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Iconology: Image, Text, Ideology (Paperback)

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"[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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Paperback: 236 pages
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press (July 15, 1987)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0226532291
ISBN-13: 978-0226532295
Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.6 inches
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5.0 out of 5 stars Insightful, thoughtful, lucid. A great place to start., February 21, 2009

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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.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Many words for a few ideas., January 27, 2003

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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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