Gottfried Boehm's (Braunau, 1942) career has been characterized by a constant and tireless exploration of the iconic power with which images have operated throughout human history. This book comprises fifteen essays that offer a rich array of reflections on images from diverse fields of knowledge. Under the title "How Do Images Generate Meaning?", he inquires into what images show us, not what they tell us, investigating the process by which images generate meaning when they transcend what can be verbally expressed. Drawing on his background in hermeneutics and phenomenology, the author explores the meaning that images generate in their existence and action in the world: how this meaning is constituted, what characteristics it presents, what its conditions are, and how it operates in relation to the creative process and human perception. It also questions whether it is possible to ext...read more







