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

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Author(s)

W.J.T. Mitchell

Publication

Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2005

Scope

380 Pages, 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

critical aesthetics , various disciplines , art theory , visual culture

Location

Cabinet 10 - 4: Kunst ; teksten

Remarks

Incl. notes, bibliographical references and Index.