Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Cambridge, U.K. ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Description:

xiv, 269 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.

Series:

Cambridge studies in new art history and criticism

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-260) and index.
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.

Summary:

"Visuality Before and Beyond the Renaissance examines the phenomenon of "seeing" through a study of art works from Ancient Mesopotamia, China, and Africa and of European works ranging from antiquity to the early modern period. It demonstrates that in ancient and distant societies, the act of seeing has been and is understood in diverse ways with consequences for the production of art, the practice of religion, and the individual's perception of the world and the self. Treating diverse cultures and using a variety of methods from the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, this book exposes the cultural contexts in which visual perception develops."--Jacket.

Resources:
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ISBN:

0521652227 (hardback)
9780521652223 (hardback)

Subject:

Visual perception.
Visual communication.
Art, Comparative.
Art and religion.
Anamorphosis (Visual perception)
Visual Perception
Anamorphose.
Communication visuelle.
Art comparé.
Art et religion.
Perception visuelle.
visual perception.
Percezione visiva e arte.
Vergleichende Kunstwissenschaft
Visuelle Wahrnehmung
Kunst
Beeldende kunsten.
Visuele waarneming.
Art Histoire Études transculturelles.
Visualisation Dans l'art.

Added entries:

Nelson, Robert S., 1947-
Cambridge studies in new art history and criticism.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 214919
Call No.: N7430.5 .V5 2000
Status: Available