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Presence - The Inherence of the Prototype within Images and Other Objects (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Presence - The Inherence of the Prototype within Images and Other Objects (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Histories of Vision
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In about 25 BC tribesmen of the kingdom of Meroe placed a bronze
head of Augustus, cut from a full-length statue, beneath the steps
of a temple of victory: the decapitated head of the Emperor was
thus regularly trampled underfoot. Two millennia later, during the
second Gulf War, Iraqis 'insulted' a toppled bronze statue of
Saddam Hussein by beating it with their shoes. Do these
chronologically distant but apparently related examples of the
defamation of images imply that the persons represented were
regarded by their detractors as in some way 'present' in the
images? Presence: The Inherence of the Prototype within Images and
Other Objects reconsiders the notion of 'presence' in objects. The
first book to address the issue directly, it contains a series of
case studies covering a broad geographical and chronological range
from ancient Greece and the Incas to industrial America and
contemporary India, as well as examples from the canon of western
European art. The studies reveal the widespread evidence for this
striking form of response and allow readers to see how 'presence'
is evoked and either embraced or repressed in differing historical
and cultural contexts. Featuring a variety of disciplines and
approaches, the book will be of interest to students of art
history, art theory, visual culture, anthropology, psychology and
philosophy.
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