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  2. W. J. T. Mitchell - Wikipedia

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    William John Thomas Mitchell (born March 24, 1942) is an American academic. Mitchell is the Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor of English and Art History at the University of Chicago.

  3. Iconology - Wikipedia

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    In Iconology: Images, Text, Ideology (1986), W.J.T. Mitchell writes that iconology is a study of "what to say about images", concerned with the description and interpretation of visual art, and also a study of "what images say" – the ways in which they seem to speak for themselves by persuading, telling stories, or describing. [18]

  4. Depiction - Wikipedia

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    However more recently, a natural or neutral level tends to be abandoned as mythical. The cultural scholar W. J. T. Mitchell [41] [42] [43] looks to ideology to determine resemblance and depiction as acknowledgement of shifts in relations there, albeit by an unspecified scheme or notation.

  5. The Hooded Man - Wikipedia

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    W. J. T. Mitchell analyzed the Abu Ghraib photos in his book Cloning Terror: the War of Images 9/11 to the Present. [5] The Hooded Man is reportedly one of the three iconic images from a larger set of leaked photos from Abu Ghraib, with the other two being "Pyramid of Bodies" and "Prisoner on a Leash". [15]

  6. Visual culture - Wikipedia

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    Likewise, W. J. T. Mitchell explicitly distinguishes the two fields in his claim that visual culture studies "helps us to see that even something as broad as the image does not exhaust the field of visuality; that visual studies is not the same thing as image studies, and that the study of the visual image is just one component of the larger ...

  7. Animal symbolicum - Wikipedia

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    W. J. T. Mitchell used this term in his essay on "representation" to say that "man, for many philosophers both ancient and modern, is the "representational animal," homo symbolicum , the creature whose distinctive character is the creation and manipulation of signs - things that stand for or take the place of something else." [1]

  8. J. T. W. Mitchell - Wikipedia

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    John Thomas Whitehead Mitchell (18 October 1828 – 16 March 1895) was a British co-operative activist. Born in Rochdale to a single mother, Mitchell received some education at the Red Cross Street National School, and at a Sunday school .

  9. WJT Mitchell - Wikipedia

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