Title:
Dynamics and performativity of imagination : the image between the visible and the invisible
Author:
Hüppauf, Bernd Hüppauf, Bernd-Rüdiger.
ISBN:
9780415990936
Publication Information:
New York : Routledge, 2009.
Physical Description:
xii, 372 s.
Series:
Routledge research in cultural and media studies ; 21
Contents:
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.