Iconology Image, Text, Ideology

Name: Iconology Image, Text, Ideology
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ISBN: 9780226532295

ISBN-10: 0226532291

ISBN-13: 9780226532295

Edition: 1986

Authors: W. J. T. Mitchell

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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

Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 1986
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 7/15/1987
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 236
Size: 0.60" wide x 0.91" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

W. J. T. Mitchell is the Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature, the Department of Art History, and the College at the University of Chicago. He is also coeditor of the journal Critical Inquiry.



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Iconology



The Idea of Imagery



What Is an Image?



Image versus Text Figures of the Differences



Pictures and Paragraphs: Nelson Goodman and the Grammar of Differences



Nature and Convention: Gombrich's Illusions



Space and Time: Lessing'sLaocoonand the Politics of Genre



Eye and Ear: Edmund Burke and the Politics of Sensibility



Image and Ideology



The Rhetoric of Iconoclasm: Marxism, Ideology, and Fetishism


Bibliography


Index