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
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