The power of images : studies in the history and theory of response / David Freedberg.
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TextLanguage: English Publication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1989.Description: xxv, 534 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0226261441
- 701.15
Contents:
1. The power of images: response and repression -- 2. The God in the image -- 3. The value of the commonplace -- 4. The myth of aniconism -- 5. Consecration: making images work -- 6. Image and pilgrimage -- 7. The votive image: invoking favor and giving thanks -- 8. Invisibilia per visibilia: meditation and the uses of theory -- 9. Verisimilitude and resemblance: from sacred mountain to waxworks -- 10. Infamy, justice, and witchcraft: explanation, sympathy, and magic -- 11. Live images: the worth of visions and tales -- 12. Arousal by image -- 13. The senses and censorship -- Idolatry and iconoclasm -- 15. Representation and reality.
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| 700.938 NOR From myth to icon : | 700.938 VER Aspects of death in early Greek art and poetry / | 700.949512 WEB Art and literature in fourth century Athens / | 701.15 FRE The power of images : studies in the history and theory of response / | 701.17 ΜΙΧ v.1 Αισθητικά θεωρήματα / | 701.17 ΜΙΧ v.2 Αισθητικά θεωρήματα / | 702 SOU Η τέχνη των ανθρώπων = Building the arts / |
Includes index.
Bibliography: pages 507-517.
1. The power of images: response and repression -- 2. The God in the image -- 3. The value of the commonplace -- 4. The myth of aniconism -- 5. Consecration: making images work -- 6. Image and pilgrimage -- 7. The votive image: invoking favor and giving thanks -- 8. Invisibilia per visibilia: meditation and the uses of theory -- 9. Verisimilitude and resemblance: from sacred mountain to waxworks -- 10. Infamy, justice, and witchcraft: explanation, sympathy, and magic -- 11. Live images: the worth of visions and tales -- 12. Arousal by image -- 13. The senses and censorship -- Idolatry and iconoclasm -- 15. Representation and reality.