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Theorizing images / edited by Zarko Paić and Kresimir Purgar.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Visual communication.
- Pictures--Philosophy.
- Pictures.
- Pictures--Social aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (298 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.
- Summary:
- This book uncovers an underlying dispute over the role images play in contemporary society and, consequently, over their values and purposes. Two decades after the concepts of the pictorial and the iconic turn changed our vernacular involvement with regard to images, it has become clear that it was not only a newly discovered social, political or sexual construction of the visual field that brought turbulence into disciplinary knowledge, but that images have their own "pictorial logic" with powers exceeding those that are purely iconic or visually discernible. Instead of underscoring previousl
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 20, 2016).
- ISBN:
- 1-4438-9293-9
- OCLC:
- 949670530
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