Open AccessThe Power of Images, Reconsidered
Author(s) -
Erin L. Thompson
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
concinnitas
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1981-9897
pISSN - 1415-2681
DOI - 10.12957/concinnitas.2021.63192
Subject(s) - iconoclasm , censorship , irrational number , power (physics) , epistemology , history , art history , law , philosophy , political science , mathematics , physics , geometry , quantum mechanics
This essay reappraises David Freedberg’s foundational The Power of Images: Studies in the History and Theory of Response (University of Chicago Press, 1989), in light both of his more recent publications on iconoclasm, censorship, and the role of irrational and emotional responses to images in general and of the current global wave of iconoclastic actions.Keywords: neuroaesthetics; emotion; censorship; universality