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W.J.T. Mitchell
No full textUIDB/00417/2020
UIDP/00417/2020W.J.T. Mitchell is Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, where he teaches in both the English and the Art History departments. Particularly focussed on the history and theories of media, visual art and literature, from the eighteenth century to the present, his research explores the relations of visual and verbal representations in the culture and iconology. Professor Mitchell edits the interdisciplinary journal Critical Inquiry, a quarterly devoted to critical theory in the arts and human sciences, which under his editorship has published special issues on public art, psychoanalysis, pluralism, feminism, the sociology of literature, canons, race and identity, narrative, the politics of interpretation, postcolonial theory, among many other topics. He has lectured at universities and art museums throughout the United States, as well as in Europe, South Africa, New Zealand and the Far East. His awards include the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Berlin Prize Fellowship to the American Academy in Berlin and the Morey Prize in art history given by the Colege Art Association of America. In 2003, he received the University of Chicago’s prestigious Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching. As an author, his numerous publications include the books Mental Traveler: A Journey through Schizophrenia (2020), Metapictures: A Cloud Atlas of Images (2020); Image Science: Iconography, Visual Culture, and Media Aesthetics (2015); Seeing Through Race (2012); Cloning Terror: The War of Images, 9/11 to the Present (2011), What Do Pictures Want? Essays on the Lives and Loves of Images (2005, awarded James Russell Lowell Prize by Modern Language Association, and Laing Prize by University of Chicago Press); Picture Theory (1994, awarded Charles Rufus Morey Prize for art history by College Art Association, and Laing Prize by University of Chicago Press), Iconology: Image, Text, Ideology (1986), and Blake’s Composite Art (1977). W.J.T. Mitchell is currently finishing a book entitled Seeing Through Madness.publishersversionpublishe
The Last Formalist, or W.J.T. Mitchell as Romantic Dinosaur
No full textThis volume contains an interview with W.J.T. Mitchell and a gloss by Orrin N.C. Wang which may be read through and against each other, much like the structure of Coleridge's Ancient Mariner transposed into a postmodern context. The critical innovation here is to use the web in such a way that views it as more than a mere repository of academic content, and to transform text into true hypertext. </p
Words and Pictures in the Age of the Image: An Interview with W.J.T. Mitchell
No full textAn interview conducted by Andrew McNamara with W.J.T. Mitchell, University of Chicago, editor of Critical Inquiry, and author of Iconology (1987), Picture Theory (1994), The Last Dinosaur Book (1998) and What Do Pictures Want? (2005). McNamara and Mitchell discuss a range of issues around the distinction between words and images, visual and verbal texts. \ud
This interview was conducted in 1996 and published in Eyeline magazine
Image et picture - W.J.T Mitchell
No full text"L'étude interdisciplinaire des médias verbaux et visuels en est venue à former une composante centrale des humanités" W.J.T. Mitchell, "Les quatre concepts fondamentaux de la science de l'image", in Iconologie, Les prairies ordinaires, 2009, p. 17 Iconologie, de W.J.T. Mitchell a été publié en 1986 aux Presses de Chicago. Il a fallu attendre 2009 et le travail de Maxime Boidy et Stéphane Roth pour qu'il soit traduit et publié en français. François Brunet a été l'un des premiers a accompagne..
Words and pictures in the age of the image: An interview with W.J.T. Mitchell
No full textW.J.T. Mitchell – one of the founders of visual studies – has been at the forefront of many disciplines such as iconology, art history and media studies. His concept of the pictorial turn is known worldwide for having set new philosophical paradigms in dealing with our vernacular visual world. This book will help both students and seasoned scholars to understand key terms in visual studies – pictorial turn, metapictures, literary iconology, image/text, biopictures or living pictures, among many others – while systematically presenting the work of Mitchell as one of the discipline's founders and most prominent figures. As a special feature, the book includes three comprehensive, authoritative and theoretically relevant interviews with Mitchell that focus on different stages of development of visual studies and critical iconology
W.J.T. Mitchell in Paris
No full textAt the rentrée scolaire of 2009, American scholar W.J.T. Mitchell made several appearances in Paris surrounding the French edition of his book Iconology: Image, Text, Ideology. This influential work, originally published in 1986 by the University of Chicago Press, has been released by Les Prairies ordinaires in a translation by Maxime Boidy and Stéphane Roth entitled Iconologie : image, textes, idéologie. Mitchell, a professor in the Departments of English and of art history at the University..
Quelques tableaux de la représentation, MEI N°49, p. 163-172
No full textW.J.T. Mitchell, "Some Pictures of representation", Picture Theory, Chicago, UCP, 199
W.J.T Mitchell, Cloning Terror
No full textAprès avoir différencié faits et perception des faits, établissant ainsi le rôle primordial des images dans l‘inconscient collectif et la création historique, W.J.T. Mitchell développe le double concept de clonage et de terreur, déjà initié en 2002 par l’auteur dans le contexte d’Iconoclash (Karlsruhe : ZKM, sous la dir. de Bruno Latour et Peter Weibel). En onze chapitres [dont « Pour une guerre contre l’erreur » (pp. 9-20), « La terreur clone » (pp. 41-52), « Clonophobie » (pp. 53-74), « Aut..
W.J.T Mitchell, Cloning Terror
No full textAprès avoir différencié faits et perception des faits, établissant ainsi le rôle primordial des images dans l‘inconscient collectif et la création historique, W.J.T. Mitchell développe le double concept de clonage et de terreur, déjà initié en 2002 par l’auteur dans le contexte d’Iconoclash (Karlsruhe : ZKM, sous la dir. de Bruno Latour et Peter Weibel). En onze chapitres [dont « Pour une guerre contre l’erreur » (pp. 9-20), « La terreur clone » (pp. 41-52), « Clonophobie » (pp. 53-74), « Aut..
Article 063 – Journée d’étude Iconologie: W.J.T Mitchell
No full textConférence de W.J.T Mitchell, Time, Madness and Democracy : Notes on the present Enregistrement audio de la conférence dans le cadre de la journée d’étude Iconologie le 14 octobre 201
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