The World of the Image Book

Preface     ix
The Act of Seeing     1
Seeing and Awareness     4
The Vision Thing: Mainly in the Brain     10
When Babies Become Aware of Themselves     22
Seeing     26
How to Look at Nothing     34
Mirroring Ourselves     40
Equation for Beauty Emerges in Studies     42
Never Just Pictures     47
The Body Jigsaw: Borrowing Body Decoration from Other Cultures     54
Visual History and African-American Families of the Nineteenth Century     59
New Jersey Trying A New Way For Witnesses to Pick Suspects     65
The Visual Surround     72
The Perfect Icon for an Imperfect Postliterate World     75
Eden by Wire: Webcameras and the Telepresent Landscape     79
Media Images and Violence     92   Thomas Hine   Notable Quotables: Why Images Become Icons     100
Speaking Brand     107
Images and Their Uses     116
Behold the Stone Age     119
Silent Music and Invisible Art     125
Dreams on the Couch     132
The Inner Savant     138
In the River of Consciousness     146
Pictures thatProd     158
Once Again, Patriotic Themes Ring True as Art     160
Dire Image: The Art of Persuasion     164
Cartoon Wars     170
Reality's Flight     174
What Is Art?     178
The Image as Reality     183
The Digital Media Landscape     185
Living with the Fake and Learning to Like It     196
Colorizing the Cosmos     203
Pygmalion's Power     206
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction     211
Credits     217