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Image Acts
A Systematic Approach to Visual Agency
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Horst Bredekamp
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Translated by:
Elizabeth Clegg
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English
Published/Copyright:
2018
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Heavily represented sections of contemporary philosophy subscribe to the notion of "embodiment". However promising this pragmatic turn of events may be, it remains limited in that it interprets the world as a projection of the cognizing "I". By contrast, Image Acts focuses on the counterforce of the form of images. The book subdivides this sphere into three parts: imitation, substitution, and the pure effect of the form. All three parts are contemplated with examples from antiquity through to the present and the iconoclastic controversies of our times. From this reconstruction of the image act springs the element of a new philosophy of affordance.
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Horst Bredekamp, Humboldt University, Berlin.
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Table of Contents
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Preface to the English Edition
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Introduction: The Problematic Centrality of the Image
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I. Origins and Concepts
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II. Inherent Theory
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III. Schematic Image Acts: Animation of the Image
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IV. Substitutive Image Acts: The Exchange of Body and Image
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V. Intrinsic Image Acts: Image as Form
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VI. Conclusion: The Nature of the Image Act
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Postscript: The Eye in Flight
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Acknowledgements
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Bibliography
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Index
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Picture Credits
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December 18, 2017
eBook ISBN:
9783110548570
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
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11
Main content:
361
Coloured Illustrations:
199
eBook ISBN:
9783110548570
Audience(s) for this book
Academics (art history, visual studies, philosophy, cultural studies)
