Iconology : image, text, ideology / W.J.T. Mitchell.
By: Mitchell, W. J. T. (William John Thomas)
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Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 704.946 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00059032 |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"[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
Includes index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Iconology
- Part 1 The Idea of Imagery
- 1 What Is an Image?
- Part 2 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'sLaocoonand the Politics of Genre
- 5 Eye and Ear: Edmund Burke and the Politics of Sensibility
- Part 3 Image and Ideology
- 6 The Rhetoric of Iconoclasm: Marxism, Ideology, and Fetishism
- Bibliography
- Index