239

Epistolography p. 245

D The Differential Image p. 253

12 Elastic Difference p. 255

Difference p. 256

Elastic Motion p. 258

Seriality p. 260

13 The Modern Image, I p. 262

Steel p. 263

The Photographic Image p. 273

The Novel p. 283

14 The Modern Image, II p. 293

Meter p. 293

Action p. 306

Molecule p. 316

Part III The Contemporary Image

15 The Digital Image p. 323

The Electromagnetic Field p. 324

The Hybrid Image p. 332

16 The Generative Image p. 337

Randomness and Pedesis p. 338

The Ordered Generative Image p. 339

The Disordered Generative Image p. 342

Contemporary Generative Art p. 351.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Nail, Thomas, author. Theory of the image

ISBN:

9780190924034

0190924039

9780190050085

019005008X

OCLC:

1055569237