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Grammatology of Images - A History of the A-Visible (Paperback)
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Grammatology of Images - A History of the A-Visible (Paperback)
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Grammatology of Images radically alters how we approach images.
Instead of asking for the history, power, or essence of images,
Sigrid Weigel addresses imaging as such. The book considers how
something a-visible gets transformed into an image. Weigel
scrutinizes the moment of mis-en-apparition, of making an
appearance, and the process of concealment that accompanies any
imaging. Weigel reinterprets Derrida's and Freud's concept of the
trace as that which must be thought before something exists. In
doing so, she illuminates the threshold between traces and iconic
images, between something immaterial and its pictorial
representation. Chapters alternate between general accounts of the
line, the index, the effigy, and the cult-image, and case studies
from the history of science, art, politics, and religion, involving
faces as indicators of emotion, caricatures as effigies of
defamation, and angels as embodiments of transcendental ideas.
Weigel's approach to images illuminates fascinating, unexpected
correspondences between premodern and contemporary image-practices,
between the history of religion and the modern sciences, and
between things that are and are not understood as art.
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