Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies 1 ~thics and Images of Pain ~dited by Asbjørn Grønstad and Henrik Gustafsson 2 Meanings of Abstract Art Between Nature and Theory Edited by Paul Crowther and Isabel Wünsche 3 Genealogy and Ontology of the Western Image and its Digital Future John Lechte 4 Representations of Pain in Art and Visual Culture Edited by Maria Pia Di Bella and James Elkins 5 Manga’s Cultural Crossroads Edited by Jaqueline Berndt and Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer 6 Mobility and Fantasy in Visual Culture Edited by Lewis Johnson 7 Spiritual Art and Art Education Janis Lander 8 Art in the Asia-Pacific Intimate Publics Edited by Larissa Hjorth, Natalie King, and Mami Kataoka 9 Performing Beauty in Participatory Art and Culture Falk Heinrich 10 The Uses of Art in Public Space Edited by Julia Lossau and Quentin Stevens 11 On Not Looking The Paradox of Contemporary Visual Culture Edited by Frances Guerin 12 Play and Participation in Contemporary Arts Practices Tim Stott 13 Urbanization and Contemporary Chinese Art Meiqin Wang 14 Photography and Place Seeing and Not Seeing Germany After 1945 Donna West Brett 15 How Folklore Shaped Modern Art A Post-Critical History of Aesthetics Wes Hill 16 Installation Art and the Practices of Archivalism David Houston Jones 17 Collaborative Art in the Twenty-First Century Edited by Sondra Bacharach, Jeremy Neil Booth and Siv B. Fjærstad 18 Gestures of Seeing in Film, Video and Drawing Edited by Asbjørn Grønstad, Henrik Gustafsson and Øyvind Vågnes 19 Looking Beyond Borderlines North America’s Frontier Imagination Lee Rodney 20 Intersecting Art and Technology in Practice Techne/Technique/Technology Edited by Camille C Baker and Kate Sicchio 21 Wonder in Contemporary Art Practice Edited by Christian Mieves and Irene Brown 22 W.J.T. Among his recent titles is the co-edited volume Theorizing Images (2016), as well as the articles “Coming to Terms with Images: Visual Studies and Beyond” (2016) and “What is not an Image (Anymore)? Iconic Difference, Immersion, and Iconic Simultaneity in the Age of Screens” (2015). Krešimir Purgar is Assistant Professor of Visual Studies at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. As a special feature, the book includes three comprehensive, authoritative and theoretically relevant interviews with Mitchell that focus on different stages of development of visual studies and critical iconology. This book will help both students and seasoned scholars to understand key terms in visual studies – pictorial turn, metapictures, literary iconology, image/text, biopictures or living pictures, among many others – while systematically presenting the work of Mitchell as one of the discipline’s founders and most prominent figures. His concept of the pictorial turn is known worldwide for having set new philosophical paradigms in dealing with our vernacular visual world. Mitchell – one of the founders of visual studies – has been at the forefront of many disciplines such as iconology, art history and media studies.