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More than One Picture: An Art History of the Hyperimage

More than One Picture: An Art History of the Hyperimage

$55.00 at The Getty Museum.

Felix Thürlemann In exhibitions, illustrated art books, and classrooms, artworks or their photographic reproductions are arranged as calculated ensembles that have their own importance. In this volume, Felix Thürlemann develops a theory of this type of image use, arguing that with each new gathering of images, an art object is reinterpreted. These hyperimages have played a major role in the history of art since the seventeenth century, and the main actors of the art world are all hyperimage creators. In…