| W. J. T.
Mitchell is Professor of English and Art History at the
University of Chicago. He is editor of the interdisciplinary
journal,
Critical Inquiry, a quarterly devoted to
critical theory in the arts and human sciences. A scholar and
theorist of media, visual art, and literature, Mitchell
is associated with the emergent fields of visual culture and
iconology (the study of images across the media). He is known
especially for his work on the relations of visual and verbal
representations in the context of social and political issues.
Under his editorship,
Critical Inquiry has published
special issues on public art, psychoanalysis, pluralism,
feminism, the sociology of literature, canons, race and
identity, narrative, the politics of interpretation,
postcolonial theory, and many other topics. He has been the
recipient of numerous awards including the Guggenheim
Fellowship and the Morey Prize in art history given by the
College Art Association of America. In 2003, he received the
University of Chicago's prestigious Faculty Award for Excellence
in Graduate Teaching. His publications include:
"The Pictorial Turn,"
Artforum, March 1992;
"What Do Pictures Want?" October, Summer
1996;
What Do Pictures Want? (2005);
The Last Dinosaur Book: The Life and Times of a
Cultural Icon (1998);
Picture Theory (1994);
Art
and the Public Sphere (1993);
Landscape and Power
(1992);
Iconology (1987);
The Language of Images
(1980);
On
Narrative (1981); and The Politics of
Interpretation (1984). |
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