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Image Acts
A Systematic Approach to Visual Agency
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Horst Bredekamp
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English
Published/Copyright:
2021
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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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Frontmatter
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Table of Contents
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Preface to the Second English Edition
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Preface to the English Edition
XI - Introduction: The Problematic Centrality of the Image
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1. Increasing Reflection of the Image
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2. Leonardo’s Invitation to Captivity
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3. The Energeia of the Image
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1. Defining the Image
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2. Plato, Heidegger, Lacan
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3. Speech Act and Image Act
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1. Early Statements in the First Person Singular
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2. The Signature as Witness to the Self
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3. Works of Art that Speak
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1. Living Images
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2. The Vitality of Mechanised Movement
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3. Liminal Bodies: From Beauty to Biofact
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1. The Media of Substitution
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2. Forms of Substitution in a Social Context
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3. Dominion, Insurrection, War
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1. The Image as Beholder
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2. The Dynamics of Formal Self-Transgression
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3. The Irresistibility of Form
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1. Evolution and the Image Act
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2. The Play of Images in Nature
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3. Image-active Enlightenment
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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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eBook published on:
April 19, 2021
eBook ISBN:
9783110725827
Paperback published on:
April 19, 2021
Paperback ISBN:
9783110725698
Edition:
2nd edition
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Front matter:
13
Main content:
361
Coloured Illustrations:
199
Audience(s) for this book
Academics (history of art, visual sciences, philosophy, cultural studies)
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