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The Pictorial Turn (Paperback)
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In 1992 W. J. T. Mitchell argued for a "pictorial turn" in the
humanities, registering a renewed interest in and prevalence of
pictures and images in what had been understood as an age of
simulation, or an increasingly extensive and diverse visual
culture. However, in what is often characterized as a society of
the "spectacle" we still do not know exactly what pictures or
images are, what their relation to language is, how they operate on
observers and the world, how their history is to be understood, and
what is to be done with or about them. In this seminal collection
of essays, the first to be devoted to the "pictorial turn",
theorists from across the humanities and social sciences,
representing the disciplines of art history, philosophy, geography,
media studies, visual studies and anthropology, are brought
together with a paleontologist and practising artists to consider
amongst other things the relation between pictures and images, the
power of landscape, the nature of political images, the status of
images in the natural sciences, the "life" of images, and the
pictorial uncanny. With these topics in mind, picture theory and
iconology exceed in scope the objects of visual culture
conventionally understood. This book was published as a special
issue of Culture, Theory and Critique.
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