CONTENTS

VOLUME 1
UNDERSTANDING IMAGES
General Introduction xii
Introduction xviii

PART IMAGE

1. What an Image? 3
J. T. Mitchell
2. Image, Medium, Body: A New Approach to Iconology 33
Hans Belting
3. Art History and Images That Are Not Art 49
James
4. A Neglected Tradition? Art History as Bildwissenschaft 79
Horst
5. The of the Spectator 91
Jacques
6. Images, Not Signs
Regis Debray

PART 2: D E F I N I N G IMAGES

7. Classical Greek Origins of Western Aesthetic Theory 133

John T. Kirby
8. The Shameful Face of Philosophy 147
Micbele Le

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9. The of the

10. The Origins of Imitation 173

Aristotle
Of the Images that Form on the Back of the Eye 174
Rene Descartes
12. Of in General, and Their Original 180
John Locke
13. Representation and Imagination 190
Immanuel Kant
14. Of the Selection of Images for Conscious Presentation:
What Our Body Means and Does 194
Henri Bergson
15. Modernizing Vision 198
Jonathan Crary

PART 3: IMAGE AND

16. What is Iconoclash? Or is There a World Beyond the Image Wars? 211
Bruno Latour
17. Iconoclasm 237
David Freedberg
18. The Doctrine of the Image and 258
Marie-Jose Mondzain
19. The Precession of Simulacra 270
Jean Baudrillard
20. Ideology, Imagology, and Critical Thought:
The of Politics 275
Jon Simons
21. Making Metapictures Political: Public Screenings
Fall Berlin Wall 298
Manghani
22. What Do Pictures Want? 317
/. T. Mitchell

VOLUME 2
THE PICTORIAL TURN
General Introduction vii
Introduction xiii
Manghani
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PART IMAGE

Thinking as Picturing 3
Judith Genova
2. The Pictorial Turn
W.J.T. Mitchell
3. Pictorial Versus Iconic Turn: Letters 31
Gottfried and W.J.T. Mitchell
4. Do Pictures Really Want to Live? 50
Jacques
5. Reality 60
Nelson Goodman
6. The Information Available in Pictures 81
James J. Gibson
7. On J. J. New Perspective 94
Nelson Goodman
8. Pictures as Ruined Notations 96
James Elkins
PART 2: T E X T A N D IMAGE

9. The Image of Pictures and

Rudolf Arnheim
10. Divide and Narrate: The Tension in Seurat 117
Wendy Steiner
A Proposal for Integrating Readerly Visuality into
Literary Studies: Reflections on Calvino 122
Ellen J. Esrock
12. 'When the trees of language are shaken by in Rene Magritte's
'Les et
Lisa K. Lipinski
The Absent Image: Ekphrasis and the 'Infinite Relation'
of Translation 144
Gary Shapiro
14. The Convention of Captioning: W. G. Sebald and the Release
of the Captive Image 155
Elizabeth Chaplin
PART 3: IMAGE AS T H O U G H T

15. A for Visual Thinking 169

Rudolf Arnheim
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16. Perceptual Metaphor 175

Donald Brook
17. Picturing Vision 190
Snyder
18. How to "See" with the Body 214
Joyce Brodsky
19. Body Images 237
Antonio Damasio
20. A Re-reading of the 'Angel of History' 246
Sigrid

VOLUME 3
IMAGE THEORY
General Introduction vii
Introduction xiii
Sunil Manghani

PART A R T HISTORY

1. The End of the Image Theory 3

Otto Pacht
2. Standards of Truth: The Arrested Image and the Moving Eye 12
E. H. Gombrich
3. Crossing the Frontiers: Mnemosyne Art History
and 30
Michaud

PART BEYOND SEMIOTICS

4. The Third Meaning: Research Notes on Several Eisenstein Stills 43

Roland Barthes
5. Semiotics and Art History 54
and Norman Bryson
6. Marks, Traces, Traits, Contours,
and Splendores: Nonsemiotic Elements in Pictures
James Elkins

PART 3:

7. The Gaze 151

Jacques Lacan
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8. Visual Pleasure and Narrative 165

Laura Mulvey
9. Cindy Sherman's Untitled Film 177
Joan Copjec
10. The Gaze in the Expanded 185
Norman Bryson

PART 4: P H E N O M E N O L O G Y

11. 199
Maurice
12. Representation and Imagination 206
Dufrenne

PART 5: MEDIUMS

On the Very of a 'Specific' Medium: Michael Fried and

Stanley Cavell on Painting and Photography as Arts 215
Diarmuid Costello
14. Visual and Audiovisual: From Image to Moving Image 244
Sean Cubitt
15. Leaving the Movie Theater 255
Roland Barthes
16. Site-seeing: Architecture and the Moving Image 259
Giuliana Bruno
The Sequence-image 269
Victor
18. Affect as Medium, or 280
Mark B.N. Hansen

VOLUME 4
IMAGE CULTURES
General Introduction viii

Introduction xiv
Sunil Manghani

PART 1: VISUAL

1. Cultural Relativism and the Visual Turn 3

Martin Jay
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2. Symbol, Idol and Mürti: Hindu and the Politics

Mediation 15
Gregory Price Grieve
3. Digital Images, Photo-Sharing, and Our Shifting Notions of Everyday
Aesthetics 31
Susan Murray

PART 2: IMAGE AND M E M O R Y

4. Involuntary Memory 47
Marcel Proust
5. Ways of Remembering 50
John Berger
6. Snapshots: Notes on Myth, Memory and Technology - Short Fictions
Concerning the Camera 57
Justin Lorentzen
7. Public Identity and Collective Memory in U.S. Iconic Photography:
The Image of "Accidental Napalm" 62
Robert Hartman and John Louis Lucaites
8. Finding Aids to the Past: Bearing Personal Witness to
Traumatic Public Events 94
Barbie Zelizer
9. and the Image 109
Susan Buck-Morss

PART 3: VISUAL EVIDENCE

10. Visible Materials, Visualised Theory and Images of Social Research 131
Jon Wagner
11. Talking about Pictures: A Case for Photo Elicitation 149
Douglas Harper
The Prosthetic Eye: Photography as Cure and Poison 166
Christopher Pinney
Visual Literacy in Action: "Law in the Age of Images"
Richard K. Sherwin

PART 4: SCIENCE IMAGING

14. Lines, Images: Towards a History of

Scientific Imagery 193
Christoph and Alexis
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15. Visual Abstraction and Anatomy: Pre- and Post-modern 219

Tricia and Philip Bell
16. Images Scatter into Data, Data Gather into Images 231
Peter Galison
17. Sensible in Cognitive Neuroscience 250
Arthur Piper
18. Thoughts Not Our Own: Whatever Happened to Selective Attention? 262
Barbara Maria Stafford
19. Scientific Visualism 279
Don
20. The Neurology of the Piatonic Ideal 290
Zeki

PART 5: M A K I N G IMAGES

21. Writing Hypnagogia 301

Peter Schwenger
22. The Two Kinds of Attention
Anton Ehrenzweig
23. Citizen Hamilton: The Art of Richard Hamilton 324
Poster
24. Being 334
Yve

Appendix of Sources 341