Dynamics and Performativity of Imagination (eBook, ePUB)

The Image between the Visible and the Invisible
Redaktion: Huppauf, Bernd; Wulf, Christoph

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In this interdisciplinary anthology, essays study the relationship between the imagination and images both material and mental. Through case studies on a diverse array of topics including photography, film, sports, theater, and anthropology, contributors focus on the role of the creative imagination in seeing and producing images and the imaginary.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CY, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, HR, H, IRL, I, LT, L, LR, M, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136603594
• Artikelnr.: 38273429

Autorenporträt

Bernd Huppauf is Professor Emeritus of New York University and former Director of Deutsches Haus. Christoph Wulf is co-founder of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Historical Anthropology at the Free University Berlin.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction: The Indispensability of the Imagination
Bernd Huppauf and Christoph Wulf
Part I: Imagination, Fantasy and Creativity
Introduction to Part I
2 Imagination
Gert Mattenklott
3 Aesthetic Immanence
Georges Didi-Huberman
4 Imagination, Figurality and Creativity: Conditions of Cultural Innovation
Dieter Mersch
5 Intuition and Imagination: How to See Something that is Not There
Ludger Schwarte
Part II: A Look at Pictures - Pictures Look Back
Introduction to Part II
6 What is: Seeing an Image?
Marie José Mondzain
7 The Gaze in the Image: A Contribution to an Iconology of the Gaze
Hans Belting
8 Imagination or Response?: Some Remarks on the Understanding of Images and
Pictures in Pre-modern China
Mathias Obert
9 The Nature of Face Recognition: A Perspective from the Cognitive
Neurosciences David Poeppel and Clare Stroud
Part III: Body Images and Body Imaginations
Introduction to Part III
10 The Neapolitan Gesture
Gunter Gebauer
11 Images of Social Life
Christoph Wulf
12 Performative Spaces and Imagined Spaces: How Bodily Movement Sets the
Imagination in Motion
Erika Fischer-Lichte
13 Media Images, Sports Rituals and the Imaginary
K. Ludwig Pfeiffer
14 Ferocious Images
Peter Sloterdijk
Part IV: Indeterminacy and Fuzziness of Images
Introduction to Part IV
15 Indeterminacy: On the Logic of the Image
Gottfried Boehm
16 Between Imitation and Simulation: Towards an Aesthetics of Fuzzy Images
Bernd Huppauf
17 A Small History (of) Still Passing
Rebecca Schneider
18 Scribbling, Scraping off, Painting over: Effacing Pictures in Literary
Texts
Gabriele Brandstetter
19 Kierkegaard's Shadow Figures
Martin Puchner
Part V: Constructions of the Visual
Introduction to Part V
20 The Unspeakable and the Unimaginable: Word and Image in a Time of Terror
W.J.T. Mitchell
21 Face and Mass: Towards an Aesthetic of the Cross-Cut in Film
Gertrud Koch
22 Synaesthesia: Physiological Diagnosis, Practice of Perception, Art
Program: A Semiotic Re-analysis
Roland Posner and Dagmar Schmauks
23 Recognisability and Visual Evidence in Medical Imaging versus Scientific
Objectivity
Britta Schinzel
Notes on Contributors
Index