The Essence Of W·J·T Michel’s Image Theory And The Research Of Its Theory Steering

W.J.T Michelle is an important representative figure in the field of image,In today’s society,the image is developing rapidly,There are many different understanding about the image.Image thinking is beyond the single subject,become the research emphasis of many disciplines,especially since the recent decades.The development of image science is not only in the academic field,but also in the field of daily life.W.J.T Michelle’s visual culture theories,especially pictorial turn,are well known in China.However,he also encountered many misunderstanding.W.J.T Michelle’s theories are trans-disciplinary and he is not only a literary researcher,but also an art historian.He is famous for Pictorial Turn in the world.The article bases on W.J.T Michelle’s iconological theories and studies his iconology,Pictorial turn theory and visual culture studies.W.J.T Michelle has many book on the theory of the image,The book Iconology and Picture Theory and What do Picture Want are the most important works.The first part of the article is Introduction.It introduces Michelle’s experiences,theory backgrounds,research status and purpose and meaning.The first chapter discusses Erwin Panofsky’s iconological studies on image and E.H Gombrich’s iconological studies on image.The second chapter discusses Michelle’s iconology.Through studying Panofsky’s iconological and Gombrich’s iconological,Michelle put forward Critical Iconology to make difference with traditional iconology.The third chapter is W.J.T Michelle’s Pictorial Turn.The last part is conclusions.It concludes the characteristics and significance of Michelle’s visual culture and pictorial turn.