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Title:

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

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

2000

Description:

xiv, 269 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.

Subject:

Visual perception.
Visual communication.
Art, Comparative.
Art and religion.

Other Authors:

Nelson, Robert S., 1947-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-260) and index.

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.

Series:

Cambridge studies in new art history and criticism

ISBN:

9780521652223 (hardback)
0521652227 (hardback)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)42690133

LCCN:

99053249

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)