Iconology: Image, Text, Ideology - Softcover

Mitchell, W. J. T.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226532291 ISBN 13: 9780226532295

Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 1987

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"[Mitchell] undertakes to explore the nature of images by comparing them with words, or, more precisely, by looking at them from the viewpoint of verbal language. . . . The most lucid exposition of the subject I have ever read."—Rudolf Arnheim, Times Literary Supplement

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W. J. T. Mitchell is the Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor of English and Art History at the University of Chicago and editor of Critical Inquiry.

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This is a book about the things people say about images. It is not primarily concerned with specific pictures and the things people say about them, but rather with the way we talk about the idea of imagery, and all its related notions of picturing, imagining, perceiving, likening, and imitating. It is a book about images, therefore, that has no illustrations except for a few schematic diagrams, a book about vision written as if by a blind author for a blind reader. If it contains any insight into real, material pictures, it is the sort that might come to a blind listener, overhearing the conversation the sighted speakers talking about images. My hypothesis is that such a listener might see patterns in these conversations that would be invisible to the sighted participant.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Chicago Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1987
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0226532291
• ISBN 13: 9780226532295
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 236
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