The Power of Images - Studies in the History and Theory of Response (Paperback, 2nd ed.)

This learned and heavy volume should be placed on the shelves of every art historical library.--E. H. Gombrich, New York Review of Books This is an engaged and passionate work by a writer with powerful convictions about art, images, aesthetics, the art establishment, and especially the discipline of art history. It is animated by an extraordinary erudition.--Arthur C. Danto, The Art Bulletin Freedberg's ethnographic and historical range is simply stunning. . . . The Power of Images is an extraordinary critical achievement, exhilarating in its polemic against aesthetic orthodoxy, endlessly fascinating in its details. . . . This is a powerful, disturbing book.--T. J. Jackson Lears, Wilson Quarterly Freedberg helps us to see that one cannot do justice to the images of art unless one recognizes in them the entire range of human responses, from the lowly impulses prevailing in popular imagery to their refinement in the great visions of the ages.--Rudolf Arnheim, Times Literary Supplement

General

Imprint:	University of Chicago Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	May 1991
First published:	May 1991
Authors:	David Freedberg
Dimensions:	237 x 168 x 4mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	560
Edition:	2nd ed.
ISBN-13:	978-0-226-26146-1
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > The arts: general issues > Theory of art
LSN:	0-226-26146-8
Barcode:	9780226261461

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