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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. A few pencil annotations which could be erased. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> This book is divided into three parts the first dealing with images the sec- ond with objects and the third with media. The logic of this structure is as follows. By “image” I mean any likeness figure motif or form that appears in some medium or other. By “object” I mean the material support in or on which an image appears or the material thing that an image refers to or brings into view. I also want of course to evoke here the concepts of ob- jecthood and objectivity the notion of something that is set over against a subject. By “medium” I mean the set of material practices that brings an im- age together with an object to produce a picture. The book as a whole then is about pictures understood as complex assemblages of virtual material and symbolic elements. In the narrowest sense a picture is simply one of those familiar objects that we see hanging on walls pasted into photo al- bums or ornamenting the pages of illustrated books. In a more extended sense however pictures arise in all other media-in the assemblage of fleet- ing evanescent shadows and material supports that constitute the cinema as a “picture show”; in the stationing of a piece of sculpture on a specific site; in a caricature or stereotype realized in a pattern of human behavior; in “pictures in the mind” the imagination or memory of an embodied. (LL)