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When students scoff at the idea of a magical relation between a picture and what it represents, ask them to take a photograph of their mother and cut out the eyes.

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Writing, in its physical, graphic form, is an inseparable suturing of the visual and the verbal, the imagetext incarnate

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From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever, That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.
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W. J. T. Mitchell

W. J. T. Mitchell

Born: March 24, 1942 (age 84)
Bio: William John Thomas Mitchell known as W.J.T. Mitchell is the Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor of English and Art History at the University of Chicago. He is also the editor of Critical Inquiry, and contributes to the journal October.
Known for:
  1. What Do Pictures Want? (2005)
  2. Iconology: Image, Text, Ideology (1986)
  3. The last dinosaur book (1998)

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