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Iconology: Image, Text, Ideology

"[Mitchell] undertakes to explore the nature of images by comparing them with words, or, more precisely, by looking at them from the viewpoint of verbal language. . . . The most lucid exposition of the subject I have ever read."—Rudolf Arnheim, Times Literary Supplement

Themes
art
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 236 pages

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