WYD Mitchell

William John Thomas Mitchell (* 1942 ) is an American art historian . He is Professor of English and History of Art at the University of Chicago .

Mitchell is internationally recognized as one of the leading theorists in the field of image science , especially his monographs Iconology (1986) and Picture Theory (1994). He is the editor of Critical Inquiry and October contributor .

In 2004/2005 Mitchell was a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin . In 2008, two books by Mitchell appeared in German for the first time. In 2014 he was elected to the American Philosophical Society and in 2017 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

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English editions

Cloning terror. The War of Images. 9/11 to the present . University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, USA 2011, ISBN 978-0-226-53260-8 .
What do Pictures Want? the Lives and Loves of Images. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL 2005. Review
The Last Dinosaur Book: The Life and Times of a Cultural Icon. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL 1998.
Picture Theory: Essays on Verbal and Visual Representation. University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1994.
Iconology: Image, Text, Ideology. University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1986.
Against Theory: Literary Studies and the New Pragmatism. University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1985.
The Politics of Interpretation. University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1983.
On Narrative . University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1981. Review
The Language of Images. University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1980.
Blake's Composite Art: A Study of the Illuminated Poetry. Princeton UP, Princeton 1978.
Cary Wolfe, WJT Mitchell. Animal Rites: American Culture, the Discourse of Species and Posthumanist Theory. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL 2003, ISBN 0-226-90513-6 .

German editions

The cloning and the terror. The war of images since 9/11. translated by Michael Bischoff . Suhrkamp, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-518-58569-6 .
Image theory. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-518-58494-1 .
The life of the pictures. A theory of visual culture. With a foreword by Hans Belting . Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-57359-0 .

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personal data
SURNAME	Mitchell, WYD
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Mitchell, William John Thomas (full name); Mitchell, WJ Thomas; Mitchell, WJ; Mitchell, William J. Thomas; Mitchell, William J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American English scholar, art historian and comparativeist
DATE OF BIRTH	1942