Releasing the Image: From Literature to New Media

Synopsis

It has become a commonplace that "images" were central to the twentieth century and that their role will be even more powerful in the twenty-first. But what is an image and what can an image be? Releasing the Image understands images as something beyond mere representations of things. Releasing images from that function, it shows them to be self-referential and self-generative, and in this way capable of producing forms of engagement beyond spectatorship and subjectivity. This understanding of images owes much to phenomenology—the work of Husserl, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty—and to Gilles Deleuze's post-phenomenological work. The essays included here cover historical periods from the Romantic era to the present and address a range of topics, from Cézanne's painting, to images in poetry, to contemporary audiovisual art. They reveal the aesthetic, ethical, and political stakes of the project of releasing images and provoke new ways of engaging with embodiment, agency, history, and technology.

Copyright:

2011

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

304 Pages

ISBN-13:

9780804779111

Related ISBNs:

9780804761383, 9780804761376

Publisher:

Stanford University Press

Date of Addition:

05/27/22

Copyrighted By:

the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University.

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

History, Entertainment, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Literature and Fiction, Language Arts, Philosophy

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Bookshare Staff

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Edited by:

Mark Hansen

Edited by:

Peter Geimer

Edited by:

Cesare Casarino

Edited by:

Giorgio Agamben

Edited by:

Robert Mitchell

Edited by:

Jacques Khalip