Iconology: Image, Text, Ideology

Mitchell brings a kind of consensus approach within literary criticism to bear on the criticism of visual imagery; the criticism of an image as if it were a text. A lot of this has been done, without any discipline or care for consistency or clarity, by an army of post-structuralist French critics, with uneven results. Not that Agamben, Derrida and so on aren't quite worth reading, but I'd guess that reading them would be a lot more rewarding for someone who had read this little book first.

very good

Complexity in its essence. Recommend.

This is no Ideology 101, this is a challenging work that presumes a degree of knowledge of critical theory. It is very well written, of course, but some of the ideas (like the differences/relations between image and text) are mind-boggling. I am not a stranger to dense text crammed with classical allusions but have Google ready if, like me, you need your memory jogging.

Buena relación calidad-precio.

Useful book

Iconology: Image, Text, Ideology; W. J. T Mitchellin combination with "what pictures want" and "picture theory" is this book part of a trilogy explaining how to observe artwork today in a completely new way

capolavoro di W.J.MITCHELL nell'approccio multidisciplinare del concetto della metafora,Opera di grande chiarezza e strumento di lavoro incomparabile per gli studiosi della materia