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Iconology : image, text, ideology / W.J.T. Mitchell.

By: Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 1987Copyright date: ©1986Edition: Paperback editionDescription: x, 226 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0226532291
  • 9780226532295
Subject(s):
Contents:
Pt. 1. The idea of imagery. What is an image? -- pt. 2. Image versus text : figures of the difference. Pictures and paragraphs : Nelson Goodman and the grammar of difference -- Nature and convention : Gombrich's illusions -- Space and time : Lessing's Laocoon and the politics of genre -- Eye and ear : Edmund Burke and the politics of sensibility -- pt. 3. Image and ideology : the rhetoric of iconoclasm : Marxism, ideology and fetishism.
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book CGLAS Library Blue 701 MIT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 10118

Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-219) and index.

Pt. 1. The idea of imagery. What is an image? -- pt. 2. Image versus text : figures of the difference. Pictures and paragraphs : Nelson Goodman and the grammar of difference -- Nature and convention : Gombrich's illusions -- Space and time : Lessing's Laocoon and the politics of genre -- Eye and ear : Edmund Burke and the politics of sensibility -- pt. 3. Image and ideology : the rhetoric of iconoclasm : Marxism, ideology and fetishism.