Good Looking: Essays on the Virtue of Images Tapa blanda - 1998

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MIT Press (MA), 1998. Paperback. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

MIT Press (MA), 1998. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

The MIT Press, 1997. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,700grams, ISBN:9780262692106

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Mit Pr, 1998-02-06. paperback. Very Good. 6x1x8. Very good paperback copy (NOT ex-library). Spine is uncreased, binding tight and sturdy; text also very good. Exterior looks great, shelfwear is very minor. A solid copy. Ships same or next business day from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1997. Second printing. Paperback. Near fine. Printed paper wraps, octavo, illustrated in b&w. Book has mild wear to spine ends and corners, binding tight, text clean and unmarked.

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… Leer más

Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 1996. Softcover. VG. Color illus. wraps; 259 pp.; 100 bw figures. Eleven essays, divided into three categories: Enlightenment/Re-Enlightenment, Practicing Vision, and Aesthetical Ethics; Includes "Difficult Content, or the Pleasures of Viewing Pain," "Desperately Seeking Connections: Linking the Internet o Eighteenth-Century Laboratory Life," "Display and the Rhetoric of Corruption," and more.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.