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Why do we have such extraordinarily powerful responses toward the images and pictures we see in everyday life? Why do we behave as if pictures were alive, posse
What Do Pictures Want?
Language: en
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Authors: W. J. T. Mitchell
Categories: Art
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The author argues that we need to reckon with images not merely as inert objects that convey meaning but as animated beings with desires, needs, appetites, and
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Iconology
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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 languag
Picture Theory
Language: en
Pages: 466
Authors: W. J. T. Mitchell
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995-09 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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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 t