This volume presents the work of the Collegium for the Advanced Study of the Picture Act and
Embodiment at the London Warburg Institute. It gathers studies on various topics: on the
history and anthropology of the picture act (Bildakt) on theoretical and methodological
aspects of picture act theory on the role of image perception in the philosophy of the
extended mind on phenomena related to haptic experience of the image in the Middle Ages and
early modern period on somatic communication processes on semiotic aspects of iconological
thinking and on the living dynamics of internal and external movement in imagery and language.
