The Stone Art Theory Institutes. What Is an Image? / / ed. by James Elkins, Maja Naef.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
• MitwirkendeR: Elkins, James,; Pichler, Wolfram,
• HerausgeberIn: Elkins, James,; Naef, Maja,
• Place / Publishing House: University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: The Stone Art Theory Institutes ; 2
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (296 p.) :; 3 illustrations

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Series Preface -- Introduction -- The Seminars -- Assessments -- Afterword -- Notes on the Contributors -- Index