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GOOD LOOKING. ESSAYS ON THE VIRTUE OF IMAGES,

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GOOD LOOKING. ESSAYS ON THE VIRTUE OF IMAGES,

by STAFFORD, Barbara Maria;

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Cambridge Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1997. Pictorial softcover, 175 x 230mm., 259pp., b/w illustration. ISBN 9780262692106. Building on the arguments of her previous books, Body Criticism (MIT Press, 1991) and Artful Science (MIT Press, 1994), Good Looking challenges the reflexive identification of images with vice. Today rampant criticism, both inside and outside the academy, condemns the immoralities of aesthetic illusion, museum display, cable television, and hypermedia. Believing with the American pragmatists that it is harder to do than to denounce, Barbara Stafford urges imagists to abandon Foucault's bankrupt paradigm of verbal combat. Instead of more "improving" theoretical discourse, she calls for developing a positive visual praxis on the interpretive ruins of linguistic postmodernism. Organized around three major themes?the explosion of optical information, the urgency of inventing an imaging interdiscipline, and the ethical dilemmas of technological transparency?these twelve essays connect a disappearing lens culture to the digital diaphanousness of the twenty-first century. Book is in good condition.

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Title
GOOD LOOKING. ESSAYS ON THE VIRTUE OF IMAGES,
Author
STAFFORD, Barbara Maria;
Book Condition
Used
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Paperback
ISBN 10
0262692104
ISBN 13
9780262692106
Publisher
Cambridge Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1997
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Cumberland, Rhode Island, U.s.a.
This edition first published
February 6, 1998
Keywords
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