Art and the Committed Eye

The Cultural Functions of Imagery

AvRichard Leppert

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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This book examines Western European and American art from the fifteenth to the twentieth century. It discusses how meaning accrues to images and what role vision and visuality play in the history of modernity and explores art's relation to the material world.

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Utgivningsdatum:2020-12-07
Mått:187 x 237 x undefined mm
Vikt:453 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:364
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9780367154615

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Richard Leppert is professor and chair of the Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota. His most recent books include The Sight of Sound: Music, Representation, and the History of the Body (1993) and Music and Image (1988).

Innehållsförteckning

Part One: Sights/Sites for Seeing 0. Introduction 1. Representation and the Politics of Deception Part Two: Object 2. Still(ed) Life, Beauty, and Regimes of Power 3. Death as Object 4. Death and the Pleasures of Meat Part Three: Body 5. Sensing 6. Body Examination: Scalpel and Brush 7. Portrait: Dramatizing the Body 8. Others' Bodies: Class and Race 9. The Female Nude: Surfaces of Desire 10. The Male Nude: Identity and Denial