W J Thomas Mitchell (54 results)

Trade paperback. Condition: Very good. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 386 p. Audience: General/trade.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Good - Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name - GOOD Standard-sized.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDGood paperback with clean pages. A little bent from storage.

Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. xxi, 380 pages, 16 pages of plates, illustrations (some colour); 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. *** "Why do we have such extraordinarily powerful responses toward the images and pictures we see in everyday life? Why do we behave as if pictures were alive, possessing the power to influence us, to demand things from us, to persuade us, seduce us, or even lead us astray? According to W. J. T. Mitchell, we need to reckon with images not just as inert objects that convey meaning but as animated beings with desires, needs, appetites, demands, and drives of their own. What Do Pictures Want? explores this idea and highlights Mitchell's innovative and profoundly influential thinking on picture theory and the lives and loves of images. Ranging across the visual arts, literature, and mass media, Mitchell applies characteristically brilliant and wry analyses to Byzantine icons and cyberpunk films, racial stereotypes and public monuments, ancient idols and modern clones, offensive images and found objects, American photography and aboriginal painting. Opening new vistas in iconology and the emergent field of visual culture, he also considers the importance of Dolly the Sheep--who, as a clone, fulfills the ancient dream of creating a living image--and the destruction of the World Trade Center on 9/11, which, among other things, signifies a new and virulent form of iconoclasm. What Do Pictures Want? offers an immensely rich and suggestive account of the interplay between the visible and the readable. A work by one of our leading theorists of visual representation, it will be a touchstone for art historians, literary critics, anthropologists, and philosophers alike. / W. J. T. Mitchell is the Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature and in the Department of Art History at the University of Chicago. He is the author or editor of eight books published by the University of Chicago Press, including Picture Theory, Iconology, and Landscape and Power. He is also the editor of Critical Inquiry." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: Images. Vital signs: cloning terror; What do pictures want?; Drawing desire; The surplus value of images; Objects. Founding objects; Offending images; Empire and objecthood; Romanticism and the life of things; Totemism, fetishism, idolatry; Media. Addressing media; Abstraction and intimacy; What sculpture wants: placing Antony Gormley; The ends of American photography: Robert Frank as national medium; Living color: race, stereotype, and animation in Spike Lee's Bamboozled; The work of art in the age of biocybernetic reproduction; Showing seeing: a critique of visual culture. Size: 8vo.…

Condition: good. Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.

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Condition: Gut. Softcover, Broschur in gutem Zustand. Innen wie außen mit nur leichten Lager- oder Gebrauchspuren. Bitte beachten Sie unsere Bilder. B09-02-05K|[X2188] Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 308.

Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First edition. 8vo, 250 pp. "Compliments of the Publisher" slip laid in. Light superficial insect damage at spine and extremities, extremities lighlty bumped, page edges tanned and foxed, slight discoloration to endpapers, light foxing to a few pages. Jacket foxed and worn with numerous small chips and tears.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 512 pp. Pictorial boards; pale blue endpapers; illustrated in full colour throughout. Lightly rubbed on the corners; no interior markings; as issued, no dustjacket. Cover art by Phlcold. This anthology contains: Beachhead by Clifford D. Simak; A Martian Odyssey by Stanley G. Weinbaum; Leaving for te Moon by Jules Verne; The Cycap Notebooks by Stephen James; On Mercury by John Munro; Sultana's Dream by Rokheya Sakhawat Hossain; Time After Time by Stephen James; The Worlds of If by Stanley G. Weinbaum; Planetoid 127 by Edgar Wallace; The Time Traveller by H. G. Wells; The Shadow and the Flash by Jack London; The Man Without a Body by Edward Page Mitchell; The New Sun by J. S. Fletcher; London Times 1904 by Mark Twain; A Tales of Negative Gravity by Frank R Stockton; The Cylinder Opens by H. G. Wells; The Horror of the Heights by Arthur Conan Doyle; The Monster Maker by W. C. Morrow; Micromegas by Voltaire; Armageddon 2419 AD by Phillip Frances Nowlan; Mellonta Tauta by Edgar Allan Poe; Battling the Morlock by H. G. Wells; and In a Thousand Years by Hans Christian Andersen. Size: 8vo. Philcold; (illustrator). Book.…

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: very good. Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages.

. Reprint of 1876 edition. Previous owner's stamp on ffep and upper edge of text. Slight browning and wear on all edges of text. Otherwise VG pp.

Condition: good. Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.

Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good +. None as issued. Clean, solid copy with erased price on corner of first page, otherwise no writing, highlighting, marks, or creased page corners. Cover is glossy with very light surface wear and a slight curve at fore edge. Binding tight and square; no creases to spine or cover. We are unable to ship oversize books and multi-volume sets internationally.…

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[1948]. (Staplebound) Very good. 62pp. Owner stamp on the front cover. Contributors include A.A. Herriot (School Inspectors in the Early Days of Manitoba), Margaret A. MacLeod (Life in the Early West), Ross Mitchell (Early Doctors of Red River and Manitoba), Lillian Benyon Thomas (Some Manitoba Women Who Did First Things), E.K. Williams (Aspects of the Legal History of Manitoba). Locale: . Series: Manitoba Historical Society Series III 4. (Manitoba, Doctors, Education, Pioneer Women, Pioneers).…

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 352 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.20 inches. In Stock.

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Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 352 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.20 inches. In Stock.

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Paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - El presente libro reúne los textos más recientes sobre estética de los media, cultura visual y simbolismo artístico de uno de los autores que ayudó a lanzar y fundamentar los Estudios Visuales. En sus distintos capítulos se abordan, entre otros temas, la.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 288 pages. 10.50x8.13x1.22 inches. In Stock.

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