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 | | Iconology: Image, Text, Ideology by W. J. T. Mitchell ISBN-10: 9780226532295 ISBN-10: 0-226-53229-1 ISBN-13: 9780226532295 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-53229-5 Paperback 1987-07-15 University Of Chicago Press Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description "[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 | ||
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Insightful, thoughtful, lucid. A great place to start. Mitchell brings a kind of consensus approach within literary criticism to bear on the criticism of visual imagery; the criticism of an image as if it were a text. A lot of this has been done, without any discipline or care for consistency or clarity, by an army of post-structuralist French critics, with uneven results. Not that Agamben, Derrida and so on aren't quite worth reading, but I'd guess that reading them would be a lot more rewarding for someone who had read this little book first. | ||
Many words for a few ideas. The introduction says "This is a book about the things people say about images". As a person who buys a lot of instructional books which I hope are insightful and succinct I found this overwritten. Someone liking miles of wordy literary type criticism might find it appealing. | ||