Visuality before and beyond the Renaissance : seeing as others saw / edited by Robert S. Nelson.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Nelson, Robert S., 1947-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, U.K. ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Series:	Cambridge studies in new art history and criticism
Subjects:	Visual perception. Visual communication. Art, Comparative. Art and religion.
Online Access:	Sample text Publisher description Table of contents

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Descartes's cow and other domestications of the visual / Robert S. Nelson
The eyes have it: votive statuary, Gilgamesh's axe, and cathected viewing in the ancient Near East / Irene J. Winter
Between mimesis and divine power: visuality in the Greco-Roman world / Ja's Elsner
The philosopher as Narcissus: vision, sexuality, and self-knowledge in classical antiquity / Shadi Bartsch
The pilgrim's gaze in the age before icons / Georgia Frank
Watching the steps: peripatetic vision in medieval China / Eugene Y. Wang
To say and to see: Ekphrasis and vision in Byzantium / Robert S. Nelson
Visio Dei: changes in medieval visuality / Cynthia Hahn
Before the gaze: the internal senses and late medieval practices of seeing / Michael Camille
Displaying secrets: visual piety in Senegal / Allen F. Roberts and Mary Nooter Roberts.

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