Theorizing Images is, in many places, an impressive synthesis of the highly interdisciplinary landscape of visual studies. Scholars needing a foundation in visual culture would benefit from this text, as would those needing to give voice to the oftenun named or poorly explored relationships among objects, time, language, and meaning-making. The text is hampered, in places, by its Eurocentric focus and the language and cultural barriers that are occasionally presented but not resolved, yet all readers will likely find a good portion of the text evocative and resonant, even if not all the chapters possess the same intellectual heft, narrative elegance, or theoretical sophistication.