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Readings
I. Image and Iconoclasm
W J T Mitchell, “What is an Image?” from Iconology (photocopy or pdf)
Plato Republic Books 3, 6, 7, and 10 (photocopy or pdf)
Plato, Sophist excerpts (photocopy or pdf)
Stanley Rosen Plato’s Sophist, ch. 7, 10 (photocopy or pdf)
II. The Age of the World as Picture
L-B Alberti, On Painting
Heidegger “The Age of the World View” (photocopy or pdf)
Norman Bryson, Vision and Painting
III. Image and Text
Lessing, Laocoön
Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida
W.J.T. Mitchell, “Space and Time” from Iconology
IV. Image, Ideology, and Spectacle
W J T Mitchell, “Image and Ideology” from Iconology (photocopy or pdf)
Walter Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” (photocopy or pdf)
Jean-Louis Baudry, “The Apparatus” (photocopy or pdf)
Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle
Recommended: Guy Debord, Comments on the Society of the Spectacle