The Ground of the Image /

If anything marks the image, it is a deep ambivalence. Denounced as superficial, illusory, and groundless, images are at the same time attributed with exorbitant power and assigned a privileged relation to truth. Mistrusted by philosophy, forbidden and embraced by religions, manipulated as?spectacle...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nancy, Jean-Luc (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Francés
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2005.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Visual Arts - General.
Art, Architecture & Applied Arts.
Visual Arts.
Image (Philosophy)
Aesthetics.
PHILOSOPHY > Aesthetics.
Image (Philosophie)
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:If anything marks the image, it is a deep ambivalence. Denounced as superficial, illusory, and groundless, images are at the same time attributed with exorbitant power and assigned a privileged relation to truth. Mistrusted by philosophy, forbidden and embraced by religions, manipulated as?spectacle? and proliferated in the media, images never cease to present their multiple aspects, their paradoxes, their flat but receding spaces. What is this power that lies in the depths and recesses of an image?which is always only an impenetrable surface? What secrets are concealed in the ground or in the.
Physical Description:1 online resource (176 pages): illustrations.
ISBN:9780823238460
ISSN:1089-3938 ;

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