Visuality before and beyond the Renaissance seeing as others saw
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Cambridge New York
Cambridge University Press
2000
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in new art history and criticism
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Table of 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
