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Autore |
Lechte John |
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Titolo |
Genealogy and ontology of the Western image and its digital future / / John Lechte |
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New York : , : Routledge, , 2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-66041-4 |
9786613637345 |
0-203-12184-8 |
1-136-32983-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (217 p.) |
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Collana |
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Routledge advances in art and visual studies ; ; 3 |
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Soggetti |
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Art - Philosophy |
Image (Philosophy) |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Genealogy and Ontology of the Western Image and its Digital Future; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction-'Genealogy', 'Ontology', 'Western Image' and the 'Digital'; Part I: Genealogy and Ontology (Paradigms); 1.The Image in Plato and the Greek World; PART 1; PART 2; PART 3; 2. The Byzantine Image; 3. The Renaissance Image; 4. Transparency and Opacity-The Image in Rousseau, Diderot, Hume and Kant; 5. The Industrial Image; Part II: The Image in Photography and Cinema and its Digital Future |
6. Some Fallacies and Truths Concerning the Image in Old and New Media7. Barthes and Benjamin on the Photographic Image and Time; 8. The Image and Beauty in Relation to Visual Digital Art; 9. The Time-Image; Notes; References; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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With the emerging dominance of digital technology, the time is ripe to reconsider the nature of the image. Some say that there is no longer a phenomenal image, only disembodied information (0-1) waiting to be configured. For photography, this implies that a faith in the principle of an ""evidential force"" - of the impossibility of doubting that the subject |
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