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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