本书主要探讨作为当代全球化社会重要特征之一的艺术与文化上的图像“转向”(pictorial turn)论题。本书的各个章节，既涉及到对新近及当代艺术和文化的哲学分析，也包含了对反映于哲学上的各处理理论所做的研究。在带有引言性的章节里，并且结合弗里德里克·詹姆逊的分析，论证了当代文化，即后现代文化最突出的特点不仅是视觉化，而且是全球化和商品化。作者指出，在现代主义与后现代主义之间，以及在现代性与后现代性之间存在着差异和连续性；在第一章，作者从更加广阔的视野对现代和后现代的视觉艺术与文化论题做了进一步的探讨。并且认为，近来的图像崇拜文化实践与图像破坏的理论反响在西方历史中是经常出现的。作者认为，莫里斯·格洛-庞蒂的存在主义现象学不仅是克服现代西方人把主客体分开的基础，而且也是战胜把造型与话语分离的基石。正是为了这一目的，作者在第四章对让-弗朗索瓦·利奥塔...(展开全部)

本书主要探讨作为当代全球化社会重要特征之一的艺术与文化上的图像“转向”(pictorial turn)论题。本书的各个章节，既涉及到对新近及当代艺术和文化的哲学分析，也包含了对反映于哲学上的各处理理论所做的研究。在带有引言性的章节里，并且结合弗里德里克·詹姆逊的分析，论证了当代文化，即后现代文化最突出的特点不仅是视觉化，而且是全球化和商品化。作者指出，在现代主义与后现代主义之间，以及在现代性与后现代性之间存在着差异和连续性；在第一章，作者从更加广阔的视野对现代和后现代的视觉艺术与文化论题做了进一步的探讨。并且认为，近来的图像崇拜文化实践与图像破坏的理论反响在西方历史中是经常出现的。作者认为，莫里斯·格洛-庞蒂的存在主义现象学不仅是克服现代西方人把主客体分开的基础，而且也是战胜把造型与话语分离的基石。正是为了这一目的，作者在第四章对让-弗朗索瓦·利奥塔...(展开全部)

The Image, an acclaimed erotic novel, is one of only five erotic novels credited with true literary status by Susan Sontag. It is a tale of bondage, dominance and submission in the tradition of The Story Of O. The narrator, Jean, is assisted by Claire in the domination of the subservient Anne in a series of sexually explicit scenarios. Like O, The Image is ultimately a potent, ...(展开全部)

What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? To answer these questions, Mr. Lynch, supported by studies of Los Angeles, Boston, and Jersey City, formulates a new criterion--imageability--and shows its potential value as a guide for the building and rebuil...(展开全部)

What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? To answer these questions, Mr. Lynch, supported by studies of Los Angeles, Boston, and Jersey City, formulates a new criterion--imageability--and shows its potential value as a guide for the building and rebuil...(展开全部)

In this book van Fraassen develops an alternative to scientific realism by constructing and evaluating three mutually reinforcing theories.

In this book van Fraassen develops an alternative to scientific realism by constructing and evaluating three mutually reinforcing theories.

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 spectacleand proliferated in the media, images never cease to present their multiple aspe...(展开全部)

In "The Future of the Image", Jacques Ranciere develops a fascinating new concept of the image in contemporary art, showing how art and politics have always been intrinsically intertwined. Covering a range of art movements, and thinkers such as Foucault, Deleuze, Adorno, Barthes, Lyotard and Greenberg, Ranciere argues that contemporary theorists of the image are suffering from ...(展开全部)