What Is an Image?

This is the most wide-ranging book on the concept of the image, the topics include concepts such as image and picture in the West and outside it, the reception and rejection of semiotics, the relationship between images and religious meanings, and the study of non-art images in medicine, science, and technology. The book unpacks some of the most challenging questons about the reception and representation of art, and delivers a cutting-edge discussion of current research, providing a clear overview of the issues at stake in reconceptualizing the image.