Moshe Barasch

Blindness (eBook, ePUB)

The History of a Mental Image in Western Thought

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. April 2001
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136799754
• Artikelnr.: 39450520

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
I. Antiquity
Attitudes of the Bible
Classical Antiquity: Causes of blindness
Blindness and guilt
The blind seer
Ate
II.The Blind in the Early Christian World
The healing of the blind
Blindness and revelation: the story of Paul
A concluding observation
III. The Middle Ages
The Antichrist
Allegorical blindness
The blind beggar
The blind and his guide
IV. The Renaissance and its Sequel
The blind beggar
Metaphorical blindness
The revival of the blind seer
Early secularization of the blind
The blind beggar in the seventeenth century
V. The Disenchantment of Blindness: Diderot's Lettre sur les aveugles