Blindness: The History of a Mental Image in Western ThoughtRoutledge, 13 apr. 2001 - 288 sidor 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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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 |
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Blindness: The History of a Mental Image in Western Thought Moshe Barasch Begränsad förhandsgranskning - 2001 |
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Blindness: The History of a Mental Image in Western Thought Moshe Barasch Ingen förhandsgranskning - 2001 |
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altogether ancient Antichrist Apollodorus appearance artists Asclepius attitude audiences baroque belief blind beggar blind figure blind Homer blind man's blind person blind seer blindfold Book of Tobit catacomb Catacomb of Domitilla character characteristic Christ Church classical classical antiquity connotations context darkness Death demonic depicted Diderot divine early Christian Erwin Panofsky Euripides evoked expressed eyes eyesight Fortuna fresco gesture goddess gods Greek guilt hand healing Ibid imagery imagination l'aveugle late antiquity late medieval late Middle Ages Lettre literature mainly means mental image metaphor mind miraculous motif Museo Sacro narrative nature Oedipus original painting Paris particular Paul Paul's perceived period personifications pictorial play Plutarch Polymestor Princeton punishment Renaissance representation represented ritual says scene seen sense of touch shape sight specific story suggest supernatural Synagogue Teiresias Teiresias's temporary blindness Testament theme tion Tobit tradition understanding University Press veil vision visual arts Walters Art Museum