Iconology

Image, Text, Ideology

Mitchell W. J. T.

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Iconology

Part One: The Idea of Imagery
1. What Is an Image?

Part Two: Image versus Text Figures of the Differences
2. Pictures and Paragraphs: Nelson Goodman and the Grammar of Differences
3. Nature and Convention: Gombrich's Illusions
4. Space and Time: Lessing's Laocoon and the Politics of Genre
5. Eye and Ear: Edmund Burke and the Politics of Sensibility

Part Three: Image and Ideology
6. The Rhetoric of Iconoclasm: Marxism, Ideology, and Fetishism

Bibliography
Index

About the Author

W. J. T. Mitchell is the Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature, the Department of Art History, and the College at the University of Chicago. He is the author, most recently, of "Cloning Terror: The War of Images, 9/11 to the Present", published by the University of Chicago Press. He is also co-editor of the journal "Critical Inquiry".

Reviews

"[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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