The fundamental thesis of the book is that painting in the age of contemporary art as realized iconoclasm no longer has its own world. In a historical-philosophical and problem analysis, the author shows how the idea of digital image developed through the concepts of mimesis, representation and information-communication. With the appearance of the historical avant-garde at the beginning of the 20th century, the performativity of the body enters the center of the problem of pictoriality of the world. Since then, the power of images is no longer a function of language or text. Instead, an iconic turn is at work. The book presents a critical consideration of philosophical ideas about art from Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche to Lyotard, Mitchell, Mersch and Sloterdijk. The picture without a world signifies the age of immersion in the technical environment of art and thus the necessity of finding a different aesthetic for the age of techno-science.