Abstract
W. J. T. Mitchell, professor de história da arte e de Inglês na Universidade de Chicago, é editor do periódico Critical Inquiry e autor de diversos livros e artigos. Focando seus estudos na problematização da interface entre visão e linguagem nas artes plásticas, na literatura e na mídia, Mitchell propõe métodos bastante originais de se abordar as imagens, construindo novas perspectivas para o que ele denomina, seguindo Panofsky, uma Iconologia. Em suas reflexões, cunhou a difundida expressão “virada imagética” (pictorial turn).
Highlights
[...] não é o fato de termos um poderoso modelo das representações visuais que estaria ditando os termos da teoria cultural, mas sim que as imagens constituem um ponto de peculiar fricção e desconforto junto a uma larga faixa de questionamentos intelectuais
“Como o Deus do Monoteísmo, como a ‘Matrix’ da ficção científica moderna, a mídia está em todos os lugares e em nenhum lugar” (2005, p. 216)
We would like to begin this interview saying that it was an honor having you here visiting our country in the occasion of the congress Image crisis or theory crisis? last year
Summary
We would like to begin this interview saying that it was an honor having you here visiting our country in the occasion of the congress Image crisis or theory crisis? last year. My method emphasizes historical particularity of time and place on the one hand, and on the other, attempts to describe the underlying ontological and phenomenological characteristics of words and images that seem to endure throughout history, making it possible for us to make at least partial sense of things (like the Lascaux cave paintings) that are unimaginably distant from us. When it comes to history, I want to emphasize anachronism, the tendency of human artifices to leap out of their “period” into ours or someone else’s, and to show us how “the time is out of joint”.
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