Picture Theory Essays on Verbal and Visual Representation

Name: Picture Theory Essays on Verbal and Visual Representation
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ISBN: 9780226532318

ISBN-10: 0226532313

ISBN-13: 9780226532318

Edition: 1994

Authors: W. J. T. Mitchell

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What precisely, W. J. T. Mitchell asks, are pictures (and theories of pictures) doing now, in the late twentieth century, when the power of the visual is said to be greater than ever before, and the "pictorial turn" supplants the "linguistic turn" in the study of culture? This book by one of America's leading theorists of visual representation offers a rich account of the interplay between the visible and the readable across culture, from literature to visual art to the mass media.

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 6/30/1994
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 462
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.980
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.



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Pictorial Turn



Metapictures



Beyond Comparison: Picture, Text, and Method



Visible Language: Blake's Art of Writing



Ekphrasis and the Other6: Narrative, Memory, and Slavery



Ut Pictura Theoria: Abstract Painting and Language



Word, Image, and Object: Wall Labels for Robert Morris



The Photographic Essay: Four Case Studies



Illusion: Looking at Animals Looking



Realism, Irrealism, and Ideology: After Nelson Goodman



The Violence of Public Art: Do the Right Thing



From CNN to JFK


Conclusion: Some Pictures of Representation


Index