Images, Reality, and Digital Culture

Towards a Post-pictorial Condition
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-81804-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 214 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm

Reihe: Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies

Focusing on the moment of transition from the pictorial to the post-pictorial condition, this book advocates the opinion that what fundamentally distinguishes pictorial representation in Western civilization is one’s ability to distinguish what the picture shows from what the picture refers to, and to that extent the reality inside the picture cannot be confused with what is outside it.

The contributions in this book serve as kind of a “missing link”, connecting the genealogy of traditional images with contemporary environmental visualizations in the world that in this very moment undergoes a transition into a new, exciting age in which many old knowledges are rapidly becoming obsolete, and new ones are seeking their legitimacy. Instead of leading the reader to reconciliation with the fatal diagnosis of the world under the rule of technological determinism, this book indicates the key points of transition between the pictorial representation that traditionally “belonged” to the history of art and the virtual presence that is approached in quite different ways today.

This book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, image philosophy, image studies, and digital studies.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Purgar, Kresimir

Purgar, Krešimir

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Installations-, Aktions-, Computer- und Videokunst

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: What is the Post-pictorial Condition? PART I THE STATE OF THE IMAGE IN DIGITAL CULTURE 1. Resurgence or Twilight of Images? 2. Welcome to the Desert of the Code. 3. We are All in the Picture. 4. The Visual Politics of Populism 5. Black Hole Picture.  6. Atmosphere, Affection, Visual Cognition. Images and Emotions in Blade Runner 2049 7. Unreal Architecture, Impossible Places. PART III THE STATE OF REALITY IN THE DIGITAL AGE 8. Images and Derealization. 9. From Cyberspace to Virtual Space. 10.  Recycling Reality. 11. Reality of the Image, Image of Reality.

Über Autor(innen)

Krešimir Purgar is a Professor in the Academy of Arts and Culture at J. J. Strossmayer University, Osijek, Croatia.