Image Science: Iconology, Visual Culture, and Media Aesthetics

by W. J. T. Mitchell and W.J. Thomas Mitchell

Book Overview

Almost thirty years ago, W. J. T. Mitchell's Iconology helped launch the interdisciplinary study of visual media, now a central feature of the humanities. Along with his subsequent Picture Theory and What Do Pictures Want?, Mitchell's now-classic work introduced such ideas as the pictorial turn, the image/picture distinction, the metapicture, and the biopicture. These key concepts imply an approach to images as true objects of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022656584X
• ISBN13: 9780226565842
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.7"