W. J. T. Mitchell, born in 1942 in Anaheim, California, is Professor of English and Art History at the University of Chicago. He is the editor of Critical Inquiry and author of a number of significant books including Seeing through Race (2012), Cloning Terror: The War of Images, 9/11 to the Present (2011), What Do Pictures Want? The Lives and Loves of Images (2005), and Picture Theory: Essays on Verbal and Visual Representation (1994).
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