Images at Work: The Material Culture of Enchantment

by David Morgan and David O. Morgan

Images can be studied in many ways--as symbols, displays of artistic genius, adjuncts to texts, or naturally occurring phenomena like reflections and dreams. Each of these approaches is justified by the nature of the image in question as well as the way viewers engage with it. But images are often something more when they perform in ways that exhibit a capacity to act independent of human will. Images come alive--they move us to action, calm us, reveal...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190272112
• ISBN13: 9780190272111
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.6" x 9.3"