W. J. T. Mitchell

William John Thomas Mitchell ( b. 1942 ) is an American art historian. He is Professor of English and Art History at the University of Chicago.

Mitchell is internationally recognized as one of the leading theorists in the field of image science, in particular his monographs Iconology (1986 ) and Picture Theory ( 1994) should be mentioned. He is the editor of the journal Critical Inquiry and staff of the journal October.

2004/2005 Mitchell was a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study Berlin. 2008 First published in two books by Mitchell in German.

Writings

Books in English

  • Cloning Terror. The War of Images. 9/1to the Present. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, USA 2011, ISBN 978-0-226-53260-8.
  • What do Pictures Want? the Lives and Loves of Images. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, 2005. Reviews
  • The Last Dinosaur Book: The Life and Times of a Cultural Icon. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, 1998.
  • Picture Theory: Essays on Verbal and Visual Representation. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1994.
  • Iconology: Image, Text, Ideology. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1986.
  • Against Theory: Literary Studies and the New Pragmatism. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1985.
  • The Politics of Interpretation. University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1983.
  • On Narrative. University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1981. Reviews
  • The Language of Images. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1980.
  • Blake's Composite Art: A Study of the Illuminated Poetry. Princeton UP, Princeton 1978.
  • Cary Wolfe, W. J. T. Mitchell. Animal Rites: American Culture, the Discourse of Species and Post Humanist Theory. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL 2003, ISBN 0-226-90513-6.

Books on German

  • Cloning and terror. The war of images since 9 / 11th translated by Michael Bischoff. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-518-58569-6.
  • Image theory. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt aM 2008, ISBN 978-3-518-58494-1.
  • The life of images: a theory of visual culture. With a foreword by Hans Belting. Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-57359-0.
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