What Is an Image? Joan Mellen nowhere has the violence of

nowhere has the violence of Mexico's drug war been more intense than directly across the border from East Texas

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What Is an Image? Joan Mellen nowhere has the violence ofBrings together historians, philosophers, critics, postcolonial theorists, and curators to ask how images, pictures, and paintings are conceptualized. Issues discussed include concepts such as image and picture in and outside the West; semiotics; whether images are products of discourse; religious meanings; and the ethics of viewing.