{"title":"W J T Mitchell","description":"\u003cp\u003eDelve into the critical and visual studies of W.J.T. Mitchell, a key voice in exploring the relationships between images, texts, and culture. A must-read for academics and thinkers alike.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"iconology-book-w-j-t-mitchell-9780226532295","title":"Iconology","description":"This is a book about the things people say about images. It is not primarily concerned with specific pictures and the things people say about them, but rather with the way we talk about the idea of imagery, and all its related notions of picturing, imagining, perceiving, likening, and imitating. It is a book about images, therefore, that has no illustrations except for a few schematic diagrams, a book about vision written as if by a blind author for a blind reader. If it contains any insight into real, material pictures, it is the sort that might come to a blind listener, overhearing the conversation the sighted speakers talking about images. My hypothesis is that such a listener might see patterns in these conversations that would be invisible to the sighted participant.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49514958782737,"sku":"CIN0226532291G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49619240517905,"sku":"GOR002433582","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49730248311057,"sku":"NGR9780226532295","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51000289952017,"sku":"NIN9780226532295","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51422820499729,"sku":"CIN0226532291VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52098563997969,"sku":"GOR003623990","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0226532291.jpg?v=1751445803"},{"product_id":"picture-theory-book-w-j-t-mitchell-9780226532325","title":"Picture Theory","description":"What precisely, W. J. T. Mitchell asks, are pictures (and theories of pictures) doing now, in the late twentieth century, when the power of the visual is said to be greater than ever before, and the pictorial turn supplants the linguistic turn in the study of culture? This book by one of America's leading theorists of visual representation offers a rich account of the interplay between the visible and the readable across culture, from literature to visual art to the mass media.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49521209114897,"sku":"GOR004857163","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49729194131729,"sku":"NGR9780226532325","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50138852786449,"sku":"CIN0226532321VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51105998209297,"sku":"GOR009362084","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51484217770257,"sku":"GOR007014625","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52103225704721,"sku":"CIN0226532321G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52734646976785,"sku":"NIN9780226532325","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ LIKE_NEW \/ SBYB","offer_id":52899516285201,"sku":"CIN0226532321LN","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0226532321.jpg?v=1751444378"},{"product_id":"antony-gormley-book-w-j-t-mitchell-9781853322587","title":"Antony Gormley","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49525972435217,"sku":"GOR002954785","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50249489350929,"sku":"GOR011326141","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52153840206097,"sku":"GOR014497500","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53243836301585,"sku":"GOR006394606","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/185332258X.jpg?v=1750768087"},{"product_id":"mental-traveler-book-w-j-t-mitchell-9780226695938","title":"Mental Traveler","description":"How does a parent make sense of a child's severe mental illness? How does a father meet the daily challenges of caring for his gifted but delusional son, while seeking to overcome the stigma of madness and the limits of psychiatry? W. J. T. Mitchell's memoir tells the story--at once representative and unique--of one family's encounter with mental illness, and bears witness to the life of the talented young man who was his son.   Gabriel Mitchell was diagnosed with schizophrenia at the age of twenty-one and died by suicide eighteen years later. He left behind a remarkable archive of creative work and a father determined to honor his son's attempts to conquer his own illness. Before his death, Gabe had been working on a film that would show madness from inside and out, as media stereotype and spectacle, symptom and stigma, malady and minority status, disability and gateway to insight. He was convinced that madness is an extreme form of subjective experience that we all endure at some point in our lives, whether in moments of ecstasy or melancholy or in the enduring trauma of a broken heart. Gabe's declared ambition was to transform schizophrenia from a death sentence to a learning experience, and madness from a curse to a critical perspective.    Through vignettes and memories, by turns difficult, unsettling, and humorous, Mental Traveler shows how Mitchell was drawn into Gabe's quest for enlightenment within madness. Shot through with love and pain, this memoir holds many lessons for anyone struggling to cope with mental illness, and especially for parents and caregivers of those caught in its grasp.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49532719890705,"sku":"GOR011107253","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49599164416273,"sku":"GOR010772200","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/022669593X.jpg?v=1751357014"},{"product_id":"what-do-pictures-want-book-w-j-t-mitchell-9780226532486","title":"What Do Pictures Want?","description":"Why do we have such extraordinarily powerful responses toward the images and pictures we see in everyday life? Why do we behave as if pictures were alive, possessing the power to influence us, to demand things from us, to persuade us, seduce us, or even lead us astray?   According to W. J. T. Mitchell, we need to reckon with images not just as inert objects that convey meaning but as animated beings with desires, needs, appetites, demands, and drives of their own. What Do Pictures Want? explores this idea and highlights Mitchell's innovative and profoundly influential thinking on picture theory and the lives and loves of images. Ranging across the visual arts, literature, and mass media, Mitchell applies characteristically brilliant and wry analyses to Byzantine icons and cyberpunk films, racial stereotypes and public monuments, ancient idols and modern clones, offensive images and found objects, American photography and aboriginal painting. Opening new vistas in iconology and the emergent field of visual culture, he also considers the importance of Dolly the Sheep—who, as a clone, fulfills the ancient dream of creating a living image—and the destruction of the World Trade Center on 9\/11, which, among other things, signifies a new and virulent form of iconoclasm.  What Do Pictures Want? offers an immensely rich and suggestive account of the interplay between the visible and the readable. A work by one of our leading theorists of visual representation, it will be a touchstone for art historians, literary critics, anthropologists, and philosophers alike.     “A treasury of episodes—generally overlooked by art history and visual studies—that turn on images that ‘walk by themselves’ and exert their own power over the living.”—Norman Bryson, Artforum","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49539895525649,"sku":"GOR006669102","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49730229960977,"sku":"NGR9780226532486","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50575091335441,"sku":"GOR012939590","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50962491801873,"sku":"CIN0226532488G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ LIKE_NEW \/ SBYB","offer_id":52879631810833,"sku":"CIN0226532488LN","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0226532488.jpg?v=1751424558"},{"product_id":"image-science-book-w-j-t-mitchell-9780226231334","title":"Image Science","description":"Almost thirty years ago, W. J. T. Mitchell's Iconology helped launch the interdisciplinary study of visual media, now a central feature of the modern humanities. Along with his subsequent Picture Theory and What Do Pictures Want?, Mitchell's now-classic work introduced such ideas as the pictorial turn, the image\/picture distinction, the metapicture, and the biopicture. These key concepts imply an approach to images as true objects of investigation-an \"image science.\"  Continuing with this influential line of thought, Image Science gathers Mitchell's most recent essays on media aesthetics, visual culture, and artistic symbolism. The chapters delve into such topics as the physics and biology of images, digital photography and realism, architecture and new media, and the occupation of space in contemporary popular uprisings. The book looks both backward at the emergence of iconology as a field and forward toward what might be possible if image science can indeed approach pictures the same way that empirical sciences approach natural phenomena. Essential for those involved with any aspect of visual media, Image Science is a brilliant call for a method of studying images that overcomes the \"two-culture split\" between the natural and human sciences.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49600380076305,"sku":"GOR010748633","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/022623133X.jpg?v=1751195621"},{"product_id":"image-science-book-w-j-t-mitchell-9780226565842","title":"Image Science","description":"Image Science gathers Mitchell's most recent essays on media aesthetics, visual culture, and artistic symbolism. The chapters delve into such topics as the physics and biology of images, digital photography and realism, architecture and new media, and the occupation of space in contemporary popular uprisings.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49728408977681,"sku":"NGR9780226565842","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50921824846097,"sku":"CIN022656584XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51715073933585,"sku":"GOR014374801","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/022656584X.jpg?v=1750694071"},{"product_id":"landscape-and-power-book-w-j-t-mitchell-9780226532073","title":"Landscape and Power","description":"The original essays in this volume consider landscapes not merely as visual or textual symbols but as sources of social and personal identities. The opening essay examines the ways concept of landscape functions in the discourse of imperialism.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49756163309841,"sku":"CIN0226532070G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50138853376273,"sku":"CIN0226532070A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50719597035793,"sku":"CIN0226532070VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53368198037777,"sku":"GOR005852934","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53491750797585,"sku":"GOR002119256","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0226532070.jpg?v=1750812664"},{"product_id":"critical-terms-for-media-studies-book-w-j-t-mitchell-9780226532554","title":"Critical Terms for Media Studies","description":"Communications, philosophy, film and video, digital culture: media studies straddles an astounding array of fields and disciplines and produces a vocabulary that is in equal parts rigorous and intuitive. This title defines what this hybrid area aims to do, exploring our language for dealing with the qualities and modes of contemporary media.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49777020338449,"sku":"NGR9780226532554","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50497826291985,"sku":"CIN0226532550G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50506903716113,"sku":"GOR012671541","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50832424665361,"sku":"GOR009280649","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51886547403025,"sku":"CIN0226532550VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":51907271098641,"sku":"CIN0226532550A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53393270440209,"sku":"GOR010928016","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0226532550.jpg?v=1750738124"},{"product_id":"art-and-the-public-sphere-book-w-j-t-mitchell-9780226532110","title":"Art and the Public Sphere","description":"The CliffsNotes study guide on Krakauer's Into the Wild supplements the original literary work, giving you background information about the author, an introduction to the work, a graphical character map, critical commentaries, expanded glossaries, and a comprehensive index, all for you to use as an educational tool that will allow you to better understand the work. This study guide was written with the assumption that you have read Into the Wild. Reading a literary work doesn't mean that you immediately grasp the major themes and devices used by the author; this study guide will help supplement your reading to be sure you get all you can from Krakauer's Into the Wild. CliffsNotes Review tests your comprehension of the original text and reinforces learning with questions and answers, practice projects, and more. For further information on Krakauer's Into the Wild, check out the CliffsNotes Resource Center at www.cliffsnotes.com. IN THIS AUDIOBOK - Learn about the Life and Background of the author - Hear an Introduction to Into the Wild - Explore themes, character development, and recurring images in the Critical Commentaries - Learn new words from the Glossary at the end of the document - Examine in-depth Character Analyses - Acquire an understanding of Into the Wild with Critical Essays - Reinforce what you learn to further your study online at www.cliffsnotes.com","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49809055056145,"sku":"CIN0226532119G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51570183897361,"sku":"CIN0226532119VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51682231812369,"sku":"GOR006089741","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":53390191329553,"sku":"CIN0226532119A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0226532119.jpg?v=1751259462"},{"product_id":"last-dinosaur-book-book-w-j-t-mitchell-9780226532042","title":"The Last Dinosaur Book","description":"This text addresses the question of how dinosaurs moved from natural extinction to pop culture resurrection, exploring the animal's place in our lives and the source of its popular appeal. In tracing the cultural family tree of the dinosaur there is discovered a creature of striking flexibility, linked to dragons and mammoths, skyscrapers and steam engines, cowboys and Indians. Here the dinosaur becomes a cultural symbol whose plurality of meaning and often contradictory nature is emblematic of modern society itself. As a scientific entity, the dinosaur endured a near-eclipse for over a century, but as an image it is enjoying its widest circulation. The text suggests it endures because it is uniquely malleable, a figure of both innovation and obsolescence, massive power and pathetic failure - the totem animal of modernity.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":49936207970577,"sku":"CIN0226532046A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50412516933905,"sku":"CIN0226532046VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50448242835729,"sku":"CIN0226532046G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50717680828689,"sku":"GOR002881123","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0226532046.jpg?v=1751259461"},{"product_id":"against-theory-book-w-j-t-mitchell-9780226532271","title":"Against Theory","description":"\"Against Theory,\" the title essay in this volume, challenges the notion that literary theory has any real work to do, or any results to show. This challenge—issued by Steven Knapp and Walter Benn Michaels in Critical Inquiry (8:4)—strikes some critics as scandalous, others as provocative and productive.   The argument is directed against both sides of the current debates in literary theory, criticizing theoretical \"objectivists\" like E. D. Hirsch, Jr., on the one hand, and proponents of indeterminacy like Paul de Man on the other. The attack is not just on a particular way of doing theory but on the entire project of literary theory. The challenge is not only to a way of thinking and writing but to a way of making a living.   The resulting controversy has drawn so much attention among literary critics that it has been collected in a single volume so that the debate can be followed from start to finish. This collection includes the essay \"Against Theory,\" seven responses to it, and a rejoinder by Knapp and Michaels (originally published in Critical Inquiry 9:4); in addition, there are two new statements plus a final reply by Knapp and Michaels.   The debate chronicled in this volume raises the most fundamental issues in the theory of meaning and the practice of interpretation. Are Knapp and Michaels confronting literary theory with a new \"pragmatic\" form of theory? Or are they (as some of their respondents suggest) arguing for a new form of nihilism? \"If it is a nihilism,\" writes editor W. J. T. Mitchell, \"it is one that demands an answer, not easy polemical dismissal, one that calls for theory to clarify its claims, not to mystify them and the easy assurance of intellectual fashion and institutional authority.\" It is the intention of Against Theory to aid in that clarification.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50096404332817,"sku":"CIN0226532275G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50490667368721,"sku":"GOR009018406","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50840380637457,"sku":"CIN0226532275VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53360935928081,"sku":"GOR009283874","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0226532275.jpg?v=1751259462"},{"product_id":"on-narrative-book-w-j-t-mitchell-9780226532172","title":"On Narrative","description":"The fourteen distinguished contributors to this volume explore ways we tell, understand, and use stories. More important, through their exploration they collectively demonstrate that the study of narrative, like the study of other significant human creations, has taken a quantum leap in the modern era. No longer the province of literary specialists who borrow their terms from psychology or linguistics, the study of narrative has become and invaluable source of insight for all the branches of human and natural science. Multidisciplinary in scope, these essays dramatize and and clarify the most fundamental debates about the nature and value of narrative as a means by which human beings attempt to represent and make sense of the world.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50258835144977,"sku":"GOR001952309","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50913883750673,"sku":"CIN0226532178VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51939541483793,"sku":"GOR009761325","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52103209746705,"sku":"CIN0226532178G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52108699238673,"sku":"GOR005493248","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52734646812945,"sku":"NIN9780226532172","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":53256382185745,"sku":"CIN0226532178A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0226532178.jpg?v=1750940825"},{"product_id":"what-do-pictures-want-book-w-j-t-mitchell-9780226532455","title":"What Do Pictures Want?","description":"Why do we have such extraordinarily powerful responses toward the images and pictures we see in everyday life? Why do we behave as if pictures were alive, possessing the power to influence us, to demand things from us, to persuade us, seduce us, or even lead us astray? According to W. J. T. Mitchell, we need to reckon with images not just as inert objects that convey meaning but as animated beings with desires, needs, appetites, demands, and drives of their own. What Do Pictures Want? explores this idea and highlights Mitchell's innovative and profoundly influential thinking on picture theory and the lives and loves of images. Ranging across the visual arts, literature, and mass media, Mitchell applies characteristically brilliant and wry analyses to Byzantine icons and cyberpunk films, racial stereotypes and public monuments, ancient idols and modern clones, offensive images and found objects, American photography and aboriginal painting. Opening new vistas in iconology and the emergent field of visual culture, he also considers the importance of Dolly the Sheep - who, as a clone, fulfills the ancient dream of creating a living image - and the destruction of the World Trade Center on 9\/11, which, among other things, signifies a new and virulent form of iconoclasm. What Do Pictures Want? offers an immensely rich and suggestive account of the interplay between the visible and the readable. A work by one of our leading theorists of visual representation, it will be a touchstone for art historians, literary critics, anthropologists, and philosophers alike.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50273585430801,"sku":"CIN0226532453G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52397678133521,"sku":"GOR005662091","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0226532453.jpg?v=1750738123"},{"product_id":"cloning-terror-book-w-j-t-mitchell-9780226532608","title":"Cloning Terror","description":"The phrase 'War on Terror' has quietly been retired from official usage, but it persists in the American psyche, and our understanding of it is hardly complete. Exploring the role of verbal and visual images in the War on Terror, the author finds a conflict whose shaky metaphoric and imaginary conception has created its own reality.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50345999859985,"sku":"CIN0226532607G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/B00A2LR9NI.jpg?v=1750738124"},{"product_id":"iconology-book-w-j-t-mitchell-9780226532288","title":"Iconology","description":"This is a book about the things people say about images. It is not primarily concerned with specific pictures and the things people say about them, but rather with the way we talk about the idea of imagery, and all its related notions of picturing, imagining, perceiving, likening, and imitating. It is a book about images, therefore, that has no illustrations except for a few schematic diagrams, a book about vision written as if by a blind author for a blind reader. If it contains any insight into real, material pictures, it is the sort that might come to a blind listener, overhearing the conversation the sighted speakers talking about images. My hypothesis is that such a listener might see patterns in these conversations that would be invisible to the sighted participant.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50608453091601,"sku":"CIN0226532283G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0226532283.jpg?v=1751005318"},{"product_id":"language-of-images-book-w-j-t-mitchell-9780226532158","title":"The Language of Images","description":"\"A remarkably rich and provocative set of essays on the virtually infinite kinds of meanings generated by images in both the verbal and visual arts. Ranging from Michelangelo to Velazquez and Delacroix, from the art of the emblem book to the history of photography and film, The Language of Images offers at once new ways of thinking about the inexhaustibly complex relation between verbal and iconic representation.\"—James A. W. Heffernan, Dartmouth College","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":50938709344529,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50938709606673,"sku":"GOR008663841","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51839110873361,"sku":"CIN0226532151G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0226532151.jpg?v=1750812664"},{"product_id":"landscape-and-power-book-w-j-t-mitchell-9780226532059","title":"Landscape and Power","description":"This work, originally published in 1994, reshapes the direction of landscape studies by considering landscape not simply as an object to be seen or a text to be read, but as an instrument of cultural force, a central tool in the creation of national and social identity.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51313546199313,"sku":"NGR9780226532059","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51313547542801,"sku":"CIN0226532054G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51313549672721,"sku":"GOR006668983","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51313550754065,"sku":"GOR013233269","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51313551868177,"sku":"NIN9780226532059","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53243260240145,"sku":"GOR008114525","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53699429269777,"sku":"CIN0226532054VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0226532054.jpg?v=1750876493"},{"product_id":"occupy-three-inquiries-in-disobedience-book-w-j-t-mitchell-9780226042749","title":"Occupy  Three Inquiries in Disobedience","description":"Features three essays that engage the extraordinary Occupy movement that has swept across the world, examining everything from self-immolations in the Middle East to the G8 crackdown in Chicago to the many protest signs still visible worldwide.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51608963678481,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51608964366609,"sku":"GOR010042277","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51859106955537,"sku":"CIN022604274XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/022604274X.jpg?v=1751447737"},{"product_id":"picture-theory-book-w-j-t-mitchell-9780226532318","title":"Picture Theory","description":"What precisely, W. J. T. Mitchell asks, are pictures (and theories of pictures) doing now, in the late twentieth century, when the power of the visual is said to be greater than ever before, and the pictorial turn supplants the linguistic turn in the study of culture? This book by one of America's leading theorists of visual representation offers a rich account of the interplay between the visible and the readable across culture, from literature to visual art to the mass media.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":52113415864593,"sku":"CIN0226532313A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53439285657873,"sku":"CIN0226532313G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780226532318.jpg?v=1757280372"},{"product_id":"seeing-through-madness-book-w-j-t-mitchell-9780226652702","title":"Seeing Through Madness","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn insightful reconsideration of our historical moment seen through the lens of madness\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eSeeing Through Madness\u003c\/i\u003e, W. J. T. Mitchell pursues the idea of \"putting madness to work\" by transforming it from an individual affliction--an illness to be treated--into a critical framework for understanding the human condition. The human species is now a danger to itself and others--the very definition of mental disorder in most societies. Therefore, it is time, Mitchell argues, for a fundamental reconsideration of madness, not only as a subject in media and the arts but more fundamentally as a \"critical optic\" on our historical moment. It is time to see \u003ci\u003ethrough \u003c\/i\u003emadness in all its variations, to see by means of it as a template for understanding, and to see it through to some form of wisdom. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhile drawing a sense of urgency from Michell's conviction that the whole world is experiencing a widespread political madness, the book specifically focuses on American psychoses and collective disorders, not least the country's delusional exceptionalism. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIncisive, eclectic, and occasionally enraged, Mitchell's essays are the guide we need to see us through crazy times.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53452666700049,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":53452667027729,"sku":"NGR9780226652702","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780226652702.jpg?v=1782818320"},{"product_id":"seeing-through-madness-book-w-j-t-mitchell-9780226652849","title":"Seeing Through Madness","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn insightful reconsideration of our historical moment seen through the lens of madness\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eSeeing Through Madness\u003c\/i\u003e, W. J. T. Mitchell pursues the idea of \"putting madness to work\" by transforming it from an individual affliction--an illness to be treated--into a critical framework for understanding the human condition. The human species is now a danger to itself and others--the very definition of mental disorder in most societies. Therefore, it is time, Mitchell argues, for a fundamental reconsideration of madness, not only as a subject in media and the arts but more fundamentally as a \"critical optic\" on our historical moment. It is time to see \u003ci\u003ethrough \u003c\/i\u003emadness in all its variations, to see by means of it as a template for understanding, and to see it through to some form of wisdom. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhile drawing a sense of urgency from Michell's conviction that the whole world is experiencing a widespread political madness, the book specifically focuses on American psychoses and collective disorders, not least the country's delusional exceptionalism. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIncisive, eclectic, and occasionally enraged, Mitchell's essays are the guide we need to see us through crazy times.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":53452679184657,"sku":"NGR9780226652849","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780226652849.jpg?v=1782823388"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-au\/collections\/author-books-by-w-j-t-mitchell.oembed?page=2","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}