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What Do Pictures Want?: The Lives and Loves of Images
W. J. T. Mitchell
The author argues that we need to reckon with images not merely as inert objects that convey meaning but as animated beings with desires, needs, appetites, and drives of their own. He explores this idea and highlights his innovative and profoundly influential thinking on picture theory and the lives and loves of images.
408 pages, 16 colour plates, 84 halftones, 10 line drawings
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | November 15, 2006 |
| ISBN13 | 9780226532486 |
| Publishers | The University of Chicago Press |
| Pages | 408 |
| Dimensions | 146 × 226 × 25 mm · 640 g |
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