November, 2011
What is an image?
First of all, we should admit that the term of an image is not clear at all, because of the variety of things which go by this name. And, as some of us may think, it‘s not the problem of english language, because the english language has many words to name visual icons: an image, an icon, a picture, a spectacle, a view, an imago, a simulacrum, a vision, a sight and others. ‚An image‘ is simply very wide term.
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An image. The ideological aspect
Instead of analyzing the similarities between an image and a text, linguistic message or language, Thomas Mitchell tends to ask what are the differences between them. His book ‘Iconology. Image, Text, Ideology’ reflects two most important questions: what is an image; and what is the difference between images and words.
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