The power of images : studies in the history and theory of response
- Author
- Freedberg, David
- Document type
- Livre
- Language
English
- Source
- 189 ill.; bibliogr.; index ; xxv, 534 p. ; 1989
- ISBN
- 0226261441
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press, Chicago (usa)
- Publication country
- United States
- Abstract (en)
- Analyzes the ways that people of all classes and cultures have responded to images, including (but not restricted to) works of art. These include: the consecration of images and their use in devotion and pilgrimage; the role of images in infamy, justice and witchcraft; sexual arousal by image; censorship and iconoclasm. Discusses the role of illusionism in the psychology of response. Proposes a methodology of art history that eliminates the distinction between "high" and "low" response and between so-called primitive and Western attitudes.
- Subject (en)
- Subject (fr)
- Origin
DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)
Identifier19910101-00448821
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