What do images want

Drawing Desire 4. Founding Objects 6. Offending Images 7. Empire and Objecthood 8. Romanticism and the Life of Things 9. Addressing Media Abstraction and Intimacy Related Titles. Harold Rosenberg Debra Bricker Balken. Two Thumbs Up Stephanie Ross. The Art of the Bird Roger J.

Still I'd recomm This writer is really interesting and really solid. Still I'd recommend it. Jun 27, Paul rated it liked it. Especially see p6. Sep 22, Katie marked it as to-read. I just listened to him talk about this book in an old Bad at Sports. Aug 27, Pawel rated it it was amazing. The author efficiently navigates between various properties and categories of imaging. He outlines the scope of the beginnings of reasoning with a picture, and also forecasts its future and new character.

In the book, he refers to specific examples from the history of art, and also touches upon the psychophysiology of seeing and anthropology. A must-have for people dealing with visual arts painting, graphics, intermedia. I think Mitchell's essays will become a staple for me going forward, regardless of whether or not I end up pursuing a path in academia.

There is something quite well-rounded and compelling about Mitchell's work that makes it worth revisiting. Aug 22, Krystl Louwagie rated it liked it. There are 3 parts. I do plan on reading all parts someday though because I found the first part interesting in parts-other parts too hard to grasps. The title was basically what I read about-asking pictures what they want an discussing the possible answers.

It had some very intriguing ideas. Apr 03, Ellie rated it really liked it. Had a hard time getting through the first half of this book, then the second half things got more specific, discussing actual mediums, works of art etc. I finished it about a week ago, and find the ideas are still bouncing around in my head Feb 10, David rated it liked it.

It is a compelling piece of visual culture studies. Jan 05, Jen rated it really liked it. Sometimes the concepts required re-reading and extensive thought in various contexts, however the style was very readable and the ideas most interesting. The author is both likable and respectable as a narrator and academic. Peter Oresick rated it liked it Dec 04, Kk rated it it was amazing May 01, Michael rated it liked it Jan 22, Suadyta rated it liked it Apr 26, Zachary Harless rated it it was amazing Jun 21, Katrinka rated it really liked it Sep 12, Ana Peraica rated it it was amazing Apr 23, Emily rated it it was amazing Oct 28, Yazan rated it really liked it Feb 06, Katie rated it it was amazing Jun 01, Eliot O'Connell rated it really liked it Dec 26, MelanieFlood rated it really liked it Mar 27, Laise rated it it was amazing Jul 29, Jo Verbena rated it really liked it Aug 13, There are no discussion topics on this book yet.

Be the first to start one ». Readers also enjoyed. About W. Editor of the journal Critical Inquiry. His monographs, Iconology and Picture Theory , focus on media theory and visual culture.

He draws on ideas from Sigmund Freud and Karl Marx to demonstrate that, essentially, we must consider pictures to be living things.

His collection of essays What Do Pictures Want? In a recent podcast interview Mitchell traces his interest in visual culture to early work on William Blake, and his then burgeoning interest in developing a science of images. In that same interview he discusses his ongoing efforts to rethink visual culture as a form of life and in light of digital media.

Books by W. Ranging across the visual arts, literature, and mass media, Mitchell applies characteristically brilliant and wry analyses to Byzantine icons and cyberpunk films, racial stereotypes and public monuments, ancient idols and modern clones, offensive images and found objects, American photography and aboriginal painting. Opening new vistas in iconology and the emergent field of visual culture, he also considers the importance of Dolly the Sheep?

A work by one of our leading theorists of visual representation, it will be a touchstone for art historians, literary critics, anthropologists, and philosophers alike. A treasury of episodes? Norman Bryson, Artforum.