W.J.T. Mitchell's Image Theory Living Pictures [Hardcover]

W.J.T. Mitchell  one of the founders of visual studies  has been at the forefront of many disciplines such as iconology, art history and media studies. His concept of the pictorial turn is known worldwide for having set new philosophical paradigms in dealing with our vernacular visual world. This book will help both students and seasoned scholars to understand key terms in visual studies  pictorial turn, metapictures, literary iconology, image/text, biopictures or living pictures, among many others  while systematically presenting the work of Mitchell as one of the discipline's founders and most prominent figures. As a special feature, the book includes three comprehensive, authoritative and theoretically relevant interviews with Mitchell that focus on different stages of development of visual studies and critical iconology.

Introduction

1. The Changing Patterns of Iconology: Seven Questions to Mitchell from the 20th Century

Timothy Erwin

2. What is an Image? W.J.T. Mitchell's Picturing Theory

Francesco Gori

3. Post-Structuralist Iconology: Genealogical and Historical Concerns of Mitchell's Image Science

4. Iconology as Cultural Symptomatology: Dinosaurs, Clones and the Golden Calf in Mitchell's Image Theory

5. Words and Pictures in the Age of the Image: An Interview with W.J.T. Mitchell

6. From Image/Text to Biopictures: Key Concepts in W.J.T. Mitchell's Image Theory

7. The Birth of the Discipline: W.J.T. Mitchell and the Chicago School of Visual Studies