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Moshe Barasch
Blindness [PDF ebook]
The History of a Mental Image in Western Thought

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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

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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 288 ● ISBN 9781136799761 ● Publisher Taylor and Francis ● Published 2001 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 2775492 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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