Format:
Online-Ressource (217 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780415887151
Series Statement:
Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies
Content:
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 was before the lens -- is no longer plausible. Technologically speaking, we have arrived at a point where the manipulation of the image is an ever-present possibility, when once it was difficult, if not impossible. What are the key
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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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
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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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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780203121849
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780415887151
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Genealogy and Ontology of the Western Image and its Digital Future
Language:
English
Keywords:
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