Date of publication on the site: 11 august 2022.
Image as the Theoretical Object
Title: Image as the Theoretical ObjectAuthor: red. Łukasz Kiepuszewski, Michał Haake, Piotr Juszkiewicz
Publisher: Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, Poznań
Publication date: 2020
Pages: 216
ISBN: 978-83-232-3839-3
Image as the Theoretical Object is a second in a series after Strong Images – Weak Images (2018). It is a collection of essays written as a result of art historian conference in Rogalin. These publication is focused is on the relation between work of art a various theoretical strategies employing their iconic potential. Individual papers contain analyses of various kind of conflicting relationships between discourse and visuality in the history of art and humanities. Conclusions derived from each case study allow to put forward questions in wider theoretical perspective. The authors of the considerations draw on different concepts from philosophy (including Plato, Walter Benjamin, Jacques Derrida) theory of visual arts Leon Battista Alberti, Wilhelm Worringer, Hans Sedlmayr, Timothy J. Clark, Hans Belting, Mieke Bal) and works of art from early modernity to contemporary times (Lorenzo Lotto, Edouard Manet, Marcel Duchamp, Paul Klee, Walter Gropius, Władysław Strzemiński, Robert Rumas).