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Vanities of the Eye - Vision in Early Modern European Culture (Paperback)
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Vanities of the Eye - Vision in Early Modern European Culture (Paperback)
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Vanities of the Eye investigates the cultural history of the senses
in early modern Europe, a time in which the nature and reliability
of human vision was the focus of much debate. In medicine, art
theory, science, religion, and philosophy, sight came to be
characterized as uncertain or paradoxical--mental images no longer
resembled the external world. Was seeing really believing?
Stuart Clark explores the controversial debates of the time--from
the fantasies and hallucinations of melancholia, to the illusions
of magic, art, demonic deceptions, and witchcraft. The truth and
function of religious images and the authenticity of miracles and
visions were also questioned with new vigor, affecting such
contemporary works as Macbeth-- a play deeply concerned with the
dangers of visual illusion. Clark also contends that there was a
close connection between these debates and the ways in which
philosophers such as Descartes and Hobbes developed new theories on
the relationship between the real and virtual.
Original, highly accessible, and a major contribution to our
understanding of European culture, Vanities of the Eye will be of
great interest to a wide range of historians and anyone interested
in the true nature of seeing.
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