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This is a book about the things people say about images. It is not primarily concerned with specific pictures and the things people say about them, but rather with the way we talk about the “idea” of imagery, and all its related notions of picturing, imagining, perceiving, likening, and imitating.

In his introduction, the author promises to answer two questions: 'What is an image?' and 'what is the difference between images and words’. However, soon, he confesses that he is not so much out at providing a 'new or better definition’ of the image, as rather to examine the ideologies responsible for the opposition of image and word. Alternatively, to put it with the introduction of 'Picture theory': 'to picture theory' - to analyze the ideology of the image - rather than to construct a 'picture theory’.  Below, we will concentrate not so much on these ideological analyses, which are often quite illuminating, as rather on the presuppositions on which they are built.

The book titled ““Iconology: Image, Text, Ideology” By W.J.T Mitchell,” is the 39th  in a series of publications by Bahrain Culture Authority.

 The first book was “ Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy by Simon Blackburn”, “Did Greeks Believe in their Myths?” by the French intellectual Paul Veyne, and Maurice Olender, The Languages of Paradise: Race, Religion, and Philology in the Nineteenth Century”, and “ Psychoanalysis as a Science, Therapy and Cause” by the  Egyptian psychoanalyst living in France, Mustapha Safwan. and “Non-Places: An Introduction to Supermodernity” by  Marc Augé and Three ABCs by Clarisse Herrenschmidt, “The End of the World as We Know it”  by the American Sociologist Immanuel Wallerstein, “The Story of Art” by Ernest Gombrich, “A Social History of the Media: From Gutenberg to the Internet” by n  Asa Briggs and Peter Burke, “Einstein, Picasso: Space, Time, and the Beauty That Causes Havoc” by Arthur Miller, “The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation” by Hayden White, “ Ethnology Approach” by Pacal Debie, and “Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity” by  Marc Augé, Qu'est-ce que le virtuel ? by Pierre Levy, and “ Should We Think of the World in Another Way” by Chritian Gratello, “The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity Paperback”, “Sociology of Religion” by Amartya Sen, Danièle. Hervieu-Léger, Jean-Paul Willaime “Sociology of Religion”, Irwin Dianatelle and Michael Louis,  Discourse Analysis as Theory and Method”Marianne W Jorgensen ““ History at the Limit of World History” by Ranajit Guha, “ The World of Thought in China Today” by Lan Chung”, “How to Do Things with Words” by John L. Austin, “Beyond Nature and Culture” by Philippe Descola, “Les Philosophes et la science” by  Pierre Wagner, “The Birth of the Museum: History, Theory, Politics” by Tony Bennett and “ Digital Anthropology” by  Heather A. Horst, Daniel Miller and  “ The Meaning of Life” by Terry Eagleton