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5 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
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...
Published on February 21, 2009 by T. Porges
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8 of 70 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
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.
Published on January 27, 2003 by Shock Writer
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5 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Insightful, thoughtful, lucid. A great place to start.,
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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.
8 of 70 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Many words for a few ideas.,
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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.
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Iconology: Image, Text, Ideology by W. J. Thomas Mitchell (Paperback - July 15, 1987)
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