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Subject(s)

• Image (Philosophy) [Browse]
• Aesthetics [Browse]
• Art—Philosophy [Browse]

Related name

• Elkins, James, 1955- [Browse]
• Naef, Maja, 1973- [Browse]

Series

• Stone art theory institutes (Series) ; v. 2. [More in this series]
• The Stone Art Theory Institutes ; v. 2

Summary note

"Brings together historians, philosophers, critics, postcolonial theorists, and curators to ask how images, pictures, and paintings are conceptualized. Issues discussed include concepts such as "image" and "picture" in and outside the West; semiotics; whether images are products of discourse; religious meanings; and the ethics of viewing"--Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• The Seminars
• 1. How Many Theories of Images Are There?
• 2. What Is Outside Images
• 3. Accounts of Images, and Accounts That Begin from Images
• 4. Ontology
• 5. Non-Western Accounts
• 6. Public and Private
• 7. Religion, Ritual, the Sacred
• 8. Painting and Images
• 9. Image, Notation, Graph ...
• Assessments
• Preface
• James Elkins
• Frederick M. Asher
• Michael Ann Holly
• Adrian Rifkin
• Frank Vigneron
• Keith Moxey
• Harry Cooper
• Parul Dave Mukherji
• Thomas Baumeister
• Vivian Sobchack
• Alex Potts
• Kavita Singh
• Paul Messaris
• Emmanuel Alloa
• Aud Sissel Hoel
• Ellen Chow
• Xaq Pitkow
• Crispin Sartwell
• Klaus Speidel
• Antonia Pocock
• Paul Willemarck
• Ruth Sonderegger
• Thomas Macho and Jasmin Mersmann
• Ciaran Benson
• Christoph Luthy
• Sebastian Egenhofer
• Irmgard Emmelhainz
• Ladislav Kesner
• John Michael Krois
• Karin Leonhard
• Francesco Peri
• Frederik Stjernfelt
• Rainer Totzke
• Michael Zimmermann
• Sunil Manghani
• Klaus Sachs-Hombach
• Jose Luis Brea.

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ISBN

• 9780271050645 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
• 0271050640 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
• 9780271050652
• 0271050659

LCCN

2011020777

OCLC

727511721

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