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Iconology: Image, Text, Ideology

by W. J. Thomas Mitchell

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Publisher Comments:

"[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

Synopsis:

Image, text and ideology.
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Iconology

Part One: The Idea of Imagery

1. What Is an Image?

Part Two: Image versus Text Figures of the Differences

2. Pictures and Paragraphs: Nelson Goodman and the Grammar of Differences

3. Nature and Convention: Gombrich's Illusions

4. Space and Time: Lessing's Laocoon and the Politics of Genre

5. Eye and Ear: Edmund Burke and the Politics of Sensibility

Part Three: Image and Ideology

6. The Rhetoric of Iconoclasm: Marxism, Ideology, and Fetishism

Bibliography

Index


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Product Details

ISBN:
9780226532295
Subtitle:
Image, Text, Ideology
Author:
Mitchell, W. J. Thomas
Author:
Mitchell, W. J. T.
Publisher:
University of Chicago Press
Subject:
General
Subject:
Semiotics & Theory
Subject:
Idols and images
Subject:
General Philosophy
Subject:
Subjects & Themes - General
Edition Description:
1
Publication Date:
July 1987
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
Professional and scholarly
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
236
Dimensions:
9.06x6.13x.57 in. .75 lbs.
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