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What Do Pictures Want?

Paperback • 2006 • English

What Do Pictures Want?: The lives and loves of images

By W.J.T. Mitchell

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About the book

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 t...Show more

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ISBN

9780226532486

Published year

2006

Language

English

Original title

What Do Pictures Want?

Format

Paperback

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