Jorella Andrews’ Showing Off! A Philosophy of Image is a lively, idiosyncratic account of the experiential power images can have in revealing truths. It possesses that rare quality in books on this subject—accessibility—for it is readable and gives a strong sense that the author is energetically committed to her chosen sources and to art practitioners. Those sources range across a broad territory of narrative forms bound together by authority of their visual orientation. Film, photography, art and performance provide the ground for concentrated discussion of race, religion, gender and the politics of the image, where debate intersects with alienation and difference. The contested nature of these perspectives is captured in the language of her chapter headings: image wars; dissimulation and truth; productive violence; war games; sacred conversations; and so on. All ultimately lead us to an ethical philosophy of image. Andrews writes:

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炫耀！图像哲学

乔拉拉·安德鲁斯（Jorella Andrews）炫耀！图像哲学是对图像揭示真相的经验力量的生动活泼，特质的描述。它具有有关此主题的书籍中罕见的质量-可访问性-因为它可读性强，并强烈地表明作者对自己选择的来源和艺术从业者充满热情。这些资料涵盖了广阔的叙事形式领域，这些叙事形式受到视觉取向权威的约束。电影，摄影，艺术和表演为种族，宗教，性别和图像政治的集中讨论奠定了基础，在辩论中，辩论与疏离和差异相交。这些观点的争议性质在她的章节标题的语言中得到了体现：图像战争；sim视与真实；生产性暴力；战争游戏; 神圣的对话；等等。最终，所有这些都将我们引向了图像的道德哲学。安德鲁斯写道：