{"product_id":"grammatology-of-images-a-history-of-the-a-visible-paperback","title":"Grammatology of Images: A History of the A-Visible - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSigrid Weigel\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eChadwick Truscott Smith\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGrammatology of Images\u003c\/i\u003e radically alters how we approach images. Instead of asking for the history, power, or essence of images, Sigrid Weigel addresses imaging as such. The book considers how something a-visible gets transformed into an image. Weigel scrutinizes the moment of \u003ci\u003emis-en-apparition\u003c\/i\u003e, of making an appearance, and the process of concealment that accompanies any imaging. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWeigel reinterprets Derrida's and Freud's concept of the trace as that which must be thought before something exists. In doing so, she illuminates the threshold between traces and iconic images, between something immaterial and its pictorial representation. Chapters alternate between general accounts of the line, the index, the effigy, and the cult-image, and case studies from the history of science, art, politics, and religion, involving faces as indicators of emotion, caricatures as effigies of defamation, and angels as embodiments of transcendental ideas. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWeigel's approach to images illuminates fascinating, unexpected correspondences between premodern and contemporary image-practices, between the history of religion and the modern sciences, and between things that are and are not understood as art.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"What do a video of a burning American flag, an MRI of the brain, and Raphael's Madonna have in common? With stunning breath and erudition, Weigel concretizes what Derrida only suspected, completes what Benjamin was unable to finish, and clarifies what mystified Warburg--revealing the powerful forces hidden at the singular point of culture, which turn cyphers into images, from the banal to the most sacred.\"--\u003cb\u003eJimena Canales\u003c\/b\u003e, author of\u003ci\u003e Bedeviled: A Shadow History of Demons in Science\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Sigrid Weigel has provided a masterful overview of the infinite variety of image-practices, from the most primitive forms of mark-making, to effigies and monuments, to the dematerialized images of ghosts, angels, and memories, to screen culture and cultural icons. This authoritative volume will be essential to students of iconology, art history, and visual culture who will enjoy its wide range and original insights.\"--\u003cb\u003eW. J. T. Mitchell\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eWhat Do Pictures Want?\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eGrammatology of Images\u003c\/i\u003e radically alters how we approach images. Instead of asking for the history, power, or essence of images, Sigrid Weigel addresses imaging as such. The book considers how something a-visible gets transformed into an image. Weigel scrutinizes the moment of \u003ci\u003emis-en-apparition\u003c\/i\u003e, of making an appearance, and the process of concealment that accompanies any imaging. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWeigel reinterprets Derrida's and Freud's concept of the trace as that which must be thought before something exists. In doing so, she illuminates the threshold between traces and iconic images, between something immaterial and its pictorial representation. Chapters alternate between general accounts of the line, the index, the effigy, and the cult-image, and case studies from the history of science, art, politics, and religion, involving faces as indicators of emotion, caricatures as effigies of defamation, and angels as embodiments of transcendental ideas. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWeigel's approach to images illuminates fascinating, unexpected correspondences between premodern and contemporary image-practices, between the history of religion and the modern sciences, and between things that are and are not understood as art. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSigrid Weigel\u003c\/b\u003e is former director of Zentrum für Literatur-und Kulturforschung in Berlin. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eWalter Benjamin: Images, the Creaturely, and the Holy\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSigrid Weigel (Author) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eSigrid Weigel\u003c\/b\u003e is former director of Zentrum für Literatur-und Kulturforschung in Berlin and has taught at numerous universities in the United States and elsewhere around the world. She has published on literature, philosophy, cultural history, image theory, memory, secularization, genealogy, and the cultural history of sciences across numerous books in German and English, including \u003ci\u003eWalter Benjamin: Images, the Creaturely, and the Holy\u003c\/i\u003e (Stanford, 2013). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.83 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 16, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51784744534304,"sku":"9781531500276","price":66.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/838671e9777e52b4c26b39fee5907321.webp?v=1780607504","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/grammatology-of-images-a-history-of-the-a-visible-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}