ABSTRACT

In this interdisciplinary anthology, essays study the relationship between the imagination and images both material and mental. Through case studies on a diverse array of topics including photography, film, sports, theater, and anthropology, contributors focus on the role of the creative imagination in seeing and producing images and the imaginary.

 

chapter 1|18 pages

Introduction

The Indispensability of the Imagination

part I|57 pages

Imagination, Fantasy and Creativity

chapter 2|17 pages

Imagination

chapter 3|14 pages

Aesthetic Immanence

chapter 4|9 pages

Imagination, Figurality and Creativity

Conditions of Cultural Innovation

chapter 5|11 pages

Intuition and Imagination

How to See Something that is Not There

part II|75 pages

A Look at Pictures—Pictures Look Back

chapter II|2 pages

Introduction to Part II

chapter 6|12 pages

What Is

Seeing an Image?

chapter 7|23 pages

The Gaze in the Image

A Contribution to an Iconology of the Gaze

chapter 8|19 pages

Imagination or Response?

Some Remarks on the Understanding of Images and Pictures in Pre-Modern China

chapter 9|17 pages

The Nature of Face Recognition

A Perspective from the Cognitive Neurosciences 1

part III|61 pages

Body Images and Body Imaginations

chapter III|2 pages

Introduction to Part III

chapter 10|9 pages

The Neapolitan Gesture

chapter 11|12 pages

Images of Social Life

chapter 12|10 pages

Performative Spaces and Imagined Spaces

How Bodily Movement Sets the Imagination in Motion

chapter 14|12 pages

Ferocious Images

part IV|80 pages

Indeterminacy and Fuzziness of Images

chapter IV|2 pages

Introduction to Part IV

chapter 15|11 pages

Indeterminacy

On the Logic of the Image

chapter 16|24 pages

Between Imitation and Simulation

Towards an Aesthetics of Fuzzy Images

chapter 18|13 pages

Scribbling, Scraping off, Painting over

Effacing Pictures in Literary Texts

chapter 19|12 pages

Kierkegaard's Shadow Figures

part IV|62 pages

Constructions of the Visual

chapter IV|2 pages

Introduction to Part V

chapter 20|15 pages

The Unspeakable and the Unimaginable

Word and Image in a Time of Terror 1

chapter 21|9 pages

Face and Mass

Towards an Aesthetic of the Cross-Cut in Film 1

chapter 22|16 pages

Synaesthesia

Physiological Diagnosis, Practice of Perception, Art Program: A Semiotic Re-analysis