Picture Theory Essays on Verbal and Visual Representation

Name: Picture Theory Essays on Verbal and Visual Representation
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ISBN: 9780226532325

ISBN-10: 0226532321

ISBN-13: 9780226532325

Edition: 2nd 1994

Authors: W. J. T. Mitchell

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Book details

List price: $37.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 9/1/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 462
Size: 5.87" wide x 9.02" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.958
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