Picture Theory

Picture Theory
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 466
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ISBN-10 : 0226532321
ISBN-13 : 9780226532325
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Book Synopsis Picture Theory by : W. J. T. Mitchell

Download or read book Picture Theory written by W. J. T. Mitchell and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1995-09 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 to be greater than ever before, and the "pictorial turn" supplants the "linguistic turn" in the study of culture? This book by one of America's leading theorists of visual representation offers a rich account of the interplay between the visible and the readable across culture, from literature to visual art to the mass media.


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