Part One: Historical and Philosophical Precedents

Genesis to Locke

Man Created in God's Image

Graven Images Genesis 2: 26 and 27

Abraham and the Idol Shop of his Father Terah Exodus 20: 4-6

The Simile of the Cave Midrash Rabbah

Art and Illusion Plato

The Origins of Imitation Plato

Thinking with Images Aristotle

Iconodules and Iconoclasts in Byzantium Aristotle

John of Damascus

Horos at Nicaea, 787 A.D.

Horos at Niera, 754 A.D.

Image and Idolatry

Evil Demon Thomas Hobbes

Images and the Brain René Descartes

Of Ideas René Descartes

Kant to Freud John Locke

Representation and Imagination

Space and Time Immanuel Kant

Camera Obscura Gotthold Lessing

The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret Thereof Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

How the Real World at Last Became a Myth Karl Marx

On Truth and Lies in a Non-Moral Sense Friedrich Nietzsche

Images, Bodies and Consciousness Friedrich Nietzsche

The Dream-Work Henri Bergson

Part Two: Theories of Images Sigmund Freud

Ideology Critique

Television: Multilayered Structure

Society of the Spectacle Theodor Adorno

The Precession of Simulacra Guy Debord

Image as Commodity Jean Baudrillard

'Race' and Nation Fredric Jameson

Never Just Pictures Paul Gilroy

Art History Susan Bordo

Studies in Iconology

Invention and Discovery Erwin Panofsky

Interpretation without Representation, or, The Viewing of Las Meninas Ernst Gombrich

Towards a Visual Critical Theory Svetlana Alpers

Semiotics Susan Buck-Morss

Nature of the Linguistic Sign

The Sign: Icon, Index, and Symbol Ferdinand de Saussure

The Third Meaning Charles Sanders Peirce

From Sub- to Suprasemiotic: The Sign as Event Roland Barthes

The Semiotic Landscape Mieke Bal

Phenomenology Gunter Kress and Theo van Leeuwen

Thing and Work

Eye and Mind Martin Heidegger

Description Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Imagination Jean-Paul Sartre

Scientific Visualism Mikel Dufrenne

Psychoanalysis Don Ihde

The Gaze / Anamorphosis

The All-Perceiving Subject Jacques Lacan

Woman as Image (Man as Bearer of the Look) Christian Metz

Cindy Sherman's Untitled Film Stills Laura Mulvey

Two Kinds of Attention Joan Copjec

Part Three: Image Culture Anton Ehrenzweig

Images and Words

The Roots of Poetry

Icon and Image Ernest Fenollosa

This is Not a Pipe Paul Ricoeur

The Despotic Eye and its Shadow: Media Image in the Age of Literacy Michel Foucault

Images, Audiences, and Readings Robert Romanyshyn

Image as Thought Kevin DeLuca

Pictures and Facts

Body Images Ludwig Wittgenstein

Involuntary Memory Antonio Damasio

The Philosophical Imaginary Marcel Proust

Thought and Cinema: The Time-Image Michèle Le Doeuff

The Dialectical Image Gilles Deleuze

Ways of Remembering Walter Benjamin

Fabrication John Berger

Taking a Line for a Walk

On Montage and the Filmic Fourth Dimension Paul Klee

Electronic Tools Sergei Eisenstein

Camera Lucida William J. Mitchell

Images Scatter into Data, Data Gather into Images David Hockney

Visual Culture Peter Galison

The Medium is the Message

The Image of the City Marshal McLuhan

The Image-World Kevin Lynch

The Philosopher as Andy Warhol Susan Sontag

Symbol, Idol and Murti: Hindu God-images and the Politics of Mediation Arthur Danto

The United Colors of Diversity Gregory Price Grieve

The Unbearable Lightness Of Sight Celia Lury

Vision and Visuality Meiling Cheng

Modernising Vision

The Im/Pulse to See Jonathan Crary

Lighting for Whiteness Rosalind Krauss

Cultural Relativism and the Visual Turn Richard Dyer

The Modularity of Vision Martin Jay

Image Studies Semir Zeki

The Family of Images

The Domain of Images W.J.T. Mitchell

A Constructivist Manifesto James Elkins

Images, Not Signs Barbara Stafford

What is Iconoclash? Or is there a World Beyond the Image Wars? Régis Debray