Body Criticism: Imaging the Unseen in Enlightenment Art and Medicine - Couverture souple

Stafford, Barbara Maria

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0262691655 ISBN 13 : 9780262691659

Editeur : The MIT Press, 1993

Synopsis

In this erudite and profusely illustrated history of perception, Barbara Stafford explores a remarkable set of body metaphors deriving from both aesthetic and medical practices that were developed during the enlightenment for making visible the unseeable aspects of the world. While she focuses on these metaphors as a reflection of the changing attitudes toward the human body during the period of birth of the modern world, she also presents a strong argument for our need to recognize the occurrence of a profound revolution—a radical shift from a textbased to a visually centered culture. Stafford agues, in fact, that modern societies need to develop innovative, nonlinguistic paradigms and to train a broad public in visual aptitude.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Barbara Stafford is the William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor of Art History at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Good Looking, Artful Science, Body Criticism, and Voyage into Substance (all published by MIT Press).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The MIT Press
• Date d'édition: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0262691655
• ISBN 13: 9780262691659
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 587
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