Brain of the earth's body : art, museums, and the phantasms of modernity / Donald Preziosi.

Main entry:

Preziosi, Donald, 1941-

Title & Author:

Brain of the earth's body : art, museums, and the phantasms of modernity / Donald Preziosi.

Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2003.

Description:

xii, 175 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
"The 2001 Slade Lectures in the Fine Arts, Oxford University."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-164) and index.
Haunted by Things -- Practicing the Self -- Holy Terrors and Teleologies -- Romulus, Rebus, and the Gaze of Victoria -- The Astrolabe of the Enlightenment -- The Crystalline Veil and the Phallomorphic Imaginary -- The Museum of What You Shall Have Been -- The Limit(s) of (Re)presentation.

ISBN:

0816633576
9780816633579
0816633584 (pbk.)
9780816633586 (pbk.)

Subject:

Art Historiography.
Aesthetics.
Art museums Philosophy.
Art Museums Philosophy.
Art Historiographie.
Esthétique.
Art Musées Philosophie.
Ästhetik
Museumskunde
Museumkunde.
Esthetica.
Kunstmuseum.
Geschichte 1850-2000.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 228518
Call No.: N380.P67 2003
Status: External loan

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