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

by W.J. Thomas Mitchell and Professor W. J. T. Mitchell

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226532488
• ISBN13: 9780226532486
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"