The picture - - the simplest way to put it is to say that, - we still do not know exactly what pictures are, what their relation to language is, how they operate on observers and on the world, how their history is to be understood and what is to be done with or about them.
Picture Theory, W.J.T. Mitchell
University of Chicago Press, 1994
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