Echo Objects: The Cognitive Work of Images

Echo Objects is a stunningly broad exploration of how complex images, or patterns that compress space and time, make visible the invisible ordering of human consciousness. Stafford demonstrates, for example, how the compound formats of emblems, symbols, collage, and electronic media reveal the brain’s grappling to construct mental objects that are redoubled by prior associations. In contrast, she shows that findings in evolutionary biology and the neurosciences are providing profound opportunities for understanding aesthetic conundrums such as the human urge to imitate and the role of narrative and non-narrative representation.

Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Date Published: 2007 (1st Ed.)
Book Condition: Near fine softcover with minor edge wear and minor marks on bottom edge from shelving. Otherwise, an unmarked copy internally.