Dynamis of the Image : : Moving Images in a Global World / / ed. by Emmanuel Alloa, Chiara Cappelletto.

Images are not neutral conveyors of messages shipped around the globe to achieve globalized spectatorship. They are powerful forces that elicit very diverse responses and can resist new visual hegemonies of our global world. Bringing together case studies from the field of media, art, politics, reli...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Art and Architecture eBook-Package 2020
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Contact Zones : Studies in Global Art , 5
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Physical Description:1 online resource (388 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Content
  • The Dynamis of the Image (and the Genesis of a Book)
  • Potentialities
  • On the ‘Virtus’ of Images. Medieval Practices, Contemporary Theories
  • Ta’angá verá. The Power of Images in an Amerindian Perspective
  • The Migration of Images. An Encounter with Figuration in Islamic Art
  • Wanderstrassen. Traveling Images – Moving Ideas Between Continents
  • Method, Madness, and Montage
  • On Screen
  • Images at War, Images of Wars
  • Torrents and Barricades
  • ‘Just Terror’. The Visual Communication of ISIS
  • Visual Empire 2.0
  • The Dynamis of Fiction in the Globalized World. On Walid Raad’s Images in Transfer
  • Visualizing Autoimmunity. Gerhard Richter’s War Cut
  • Decentering Visual Studies
  • Image Degree Zero. From the Empirical Image to Image as Capacity
  • Images as Active Powers for Reality. A Simondonian Approach to Medical Imaging
  • From Speculative to Heretical Orientalism. The Paul Klee Syndrome in the Hamed Abdalla Archives
  • The Transformative Museum. Why We Need an Other Museum for the Arts of Islam
  • Authors
  • Picture Credits
  • Plates