Theory of the Image
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 27 June 2019
- ISBN 9780190924034
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages432 pages
- Size 160x243x38 mm
- Weight 558 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 54 illus. 0
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Short description:
Theory of the Image offers a new and systematic philosophy of art and aesthetics from the perspective of movement.
MoreLong description:
We live in an age of the mobile image. The world today is absolutely saturated with analog and digital images of all kinds circulating around the world at an incredible rate. The movement of the image has never been more extraordinary than it is today. This recent kinetic revolution of the image has hitherto unconsidered consequences not only for the way we think about contemporary art and aesthetics but also for art history as well.
Responding to this historical moment, Theory of the Image offers a fresh new aesthetics and history of art from the perspective of this epoch-defining mobility. The image has been understood in many ways, but rarely, if ever, has it been understood to be, primarily and above all, in motion. This original approach is what defines Theory of the Image and what allows it to offer the first kinetic history of the Western art tradition. In this book, Thomas Nail further develops his larger philosophy of movement into a comprehensive "kinesthetics" of the moving image from prehistory to the present. The book concludes with a vivid analysis of the contemporary digital image and its hybridity, ultimately outlining new territory for research and exploration across aesthetics, art history, cultural theory, and media studies.
This is an engaging book with a fascinating argument. Thomas Nail stakes out new territory, building a theory from the group up of the image as kinetic
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Part I: Kinesthetics
1. The Flow of Matter
2. The Fold of Affect
3. The Field of Art
Part II: History of the Image
I. The Functional Image
4. Centripetal Function
5. The Prehistoric Image
II. The Formal Image
6. Centrifugal Form
7. The Ancient Image I
8. The Ancient Image II
III. The Relational Image
9. Tensional Relation
10. The Medieval Image I
11. The Medieval Image II
IV. The Differential Image
12. Elastic Difference
13. The Modern Image I
14. The Modern Image II
Part III: The Contemporary Image
15. The Digital Image
16. The Generative Image
Conclusion
