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Picture theory : essays on verbal and visual representation / W.J.T. Mitchell.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1995Copyright date: ©1994Description: xv, 445 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0226532321
  • 9780226532325
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 700.1 20
LOC classification:
  • NX170 .M58 1995
Contents:
List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Pictorial Turn -- 2. Metapictures -- 3. Beyond Comparison: Picture, Text, and Method -- 4. Visible Language: Blake's Art of Writing -- 5. Ekphrasis and the Other -- 6. Narrative, Memory, and Slavery -- 7. Ut Pictura Theoria: Abstract Painting and Language -- 8. Word, Image, and Object: Wall Labels for Robert Morris -- 9. The Photographic Essay: Four Case Studies -- 10. Illusion: Looking at Animals Looking -- 11. Realism, Irrealism, and Ideology: After Nelson Goodman -- 12. The Violence of Public Art: Do the Right Thing -- 13. From CNN to JFK -- Conclusion: Some Pictures of Representation -- Index.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Pictorial Turn -- 2. Metapictures -- 3. Beyond Comparison: Picture, Text, and Method -- 4. Visible Language: Blake's Art of Writing -- 5. Ekphrasis and the Other -- 6. Narrative, Memory, and Slavery -- 7. Ut Pictura Theoria: Abstract Painting and Language -- 8. Word, Image, and Object: Wall Labels for Robert Morris -- 9. The Photographic Essay: Four Case Studies -- 10. Illusion: Looking at Animals Looking -- 11. Realism, Irrealism, and Ideology: After Nelson Goodman -- 12. The Violence of Public Art: Do the Right Thing -- 13. From CNN to JFK -- Conclusion: Some Pictures of Representation -- Index.

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