Download or read book Iconology written by W. J. T. Mitchell and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-05-03 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[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