What is an image? /
edited by James Elkins and Maja Naef.
Description
- Language(s)
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English
- Published
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University Park, Penn. : The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2011.
- Summary
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Summary: "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."
- Physical Description
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x, 286 pages :
illustrations ;
26 cm.
- ISBN
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9780271050652
0271050659
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