Blindness: The History of a Mental Image in Western Thought

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Routledge, 2001. 4. 13. - 288페이지
This is a remarkable study of how Western culture has represented blindness, especially in that most visual of arts, painting. Moshe Barasch draws upon not only the span of art history from antiquity to the eighteenth century but also the classical and biblical traditions that underpin so much of artistic representation: Blind Homer, the healing of
 

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Antiquity
7
Causes of Blindness
18
The Blind in the Early Christian World
45
The Story of Paul
56
3
67
The Renaissance and Its Sequel
115
The Revival of the Blind Seer
130
Early Secularizations of the Blind
136
Notes
157
Index
181
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Moshe Barasch is Jack Cotton Professor of Architecture and Fine Arts at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of many books on art history and the theory of art. A winner of the Israel Prize in 1996, he was recently elected corresponding member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences.

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