Art And The Committed Eye
The Cultural Functions Of Imagery
1st Edition
Published on 7. December 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
364 pages
978-0-367-15461-5 (ISBN)
Description
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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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 237 mm
Width: 187 mm
Weight
453 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-367-15461-5 (9780367154615)
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Person
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).
Content
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