What Do Pictures Want?
Book by W. J. T. Mitchell
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Why do we have such extraordinarily powerful responses toward the images and pictures we see in everyday life? Why do we behave as if pictures were alive, possessing the power to influence us, to demand things from us, to persuade us, seduce us,... Google Books
Originally published: 2005
Author: W. J. T. Mitchell
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“The book displays great analytical energy, playfulness, and insight into the many varied answers that [Mitchell] offers to his own central question: images ...
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What Do Pictures Want? explores this idea and highlights Mitchell's innovative and profoundly influential thinking on picture theory and the lives and loves of ...
The dominant questions about pictures in recent work on visual culture and art history have been interpretive and rhetorical. We want to know what pictures.
What Do Pictures Want? explores this idea and highlights Mitchell's innovative and profoundly influential thinking on picture theory and the lives and loves of ...
Jun 15, 2005 · According to W. J. T. Mitchell, we need to reckon with images not just as inert objects that convey meaning but as animated beings with desires, ...
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"What Do Pictures Want" offers a very broad yet specific look at the role and function of images from a perspective that lies outside of probably every other ...
The dominant questions about pictures in recent work on visual culture and art history have been interpretive and rhetorical. We want to know what pictures.
It is the images which most defy the questions we pose that have been the focus of such endless fascination, wonder, frustration, confusion, and ultimately, ...