Image Acts : A Systematic Approach to Visual Agency / Horst Bredekamp.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bredekamp, Horst, 1947- author.

Contributor:

Walter de Gruyter & Co.

Series:

Image word action ; 2.

Image word action = Imago sermo action = Bild Wort Aktion ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Image (Philosophy).

Art--Philosophy.

Art.

Genre:

Dictionaries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XIII, 361 pages).

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2021]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

text file PDF

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Preface to the Second English Edition

Preface to the English Edition

Introduction: The Problematic Centrality of the Image

1. Increasing Reflection of the Image

2. Leonardo's Invitation to Captivity

3. The Energeia of the Image

I. Origins and Concepts

1. Defining the Image

2. Plato, Heidegger, Lacan

3. Speech Act and Image Act

II. Inherent Theory

1. Early Statements in the First Person Singular

2. The Signature as Witness to the Self

3. Works of Art that Speak

III. Schematic Image Acts: Animation of the Image

1. Living Images

2. The Vitality of Mechanised Movement

3. Liminal Bodies: From Beauty to Biofact

IV. Substitutive Image Acts: The Exchange of Body and Image

1. The Media of Substitution

2. Forms of Substitution in a Social Context

3. Dominion, Insurrection, War

V. Intrinsic Image Acts: Image as Form

1. The Image as Beholder

2. The Dynamics of Formal Self-Transgression

3. The Irresistibility of Form

VI. Conclusion: The Nature of the Image Act

1. Evolution and the Image Act

2. The Play of Images in Nature

3. Image-active Enlightenment

Postscript: The Eye in Flight

Acknowledgements

Bibliography

Index

Picture Credits

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Berlin Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Apr 2021).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Image Acts :.

ISBN:

9783110725827

3110725827

Publisher Number:

40030749245

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.