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Picture Theory : Essays on Verbal and Visual Representation
Overview
"All that is logocentric melts into images in this fascinating discussion, which might also be titled 'What Do Pictures Want?' Do they want to get along with text or elbow it out of the way? At a time when the contents of entire art galleries are available from Microsoft and writing of the alphabetic variety is not necessarily the signifier of choice, Mitchell's playful, erudite attempt to 'connect William Blake, Wittgenstein, and Spike Lee' couldn't be more on the money". -- Editors' Choices, Voice Literary Supplement
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- ISBN-13: 9780226532325
- ISBN-10: 0226532321
- Publisher: University of Chicago Press
- Publish Date: September 1995
- Dimensions: 8.88 x 6.16 x 0.97 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.34 pounds
- Page Count: 462
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