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Commonalities Ser.: Grammatology of Images : A History of the A-Visible by Sigrid Weigel (2022, Hardcover)
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Delve into the realms of art, literary criticism, and philosophy with Sigrid Weigel's "Grammatology of Images: A History of the A-Visible.". Published by Fordham University Press in 2022 as part of the Commonalities Series, it spans 320 pages of insightful exploration.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherFordham University Press
ISBN-101531500153
ISBN-139781531500153
eBay Product ID (ePID)18057285936
Product Key Features
Number of Pages320 Pages
Publication NameGrammatology of Images : a History of the A-Visible
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2022
SubjectCriticism & Theory, General, Aesthetics, Semiotics & Theory
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Art, Philosophy
AuthorSigrid Weigel
SeriesCommonalities Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight25.3 Oz
Item Length9.3 in
Item Width6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2022-013037
Reviews"Sigrid Weigel has provided a masterful overview of the infinite variety of image-practices, from the most primitive forms of mark-making, to effigies and monuments, to the dematerialized images of ghosts, angels, and memories, to screen culture and cultural icons. This authoritative volume will be essential to students of iconology, art history, and visual culture who will enjoy its wide range and original insights." ---W. J. T. Mitchell, author of What Do Pictures Want?,, What do a video of a burning American flag, an MRI of the brain, and Raphael's Madonna have in common? With stunning breath and erudition, Weigel concretizes what Derrida only suspected, completes what Benjamin was unable to finish, and clarifies what mystified Warburg--revealing the powerful forces hidden at the singular point of culture, which turn cyphers into images, from the banal to the most sacred. ---Jimena Canales, author of Bedeviled: A Shadow History of Demons in Science,, "What do a video of a burning American flag, an MRI of the brain, and Raphael's Madonna have in common? With stunning breath and erudition, Weigel concretizes what Derrida only suspected, completes what Benjamin was unable to finish, and clarifies what mystified Warburg--revealing the powerful forces hidden at the singular point of culture, which turn cyphers into images, from the banal to the most sacred." ---Jimena Canales, author of Bedeviled: A Shadow History of Demons in Science,, What do a video of a burning American flag, an MRI of the brain, and Raphael's Madonna have in common? With stunning breath and erudition, Weigel concretizes what Derrida only suspected, completes what Benjamin was unable to finish, and clarifies what mystified Warburg--revealing the powerful forces hidden at the singular point of culture, which turn cyphers into images, from the banal to the most sacred. ---Jimena Canales, author of Bedeviled: A Shadow History of Demons in Science, Sigrid Weigel has provided a masterful overview of the infinite variety of image-practices, from the most primitive forms of mark-making, to effigies and monuments, to the dematerialized images of ghosts, angels, and memories, to screen culture and cultural icons. This authoritative volume will be essential to students of iconology, art history, and visual culture who will enjoy its wide range and original insights. ---W. J. T. Mitchell, author of What Do Pictures Want?, Sigrid Weigel has provided a masterful overview of the infinite variety of image-practices, from the most primitive forms of mark-making, to effigies and monuments, to the dematerialized images of ghosts, angels, and memories, to screen culture and cultural icons. This authoritative volume will be essential to students of iconology, art history, and visual culture who will enjoy its wide range and original insights. ---W. J. T. Mitchell, author of What Do Pictures Want?,
Dewey Edition23
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal128.3
Table Of ContentNote to the English-Language Edition vii List of Figures ix Introduction : Toward a Grammatology of Images 1 1 The Trace and the Current Revaluation of Lines 15 2 Faces: Between Trace and Image, Encoding and Measurement 43 3 Indexical Images: Trace, Resemblance, and Code 84 4 Effigies : Double, Representation, and the Supplementary Economy of the Likeness ( Ebenbild ) 101 5 Defamatory Images: Disfiguration in Physiognomy and Caricature's Two Bodies 118 6 Cult Images: Iconoclastic Controversy, the Desire for Images, and the Dialectic of Secularization 170 7 Angels: Images of Making-Appearance between Religion, Art, and Science 202 8 Perspectives of the Grammatology of Images beyond Visual Culture 264 Notes 275 Bibliography 319 Index 347
SynopsisGrammatology of Images radically alters how we approach images by asking after imaging as such. How does something a-visible get transformed into an image? The book illuminates fascinating, unexpected correspondences between premodern and contemporary image-practices, between religion and science, and between things that are and are not understood as art., Grammatology of Images radically alters how we approach images. Instead of asking for the history, power, or essence of images, Sigrid Weigel addresses imaging as such. The book considers how something a-visible gets transformed into an image. Weigel scrutinizes the moment of mis-en-apparition , of making an appearance, and the process of concealment that accompanies any imaging. Weigel reinterprets Derrida's and Freud's concept of the trace as that which must be thought before something exists. In doing so, she illuminates the threshold between traces and iconic images, between something immaterial and its pictorial representation. Chapters alternate between general accounts of the line, the index, the effigy, and the cult-image, and case studies from the history of science, art, politics, and religion, involving faces as indicators of emotion, caricatures as effigies of defamation, and angels as embodiments of transcendental ideas. Weigel's approach to images illuminates fascinating, unexpected correspondences between premodern and contemporary image-practices, between the history of religion and the modern sciences, and between things that are and are not understood as art.
LC Classification NumberB105.I47W3313 2022
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