Image Science: Iconology, Visual Culture, and Media Aesthetics by Mitchell, W. J. T.

Image Science: Iconology, Visual Culture, and Media Aesthetics

Almost thirty years ago, W. J. T. Mitchell's Iconology helped launch the interdisciplinary study of visual media,...
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Image Science: Iconology, Visual Culture, and Media Aesthetics by Mitchell, W. J. T.

Image Science: Iconology, Visual Culture, and Media Aesthetics

¥11,221

Image Science: Iconology, Visual Culture, and Media Aesthetics

¥11,221
Author: W. J. T. Mitchell
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Almost thirty years ago, W. J. T. Mitchell's Iconology helped launch the interdisciplinary study of visual media, now a central feature of the 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.

Author: W. J. T. Mitchell
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 01/30/2018
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.70h x 5.90w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780226565842

About the Author
W. J. T. Mitchell is the Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor of English and Art History at the University of Chicago and is editor of Critical Inquiry.


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