Image, Icon, Economy: The Byzantine Origins of the Contemporary Imaginary
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The barest awareness of the ubiquity and influence of the media today provides proof enough that our fate is in the hands of the image. But when and how was this fate sealed? Image, Icon, Economy considers this question and recounts an essential thread in the conceptualization of visual images within the Western tradition. This book argues that the extraordinary force of the image in contemporary life--the contemporary imaginary--can be...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0804741018
ISBN13:9780804741019
Release Date:November 2004
Publisher:Stanford University Press
Length:280 Pages
Weight:0.90 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.1" x 8.9"
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