Grammatology of Images: A History of the A-Visible (Commonalities)

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Synopsis
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.
Copyright:
2015

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
320 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781531500160
Related ISBNs:
9781531500153, 9781531500276
Publisher:
Fordham University Press
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Suhrkamp Verlag Berlin
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Literature and Fiction, Language Arts, Philosophy
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Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.
Translator:
Chadwick Truscott Smith

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