Roland Betancourt

Sight, Touch, and Imagination in Byzantium

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Studies the interrelation of sight, touch, and the imagination in ancient and medieval Greek theories of perception and cognition.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 418
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 755g
• ISBN-13: 9781108424745
• ISBN-10: 1108424740
• Artikelnr.: 49297798

Autorenporträt

Roland Betancourt is an Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of California, Irvine. In the 2016-2017 academic year, he was the Elizabeth and J. Richardson Dilworth Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He has co-edited Byzantium/Modernism: The Byzantine as Method in Modernity (2015), and is the author of a forthcoming book on the intersectionality of race, sexuality, and gender identity in the medieval world.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Note to the reader
Introduction: can't touch this
Part I. How Sight Is Not Touch: 1. The medium of sight
2. The problem of tactility
3. The commonalities of the senses
Part II. Photios and the Unfolding of Perception: Introduction
4. Has the mind seen?: the language of effluxes
5. Has it grasped?: apprehending the object
6. Has it visualized?, I: the grasp of the imagination
7. Has it visualized?, II: the problem of fantasy
8. Then it has effortlessly ...: judgment and assent
Conclusion
Part III. Mediation, Veneration, Remediation: 9. Medium and mediation
10. Tactility and veneration
11. Synaesthesia and remediation
Conclusion: tempted to touch
Bibliography
Index.