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The Affective and Hermeneutic Functions of the Mindful Picture examines paintings, drawings, and prints that use various representational contrivances to call attention to their status as pictorial images, in ways calculated both to stir the emotions and to incite interpretation. The books consists of five sections: "Materials, Artifice, and Agencies of the Hand" examines images in which the saliency of medium and manufacture mediate the conveyance of affect and meaning; "Thinking and Picturing" focuses on images that construe picturing as a mode of thought; "Self-Reflexive Image-making" considers drawings, prints, paintings, and sculpture in which affect and meaning hinge on a reference to their makers; "Spectators at the Threshold" investigates images that situate the locus of meaning at the viewer's point of entry into the picture; and "Emblematic Intertexts" explicates images whose affective meaning results from their embedment within emblematic intertexts.
Contributors include Christopher D.M. Atkins, Tamar Cholcman, James Clifton, William E. Engel, Reindert Falkenburg, Robert Fucci,
Aneta Georgievska-Shine, Hanneke Grootenboer, Yannis Hadjinicolaou, Valérie Hayaert, Matt Kavaler, Lizzie Marx, Simon McKeown,
Walter S. Melion, Jun P. Nakamura, Thor-Oona Pignarre-Altermatt, Stephanie Porras, Itay Sapir, Joanna Skubisz, Angela Vanhaelen, Michel Weemans, Elliott D. Wise, Joanna Woodall, Michael Zell, and Steffen Zierholz.
