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This book uncovers an underlying dispute over the role images play in contemporary society and, consequently, over their values and purposes. Two decades after

W.J.T. Mitchell – one of the founders of visual studies – has been at the forefront of many disciplines such as iconology, art history and media studies. Hi

This forward-thinking collection brings together over sixty essays that invoke images to summon, interpret, and argue with visual studies and its neighboring fi

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

The theory and practice of imitation has long been central to the construction of art and yet imitation is still frequently confused with copying. Theorizing Im