Images at work : the material culture of enchantment / David Morgan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morgan, David, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Body image.

Digital images.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (some color)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018.

Summary:

'Images at Work' explores how images operate, what their effects on viewers are, and how enchantment can be understood as visual dynamics that we need to take seriously. Enchantment is more than religion and is not identical with magic. And its effects are not fully discernible apart from its material culture because enchantment is about things and our engagement with them.

Contents:

Introduction

1. To believe and make-believe

2. How images work

3. Enchantment and disenchantment

4. The ecology of images

5. Icon and aura

6. Chance and the work of enchantment

Conclusion.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 22, 2018).

ISBN:

0-19-027213-9

0-19-086220-3

0-19-027212-0