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“The great moment I think in human consciousness is when you realize that the object in front of you is perhaps not nameable or is new, it does not fit a stereotype, and so you need to reconfigure your whole structure of knowledge to account for it.”

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W. J. T. Mitchell

W. J. T. Mitchell is an influential scholar in the field of art history and visual culture. His research spans a wide range of topics from classical art to modern visual culture. more

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