What Is an Image? (The Stone Art Theory Institutes) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0271050659 ISBN 13: 9780271050652

Publisher: Penn State University Press, 2012

Synopsis

What Is an Image? raises the stakes for writing in art history, visual studies, art theory, and art criticism by questioning one of the most fundamental terms of all, the image or picture. This innovative collection gathers some of the most influential historians and theorists working on images to discuss what the visual has come to mean. Topics include concepts such as image and picture in the West and outside it; the reception and rejection of semiotics; the question of what is outside the image; the question of whether images have a distinct nature or are products of discourse, like language; the relationship between images and religious meanings; and the study of non-art images in medicine, science, and technology.

Among the major writers represented in this book are Gottfried Boehm, Michael Ann Holly, Jacqueline Lichtenstein, W. J. T. Mitchell, Marie-José Mondzain, Keith Moxey, Parul Dave Mukherji, Wolfram Pichler, Alex Potts, and Adrian Rifkin.

About this title

About the Authors

James Elkins is Associate Professor in the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Maja Naef is an art historian and art critic based in Basel, Switzerland.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0271050659
• ISBN 13: 9780271050652
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 296
• Editor: Elkins James, Naef Maja