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Author_Moshe Barasch
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Blind Beggar
Blind Figures
Blind Harpists
Blind Person
Blind Seer
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Christ Ian
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Christian Topography
Diderot's Text
disability representation
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Early Christian Art
Early Christian Imagery
Early Christian World
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figures
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Hans Weiditz
historical epistemology
Homer's Blindness
iconography analysis
Internal Senses
Itinerant Beggar
Julius Held
man
Middle Age
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Pagan Goddess
Paul's Conversion
person
religious symbolism art
Rembrandt's Etching
Rembrandt's Figure
Ribera's Painting
sensory perception theory
Temporary Blindness
Uncanny Stories
visual culture studies
visual impairment in Western art
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Wicked City
Product details
- ISBN 9780415927420
- Weight: 408g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 13 Apr 2001
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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 the blind, blind musicians, blindness as punishment, blindness as a special mark. The book discusses blindness in antiquity, in the Early Christian world, in the Middle Ages, and in the Renaissance, with a final consideration of Diderot.
Moshe Barasch is Jack Cotton Professor of Architecture and Fine Arts at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of many books on art history and the theory of art. A winner of the Israel Prize in 1996, he was recently elected corresponding member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences.
