Representation
1. the action of speaking or acting on
behalf of someone or the state of being so represented.
2. the description or portrayal of
someone or something in a particular way.
o the
depiction of someone or something in a work of art.
o a
picture, model, or other depiction of someone or something.
o (in some theories of perception) a mental
state or concept regarded as corresponding to a thing perceived.
3.formal statements made to an
authority, especially so as to communicate an opinion or register a protest.
o a
statement or allegation.
How does it relate to visual? See above (number 2):
Representation of Zeus as a realistic person/god (left), a caricature of Zeus aimed at a specific target
audience (right).
Picture Theory: ESSAYS ON
VERBAL AND VISUAL REPRESENTATION - W. J. T.
Mitchell
What precisely, W. J. T. Mitchell asks, are
pictures (and theories of pictures) doing now, in the late twentieth century,
when the power of the visual is said to be greater than ever before, and the
"pictorial turn" supplants the "linguistic turn" in the
study of culture? This book by one of America's leading theorists of visual
representation offers a rich account of the interplay between the visible and
the readable across culture, from literature to visual art to the mass media.
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Intertextuality
The relationship
between texts, especially literary ones.
How does it relate to visual?
Referencing other works within a text or visual media:
i.e. a parody or associationA parody of the Mona Lisa by visually
referencing Squidward, a children’s cartoon character.
Theory: Inevitability of arts from inter-textuality by Mohammad
Khosravi Shakib
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