William J Mitchell

• “Every war is a war of words and images”

  Open Access•Pablo Manolo Rodríguez, Pamela Martínez Rod et al.•ARTICLE•Frontiers of Narrative Studies•2025

  Añadir item

  W.J.T. Mitchell is Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor of English and Art History at the University of Chicago and editor of the journal Critical Inquiry . He is an iconology and cultural studies expert, and his works include Iconology: Image, Text, Ideology (1986), Cloning Terror (2011) and the collection of influent essays What Do Pictures Want? (2005), awarded the 2006 James Russell Lowell Prize from the Modern Language Associati…

• Temporal memory for threatening events encoded in a haunted house

  Katelyn G Cliver, David F Gregory et al.•ARTICLE•Cognition & Emotion•2025•Citada por: 2•Referencias: 34

  Añadir item

  Despite the salient experience of encoding threatening events, these memories are prone to distortions and often non-veridical from encoding to recall. Further, threat has been shown to preferentially disrupt the binding of event details and enhance goal-relevant information. While extensive work has characterised distinctive features of emotional memory, research has not fully explored the influence threat has on temporal memory, a process putat…

• Old Trees, Wild Rivers

  W J T Mitchell, William J Mitchell•ARTICLE•Critical Inquiry•2023•Referencias: 1

  Añadir item

• Par-delà la comparaison. L’image, le texte, la méthode

  Open Access•William J Mitchell, William John Thomas Mitchell et al.•ARTICLE•Perspective•2022

  Añadir item

  Cet essai de l’historien de l’art et théoricien littéraire William J. Th. Mitchell a initialement paru dans Picture Theory (fig. 1) en 1994, il en constitue le troisième chapitre. Tour d’horizon décloisonné des modes de représentation visuelle et verbale, l’ouvrage s’intéresse en particulier à leurs configurations hybrides, à leurs mises en abîme, tel le tableau de René Magritte La Trahison des images (1929), plus connu sous le titre apocryphe Ce…

• Słowo i obraz

  Open Access•William J Mitchell, William J Thomas Mitchell et al.•ARTICLE•Teksty Drugie•2022

  Añadir item

  21 cm

• The Surplus Value of Images

  W J T Mitchell, William J Mitchell•ARTICLE•Mosaic•2022

  Añadir item

  This essay analyzes the ways in which images are over- and under-estimated, from idols that signify the highest values and demand human sacrifice, to empty signs that are worthless, hollow illusions. It then shows how these disparate estimations of "the surplus value of images" lead to the perception of images as living agencies that play crucial roles in social conflicts

• Reframing Landscape

  W J T Mitchell, William J Mitchell•ARTICLE•ARTMargins•2021

  Añadir item

  “Reframing Landscape” explores three distinct landscapes that have been decisively impacted by conquest and colonization, reframed by three artistic interventions: painting, photography, and sculpture. August Earle shows us the de-forested landscape of 19th century New Zealand, still guarded by a Maori totem; Miki Kratsman photographs a wall mural in occupied Palestine that erases the presence of indigeneous people; and Antony Gormley anticipates…

• Making the case for a convention on the human rights of older persons

  William J Mitchell•ARTICLE•Australian Journal of Human Rights•2021•Referencias: 1

  Añadir item

  Andrew Byrnes’s work has furthered the critical analysis of older persons’ human rights within domestic and global contexts. This article examines his significant contribution to scholarly and advocacy discourse in older persons’ human rights and the impact of that work. By reviewing Byrnes’s work across the last decade, this article locates his contribution within the field. The article observes that Byrnes’s approach provides options to reignit…

• Present Tense 2020

  W J T Mitchell, William J Mitchell•ARTICLE•Critical Inquiry•2021•Citada por: 4•Referencias: 4

  Añadir item

  When is it a good time to think about time? The answer provided by this essay is that there is no time like the present, especially the crazy, tense present of the year 2020. In this year four distinct scales of temporality have collided in a prolonged period of crisis and uncertainty: (1) the onset of a global pandemic that devastated the world economy and killed over a million people, the worst public health disaster since the Spanish flu of 19…

• Mental Traveler

  W J T Mitchell, William J Mitchell•BOOK•Mental Traveler•2020

  Añadir item

• Grégoire Chamayou. A Theory of the Drone . Trans. Janet Lloyd. New York

  W J T Mitchell, William J Mitchell•ARTICLE•Critical Inquiry•2017

  Añadir item

• Beholding Violence in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

  Terry-Fritsch Allie, Felicia Labbie Erin et al.•BOOK•Beholding Violence in Medieval…•2017

  Añadir item

• Bashir Makhoul and Gordon Hon. The Origins of Palestinian Art . Liverpool

  W J T Mitchell, William J Mitchell•ARTICLE•Critical Inquiry•2016

  Añadir item

• Image Science

  W J T Mitchell, William J Mitchell•BOOK•Image Science•2015

  Añadir item

• Comics as Media

  W J T Mitchell, William J Mitchell•ARTICLE•Critical Inquiry•2014•Citada por: 6

  Añadir item

• Seeing Through Race

  W J T Mitchell, William J Mitchell•BOOK•Seeing Through Race•2012

  Añadir item

• Preface to “Occupy

  W J T Mitchell, William J Mitchell•ARTICLE•Critical Inquiry•2012•Citada por: 5•Referencias: 2

  Añadir item

• Image, Space, Revolution

  W J T Mitchell, William J Mitchell•ARTICLE•Critical Inquiry•2012•Citada por: 44•Referencias: 5

  Añadir item

• Report from Morocco

  W J T Mitchell, William J Mitchell•ARTICLE•Critical Inquiry•2012

  Añadir item

• Poetic Justice

  W J T Mitchell, William J Mitchell•ARTICLE•Critical Inquiry•2012•Referencias: 1

  Añadir item

• Migration, Law, and the Image

  Open Access•W J T Mitchell, William J Mitchell•CHAPTER•Images of Illegalized Immigration•2010

  Añadir item

• Cloning Terror

  W J T Mitchell, William J Mitchell•BOOK•Cloning Terror•2010

  Añadir item

• Iconologie, culture visuelle et esthétique des médias

  Open Access•William J Mitchell, William J Thomas Mitchell•ARTICLE•Perspective•2009

  Añadir item

  Cela fait bien longtemps que je ne peux plus me considrer comme tranger la sphre de l'histoire de l'art. Mme sans avoir de doctorat dans cette matire, je l'ai laboure depuis tant d'annes que, comme l'aurait dit Karl Marx, mes muscles et mon cerveau ne font dsormais qu'un avec la terre des arts visuels, et c'est l o je m'attends tre enterr. Mais il fut un temps, dans les annes 1980, o j'appartenais une gnration de critiques littraires et de philos…

• Pictorial versus Iconic Turn

  Gottfried Boehm, W J T Mitchell et al.•ARTICLE•Renaissance and Modern Studies•2009•Citada por: 20•Referencias: 1

  Añadir item

  In this exchange of letters, Gottfried Boehm and W. J. T. Mitchell explore the intellectual paths that brought them to simultaneously advocate an 'iconic turn' and a 'pictorial turn' respectively. They trace the emergence of the study of images through art history and philosophy and consider the diversity of images and the array of issues and ideas that come together under the topic of 'iconology' and 'pictoriality'. On the way they discuss the u…

• Art, Fate, and the Disciplines

  W J T Mitchell, William J Mitchell•ARTICLE•Critical Inquiry•2009•Citada por: 1

  Añadir item

• Animal Rites

  Cary Wolfe, W J T Mitchell et al.•BOOK•Animal Rites•2003•Citada por: 167

  Añadir item

  Now that supposedly distinguishing marks of humanity, from reasoning to tool use, have been found in other species, how can we justify discriminating against nonhuman animals solely on basis of their species? And how must cultural studies and critical practices change to do justice to others who are not human? In Animal Rites, Cary Wolfe examines contemporary notions of humanism, ethics and animals by reconstructing a little known but crucial und…

• What Do Pictures "Really" Want

  W J T Mitchell, William J Mitchell•BOOK•October•1996•Citada por: 77

  Añadir item

  This essay, later incorporated as a chapter in What Do Pictures Want? (2005), explores the complex relationship between images and desire, arguing that pictures, like other objects of desire, solicit attention and evoke emotional responses. Mitchell challenges the traditional iconographic approach to image analysis, proposing instead a "biopicture" theory that treats images as living entities with their own agency and demands. He draws on a wide …

• Image, Space, Revolution

  W J T Mitchell, William J Mitchell•ARTICLE•Critical Inquiry•2012•Citada por: 44•Referencias: 5

  Añadir item

• Spatial Form in Literature

  W J T Mitchell, William J Mitchell•ARTICLE•Critical Inquiry•1980•Citada por: 42

  Añadir item

• Holy Landscape

  W J T Mitchell, William J Mitchell•ARTICLE•Critical Inquiry•2000•Citada por: 35

  Añadir item

• Pictorial versus Iconic Turn

  Gottfried Boehm, W J T Mitchell et al.•ARTICLE•Renaissance and Modern Studies•2009•Citada por: 20•Referencias: 1

  Añadir item

  In this exchange of letters, Gottfried Boehm and W. J. T. Mitchell explore the intellectual paths that brought them to simultaneously advocate an 'iconic turn' and a 'pictorial turn' respectively. They trace the emergence of the study of images through art history and philosophy and consider the diversity of images and the array of issues and ideas that come together under the topic of 'iconology' and 'pictoriality'. On the way they discuss the u…

• What Is an Image

  W J T Mitchell, William J Mitchell•ARTICLE•New Literary History•1984•Citada por: 15

  Añadir item

  T HERE HAVE BEEN times when the question What is an image? was matter of some urgency. In eighthand ninth-century Byzantium, for instance, your answer would have immediately identified you as partisan in the struggle between emperor and patriarch, as radical iconoclast seeking to purify the Church of idolatry, or conservative iconophile seeking to preserve traditional liturgical practices. The conflict over the nature and use of icons, on the sur…

• Romanticism and the Life of Things

  W J T Mitchell, William J Mitchell•ARTICLE•Critical Inquiry•2001•Citada por: 13

  Añadir item

• The Violence of Public Art

  W J T Mitchell, William J Mitchell•ARTICLE•Critical Inquiry•1990•Citada por: 13

  Añadir item

• Edward Said

  W J T Mitchell, William J Mitchell et al.•ARTICLE•Critical Inquiry•2005•Citada por: 9

  Añadir item

• Medium Theory

  W J T Mitchell, William J Mitchell•ARTICLE•Critical Inquiry•2004•Citada por: 9

  Añadir item

• Comics as Media

  W J T Mitchell, William J Mitchell•ARTICLE•Critical Inquiry•2014•Citada por: 6

  Añadir item

• The Politics of Genre

  W J T Mitchell, William J Mitchell•ARTICLE•Representations•1984•Citada por: 6

  Añadir item

  Research Article| April 01 1984 The Politics of Genre: Space and Time in Lessing's Laocoon W. J. T. Mitchell W. J. T. Mitchell Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (1984) 6: 98–115. https://doi.org/10.2307/2928540 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search …

• Critical Inquiry' and the Ideology of Pluralism

  W J T Mitchell, William J Mitchell•ARTICLE•Critical Inquiry•1982•Citada por: 6

  Añadir item

• Preface to “Occupy

  W J T Mitchell, William J Mitchell•ARTICLE•Critical Inquiry•2012•Citada por: 5•Referencias: 2

  Añadir item

• Present Tense 2020

  W J T Mitchell, William J Mitchell•ARTICLE•Critical Inquiry•2021•Citada por: 4•Referencias: 4

  Añadir item

  When is it a good time to think about time? The answer provided by this essay is that there is no time like the present, especially the crazy, tense present of the year 2020. In this year four distinct scales of temporality have collided in a prolonged period of crisis and uncertainty: (1) the onset of a global pandemic that devastated the world economy and killed over a million people, the worst public health disaster since the Spanish flu of 19…

• Criticism and Crisis

  W J T Mitchell, William J Mitchell•ARTICLE•Critical Inquiry•2002•Citada por: 4

  Añadir item

• Ut Pictura Theoria

  W J T Mitchell, William J Mitchell•ARTICLE•Critical Inquiry•1989•Citada por: 4

  Añadir item

• Diagrammatology

  W J T Mitchell, William J Mitchell•ARTICLE•Critical Inquiry•1981•Citada por: 4

  Añadir item

• Pluralism as Dogmatism

  W J T Mitchell, William J Mitchell•ARTICLE•Critical Inquiry•1986•Citada por: 3

  Añadir item

• Temporal memory for threatening events encoded in a haunted house

  Katelyn G Cliver, David F Gregory et al.•ARTICLE•Cognition & Emotion•2025•Citada por: 2•Referencias: 34

  Añadir item

  Despite the salient experience of encoding threatening events, these memories are prone to distortions and often non-veridical from encoding to recall. Further, threat has been shown to preferentially disrupt the binding of event details and enhance goal-relevant information. While extensive work has characterised distinctive features of emotional memory, research has not fully explored the influence threat has on temporal memory, a process putat…

• The Ends of Theory

  W J T Mitchell, William J Mitchell et al.•ARTICLE•Critical Inquiry•2005•Citada por: 2

  Añadir item

• Seeing 'Do the Right Thing

  W J T Mitchell, William J Mitchell•ARTICLE•Critical Inquiry•1991•Citada por: 2

  Añadir item

• An Interview with Barbara Kruger

  W J T Mitchell, William J Mitchell et al.•ARTICLE•Critical Inquiry•1991•Citada por: 2

  Añadir item

• Art, Fate, and the Disciplines

  W J T Mitchell, William J Mitchell•ARTICLE•Critical Inquiry•2009•Citada por: 1

  Añadir item

• The Life and Times of Beethoven

  Edouard Herriot, Adelheid I Mitchell et al.•ARTICLE•The Musical Times•1936

  Añadir item

• Poetic and Pictorial Imagination in Blake's The Book of Urizen

  W J T Mitchell, William J Mitchell•ARTICLE•Eighteenth-Century Studies•1969

  Añadir item

• "Critical Inquiry" after Sheldon Sacks

  W J T Mitchell, William J Mitchell•ARTICLE•The Bulletin of the Midwest…•1979

  Añadir item

• Sheldon Sacks 1930-1979

  Robert E Streeter, Wayne C Booth et al.•ARTICLE•Critical Inquiry•1979

  Añadir item

• Blake's Composite Art

  Joseph Wittreich, W J T Mitchell et al.•ARTICLE•Eighteenth-Century Studies•1980

  Añadir item

• Spatial Form in Literature

  W J T Mitchell, William J Mitchell•ARTICLE•Critical Inquiry•1980•Citada por: 42

  Añadir item

• Diagrammatology

  W J T Mitchell, William J Mitchell•ARTICLE•Critical Inquiry•1981•Citada por: 4

  Añadir item

• Critical Inquiry' and the Ideology of Pluralism

  W J T Mitchell, William J Mitchell•ARTICLE•Critical Inquiry•1982•Citada por: 6

  Añadir item

• The Language of Images

  Carolyn Dussere, W J T Mitchell et al.•ARTICLE•The German Quarterly•1983

  Añadir item

• What Is an Image

  W J T Mitchell, William J Mitchell•ARTICLE•New Literary History•1984•Citada por: 15

  Añadir item

  T HERE HAVE BEEN times when the question What is an image? was matter of some urgency. In eighthand ninth-century Byzantium, for instance, your answer would have immediately identified you as partisan in the struggle between emperor and patriarch, as radical iconoclast seeking to purify the Church of idolatry, or conservative iconophile seeking to preserve traditional liturgical practices. The conflict over the nature and use of icons, on the sur…

• The Politics of Genre

  W J T Mitchell, William J Mitchell•ARTICLE•Representations•1984•Citada por: 6

  Añadir item

  Research Article| April 01 1984 The Politics of Genre: Space and Time in Lessing's Laocoon W. J. T. Mitchell W. J. T. Mitchell Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (1984) 6: 98–115. https://doi.org/10.2307/2928540 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search …

• Iconology

  W J T Mitchell, William J Mitchell et al.•BOOK•Iconology•1986

  Añadir item

  dopuszcza się delikatnych prowokacji pod adresem historyków sztuki badających twórczość Stanisława Igna cego Witkiewicza; twierdzi, że pomijają

• Introduction

  W J T Mitchell, William J Mitchell•ARTICLE•Critical Inquiry•1986

  Añadir item

• How Good Is Nelson Goodman

  W J T Mitchell, William J Mitchell et al.•ARTICLE•Poetics Today•1986

  Añadir item

• Pluralism as Dogmatism

  W J T Mitchell, William J Mitchell•ARTICLE•Critical Inquiry•1986•Citada por: 3

  Añadir item

• The Political Theory of Painting From Reynolds to Hazlitt

  W J T Mitchell, William J Mitchell et al.•ARTICLE•Eighteenth-Century Studies•1987

  Añadir item

• Wittgenstein's Imagery and What It Tells Us

  W J T Mitchell, William J Mitchell•ARTICLE•New Literary History•1988

  Añadir item

  ITERARY CRITICS who like to go to the philosophers for help have good reason to be both attracted and repelled by the work of Wittgenstein. His writing would seem in many ways to be concerned with just the topics that are of most interest to us: language, meaning, thought, and their relations to forms of life, the ways we live. And yet Wittgenstein presents a real problem for literary critics, not just because he is difficult (certainly Kant, Heg…

• Iconology

  David Topper, W J T Mitchell et al.•ARTICLE•Leonardo•1989

  Añadir item

• Space, Ideology, and Literary Representation

  W J T Mitchell, William J Mitchell•ARTICLE•Poetics Today•1989•Citada por: 1

  Añadir item

  first thing to say about notion of space from a literary point of view is that it does not exist, or should not exist. Literature, as we have been told at least since Lessing's Laocoon, is a temporal art. Space enters into literature only as a dubious fiction, as a phantom in minds of overimaginative readers, as an invasion from alien and rival forms like painting, or as a necessary evil in transmission of verbal by spatial, visible traces of wri…

• Ut Pictura Theoria

  W J T Mitchell, William J Mitchell•ARTICLE•Critical Inquiry•1989•Citada por: 4

  Añadir item

• Influence, Autobiography, and Literary History

  W J T Mitchell, William J Mitchell•ARTICLE•ELH•1990

  Añadir item

  Influence, autobiography, literary history: what logic, what practical necessity could bring these terms together in the same text, even the same sentence? At the most general level, one could imagine a kind of literary history constructed out of chains of influences revealed through the autobiographies of writers. Autobiography would have an extended sense in this form of literary history: all literary texts, it would argue, grow out of a strugg…

• The Poetics of Gardens

  Elizabeth Crumley, Charles W Moore et al.•ARTICLE•Leonardo•1990

  Añadir item

• The Violence of Public Art

  W J T Mitchell, William J Mitchell•ARTICLE•Critical Inquiry•1990•Citada por: 13

  Añadir item

• Seeing 'Do the Right Thing

  W J T Mitchell, William J Mitchell•ARTICLE•Critical Inquiry•1991•Citada por: 2

  Añadir item

• An Interview with Barbara Kruger

  W J T Mitchell, William J Mitchell et al.•ARTICLE•Critical Inquiry•1991•Citada por: 2

  Añadir item

Art (50 obras) · Computer Science (36 obras) · Art history (30 obras) · Sociology (29 obras) · History (25 obras) · Political science (23 obras) · Law (20 obras) · History (19 obras) · Visual Culture and Art Theory (19 obras) · Library science (18 obras)