Unavailable
Unavailable
Unavailable
Ebook398 pages6 hours
Image Science: Iconology, Visual Culture, and Media Aesthetics
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
3.5/5
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this ebook
Almost thirty years ago, W. J. T. Mitchell’s Iconology helped launch the interdisciplinary study of visual media, now a central feature of the humanities. Along with his subsequent Picture Theory and What Do Pictures Want?, Mitchell’s now-classic work introduced such ideas as the pictorial turn, the image/picture distinction, the metapicture, and the biopicture. These key concepts imply an approach to images as true objects of investigation—an “image science.”
Continuing with this influential line of thought, Image Science gathers Mitchell’s most recent essays on media aesthetics, visual culture, and artistic symbolism. The chapters delve into such topics as the physics and biology of images, digital photography and realism, architecture and new media, and the occupation of space in contemporary popular uprisings. The book looks both backward at the emergence of iconology as a field and forward toward what might be possible if image science can indeed approach pictures the same way that empirical sciences approach natural phenomena.
Essential for those involved with any aspect of visual media, Image Science is a brilliant call for a method of studying images that overcomes the “two-culture split” between the natural and human sciences.
Continuing with this influential line of thought, Image Science gathers Mitchell’s most recent essays on media aesthetics, visual culture, and artistic symbolism. The chapters delve into such topics as the physics and biology of images, digital photography and realism, architecture and new media, and the occupation of space in contemporary popular uprisings. The book looks both backward at the emergence of iconology as a field and forward toward what might be possible if image science can indeed approach pictures the same way that empirical sciences approach natural phenomena.
Essential for those involved with any aspect of visual media, Image Science is a brilliant call for a method of studying images that overcomes the “two-culture split” between the natural and human sciences.
Unavailable
Read more from W. J. T. Mitchell
What Do Pictures Want?: The Lives and Loves of Images Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Iconology: Image, Text, Ideology Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mental Traveler: A Father, a Son, and a Journey through Schizophrenia Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOccupy: Three Inquiries in Disobedience Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCloning Terror: The War of Images, 9/11 to the Present Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Animal Rites: American Culture, the Discourse of Species, and Posthumanist Theory Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related to Image Science
Related ebooks
Writing about Visual Art Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Aisthesis: Scenes from the Aesthetic Regime of Art Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Iconoclasm Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsArtificial Darkness: An Obscure History of Modern Art and Media Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Critical Terms for Art History, Second Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Modern Art and the Remaking of Human Disposition Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWhat Do Artists Know? Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMute Speech Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsArtificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Cinematic Sublime: Negative Pleasures, Structuring Absences Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAnthropology, Art and Cultural Production Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Global Work of Art: World's Fairs, Biennials, and the Aesthetics of Experience Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDark Matter: Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise Culture Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Atlas, or the Anxious Gay Science Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Insistence of Art: Aesthetic Philosophy after Early Modernity Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsField Notes on the Visual Arts: Seventy-Five Short Essays Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPrinciples of Art History Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Visual Cultures Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Digital Visual Culture: Theory and Practice Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMade to Be Seen: Perspectives on the History of Visual Anthropology Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Pensive Image: Art as a Form of Thinking Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMuseums Matter: In Praise of the Encyclopedic Museum Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Emancipated Spectator Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-Century French Thought Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Polish Media Art in an Expanded Field Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThinking Contemporary Curating Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsUndermining: A Wild Ride Through Land Use, Politics, and Art in the Changing West Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTechnology and Desire: The Transgressive Art of Moving Images Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTime, Duration and Change in Contemporary Art: Beyond the Clock Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Phenomenology of the Visual Arts (even the frame) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Literary Criticism For You
The Art of Seduction: by Robert Greene | Conversation Starters Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself by Michael A. Singer | Conversation Starters Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The 48 Laws of Power: by Robert Greene | Conversation Starters Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Behold a Pale Horse: by William Cooper | Conversation Starters Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/512 Rules For Life: by Jordan Peterson | Conversation Starters Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Verity: by Colleen Hoover | Conversation Starters Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Circe: by Madeline Miller | Conversation Starters Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Man's Search for Meaning: by Viktor E. Frankl | Conversation Starters Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Book of Virtues Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Just Kids: A National Book Award Winner Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Power of Habit: by Charles Duhigg | Conversation Starters Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.by Brené Brown | Conversation Starters Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5SUMMARY Of The Plant Paradox: The Hidden Dangers in Healthy Foods That Cause Disease and Weight Gain Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain | Conversation Starters Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Letters to a Young Poet Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Image Science
Rating: 3.6 out of 5 stars
3.5/5
5 ratings1 review
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5scribd superimposes messages over the text of the book, partially obscuring it. pretty poor interface