On Images, Visual Culture, Memory and the Play Without a Script

by Matthias Smalbrugge and Miles Hollingworth

Matthias Smalbrugge compares modern images to plays without a script: while they appear to refer to a deeper identity or reality, it is ultimately the image itself that truly matters. He argues that our modern society of images is the product of a destructive tendency in the Christian notion of the image in general, and Augustine of Hippo's in particular. This insight enables him to decode our current 'scripts' of image.

As we live in an...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501358847
• ISBN13: 9781501358845
• Release Date: February 2022
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 184 Pages