{"product_id":"grammatology-of-images-sigrid-weigel-9781531500276","title":"Grammatology of Images: A History of the A-Visible","description":"\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sigrid Weigel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1531500277\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781531500276\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fordham University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/16\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.83d","brand":"Sigrid Weigel","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44067151708415,"sku":"9781531500276","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bfe87685-97c1-45d9-8cbd-9f87084cf614.jpg?v=1685411504","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/grammatology-of-images-sigrid-weigel-9781531500276","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}