What do pictures want?
The Lives and Loves of Images
W.J.T. Mitchell

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Author(s)

W.J.T. Mitchell

Publisher, year

Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2005

Scope

380 p., illustrated, 23 cm.

ISBN

9780226532486

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According to the author we need to reckon with images not just as inert objects but as animated beings with desires and drives of their own. That's why we behave as if pictures were alive, possessing the power to influence us, to persuade us, seduce us, or even lead us astray.

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Keywords

kritische esthetiek , diverse disciplines , kunstheorie , beeldcultuur

Location

Cabinet 10 - 4: Kunst ; teksten / Art ; texts

Remarks

Incl. notes, bibliographical references and Index.