Iconology

Image, Text, Ideology

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by W. J. T. Mitchell

University of Chicago Press

Due/Published November 1990, 226 pages, paper

ISBN 0226532291

"[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