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Author:

Mitchell, W. J. Thomas, 1942-

Title:

What do pictures want? : the lives and loves of images / W.J.T. Mitchell.

Publisher:

University of Chicago Press,

Copyright Date:

c2005

Description:

xxi, 380 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Art.
Visual communication.
Beeldcultuur.
Beeldcommunicatie.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Images. Vital signs : cloning terror -- What do pictures want? -- Drawing desire -- The surplus value of images -- Objects. Founding objects -- Offending images -- Empire and objecthood -- Romanticism and the life of things -- Totemism, fetishism, idolatry -- Media. Addressing media -- Abstraction and intimacy -- What sculpture wants : placing Antony Gormley -- The ends of American photography : Robert Frank as national medium -- Living color : race, stereotype, and animation in Spike Lee's Bamboozled -- The work of art in the age of biocybernetic reproduction -- Showing seeing : a critique of visual culture.

ISBN:

9780226532455 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226532453 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)54988888
(OCoLC)60667246

LCCN:

2004008501

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)