What Do Pictures Want?: The Lives and Loves of Images Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

What Do Pictures Want?: The Lives and Loves of Images Book

What Do Pictures Want? : Paperback : The University of Chicago Press : 9780226532486 : 0226532488 : 15 Nov 2006 : Why do we have such extraordinarily powerful responses toward the images and pictures we see in everyday life? Why do we behave as if pictures were alive, possessing the power to influence us, to demand things from us, to persuade us, seduce us, or even lead us astray? According to W. J. T. Mitchell, we need to reckon with images not just as inert objects that convey meaning but as animated beings with desires, needs, appetites, demands, and drives of their own. What Do Pictures Want? explores...Read More

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  • Blackwell

    Why do we have such extraordinarily powerful responses toward the images and pictures we see in everyday life? Why do we behave as if pictures were alive, possessing the power to influence us, to demand things from us, to persuade us, seduce us...

  • 0226532488
  • 9780226532486
  • WJT Mitchell
  • 3 November 2006
  • Chicago University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 408
  • New edition
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