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- catalog abstract "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.".
- catalog contributor b5731132.
- catalog created "1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1994.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "pt. 1. Picture theory. The pictorial turn -- Metapictures -- Beyond comparison: picture, text, and method -- pt. 2. Textual pictures. Visible language : Blake's art of writing -- Ekphrasis and the other -- Narrative, memory, and slavery -- pt. 3. Pictorial texts. Ut pictura theoria : abstract painting and language -- Word, image, and object: wall labels for Robert Morris -- The photographic essay : four case studies -- pt. 4. Pictures and power. Illusion : looking at animals looking -- Realism, irrealism, and ideology : after Nelson Goodman -- pt. 5. Pictures and the public sphere. The violence of public art : do the right thing -- From CNN to JFK -- Some pictures of representation.".
- catalog extent "xv, 445 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0226532313 (cloth) :".
- catalog identifier "0226532321 (pbk.)".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Chicago : University of Chicago Press,".
- catalog subject "700/.1 20".
- catalog subject "Arts, Modern.".
- catalog subject "NX170 .M58 1994".
- catalog subject "NX170 .M58 1994X".
- catalog subject "Postmodernism.".
- catalog subject "Ut pictura poesis (Aesthetics)".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. 1. Picture theory. The pictorial turn -- Metapictures -- Beyond comparison: picture, text, and method -- pt. 2. Textual pictures. Visible language : Blake's art of writing -- Ekphrasis and the other -- Narrative, memory, and slavery -- pt. 3. Pictorial texts. Ut pictura theoria : abstract painting and language -- Word, image, and object: wall labels for Robert Morris -- The photographic essay : four case studies -- pt. 4. Pictures and power. Illusion : looking at animals looking -- Realism, irrealism, and ideology : after Nelson Goodman -- pt. 5. Pictures and the public sphere. The violence of public art : do the right thing -- From CNN to JFK -- Some pictures of representation.".
- catalog title "Picture theory : essays on verbal and visual representation / W.J.T. Mitchell.".
- catalog type "Essays. lcgft".
- catalog type "text".