Releasing the Image: From Literature to New Media

by Robert Mitchell and Robert Mitchell

Book Overview

It has become a commonplace that "images" were central to the twentieth century and that their role will be even more powerful in the twenty-first. But what is an image and what can an image be? Releasing the Image understands images as something beyond mere representations of things. Releasing images from that function, it shows them to be self-referential and self-generative, and in this way capable of producing forms of engagement beyond...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804761388
• ISBN13: 9780804761383
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"