(Ebook) Images: A Reader by Sunil Manghani, Arthur Piper, Jon Simons ISBN 9781412900454, 141290045X

(Ebook) Images: A Reader by Sunil Manghani, Arthur Piper, Jon Simons ISBN 9781412900454, 141290045X

Images: A Reader provides a key resource for students, academics, practitioners and other readers engaged in the critical, theoretical, and practical study of images. The Reader is concerned with the notion of the ‘image’ in all its theoretical, critical and practical contexts, uses and history. It provides a map of the differences and similarities between the various disciplinary approaches to images, breaking the ground for a new interdisciplinary study of images, in the arts and humanities and beyond. The selection of over 80 key readings, across the domains of philosophy, art, literature, science, critical theory and cultural studies tells the story of images through intellectual history from the Bible to the present. By including both well-established writings and more recent, innovative research, the Reader outlines crucial developments in contemporary discourses about images.