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What Do Pictures Want?: The Lives and Loves of Images
W. J. T. Mitchell
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Description for What Do Pictures Want?: The Lives and Loves of Images
Paperback. Num Pages: 408 pages, 16 colour plates, 84 halftones, 10 line drawings. BIC Classification: AB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 155 x 29. Weight in Grams: 654.
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, or even lead us astray?
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, needs, appetites, demands, and drives of their own. What Do Pictures Want? explores this idea and highlights Mitchell's innovative and profoundly influential thinking on ... Read more
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, or even lead us astray?
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, needs, appetites, demands, and drives of their own. What Do Pictures Want? explores this idea and highlights Mitchell's innovative and profoundly influential thinking on ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Number of Pages
408
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226532486
SKU
V9780226532486
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99-26
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