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===== (\1 --0 :':::==(0 ----5'It-lll-rRoad ThousandOaks.Californ ia 9 I320 SAGEPubli cat ionsIndiaPvtLtd B-42.Panchshcc- l EnclavPo, tBox 4 I09 NewDelhi110 017 Briti,h Lihrar)' Cata loguing illPublication data A cataloguerecord forthis bookis available fromt heHritishLibrary ISBN, IO 1-4 129-00++- 1 r5fl N13 97H- I 4 I ,19OQ4-,7 ISBN 10 1-4129-0045-X ISflN.Il97S. 1-4 129-0045-4(pbk) Li brary ofCongrt.ssControl Numbcs-: 200591054 1 Typ"" ,thy C&MDlgit.,I ,(p)I.td. ,Chcnnai,India Pr inkdondboundinGreatBr itainv)"The CromwellPressl.td,\Vi!t hire Prin tedonpdperfr omsusta inabl ere sour ces CONT ENTS AcknowledBCIlI CtlCSxiii Publishers' Permissionsxiv GenerallncroJuctiOlJHistorical and Philosophical Part One: Precedents19 I:From Genesis to locke20 Introduction21 1.1Man Created in God'sImage24 Gen esisI : 26and27 1.2GravenImages24 Exodus20:4-6 1.3Abraham and theIdol Shop of' HisFather Terah24 Midrash Rabbah 1.4The Simile o f the Cave25 Plato 1.5Ar tand Illusion29 Plato 1.6The Origins of Imitation31 Ar isto tle 1.7Thinking withImages32 Aristotle 1.8John of Damascus33 1.9Horos at Nicaca, 787AD33 1.10Horos a tNiera, 754AD34 1.11Image and Idolatry ThomasHobbes 34 1.12EvilDemon Rene Descer tes 36 L13Optics Rene Descartes 37 1.14OfIdeas lulul Locke 39 2:from Kant to Freud Introduction 41 42 2.1Representation and Imagination Immanuel Kant 45 2.2Space and Time Gotthold 48 2.3Camera Obscura Karl Marxand Friedrich Engels 49 2.4The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret Thereof KarlMar-x 50 2.5How the Real World at Last Became aMyth Friedrich Nietzsche 52 2.6On Truth and Liesin aNon-Moral Sense Friedrich Nietzsche 53 2.7Images, Bodies and Consciousness Henr-i54 2.8The Dream-Work Sigmund Freud 5(, Part Two:Theories of Images 61 3:Ideology Critique Introduction 62 61 3.1Television: Multilayered Structure Theodor Adamo 66 CONTENTS:VII 3.2Society of the Spectacle GuyDehord 3.3The Precession of Simulacra Jean Baudrillard 70 69 3.4Image asCommodity Fredric Jameson 74 3.5'Race' andNation Paul Gilroy 3.6Never just Pictures Susan Bordo 76 78 4: Art History Introduction 82 83 4.lStudies i.nIconology ErwinPanofsky 86 4.2Invention and Discovery ErnstUombrich 9l 4.3 Interpretation without Representation, or, The Viewing of Las Menina.'i' SvetlanaAlpers 94 4.4Towards a Visual Critical Theory SusanBuck-Moras 99 s:Semiotics Introduction lUI 102 ;.1Nature of the Linguistic Sign Ferdinandde Saussure lOS ;.2The Sign: IconIndex, and Symbol Charles SandersPeirce 107 S.3The Third Meaning Roland Bar-rhes 109 ;.4From Sub- to SuprasemioticrThe Sign as Bvent MiekeBal 115 S.SThe Semiotic Landscape Gunter Kress and Theo van Leeuwen 11. .._-""""1;.,"1.;11 6: Phenomenology Introduction 6.1Thing and Work Martin Heidegger 6.2Eyeand Mind MauriceMerleau-Ponty 6.3Description Jean-PaulSartre 6.4Imagination Mikel Dufrenne 6.5ScientificVisualism DonIhde 7: Psychoanalysis Introduction 7.1The Gaze JacquesLacan 7.2The All-Perceiving Subject ChristianMetz 7.3Woman as Image (Man as Bearer of the look) Laura Mulvey 7.4Cindy Sherman'sUntitled FilmStills JoanCopjec 7.5Two Kinds of Attention AntonEhrenzweig Part Three: Image Culture 8: Images and Words Introduction 8.1The Roots of Poetry Ernest Fenollosa 8.2Icon and Image Paul Ricoeur 124125 128 131 134 138 I141 14-5 '.146 I149 , I152 I156 159 I164 167 I168 169 172 175 CONTENTS: IX 8.3This isNot aPipe MichelFoucault 179 8.4The Despotic Eyeand its Shadow: Media Image in the Age of literacy Robert D.Romanyshyn 183 8.5Images, Audiences, and Readings Kevin Deluca 188 9:Image as Thought193 Introduction 194 9.1Picture Theory of language 197 ludwigWittgenstein 9.2Body Images 199 AntonioDamasio 9.3Involuntary Memory 202 MarcelProust 9.4The Philosophical Imaginary204 MicheleLe Doeuff 9.5Thought and Cinema: The Time-Image207 Gilles Deleuze 9.6The Dialectical Image 211 WalterBenjamin 9.7Ways of Remembering 214 JohnBerger 10:Fabrication 217 Introduction 218 10.1Taking aline for a Walk 221 Paul Klee 10.2On Montage and the Filmic Fourth Dimension 223 .Sergei Eisenstein 10.3ElectronicTools 227 William].Mitchell ,CONTENTS 10.Can.era Lucida Da'id Hoeknn 2U to.;Images Scatter intoD.ta C.thu in'oln.age' Peter Gahson '" II:visual Culture Introduction ,.2 '" 11.ITheMedium isthe Me..ag' MarshallMel""an

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