Image Science: Iconology, Visual Culture, and Media Aesthetics

by W. J. T. Mitchell and W.J. Thomas Mitchell

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Almost thirty years ago, W. J. T. Mitchell's Iconology helped launch the interdisciplinary study of visual media, now a central feature of the humanities. Along with his subsequent Picture Theory and What Do Pictures Want?, Mitchell's now-classic work introduced such ideas as the pictorial turn, the image/picture distinction, the metapicture, and the biopicture. These key concepts imply an approach to images as true objects of...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:022656584X

ISBN13:9780226565842

Release Date:January 2018

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:272 Pages

Weight:0.75 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 5.9" x 8.7"

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Art Arts, Music & Photography Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections

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