The Power of Images

"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. Da...

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"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, "Wilson Quarterly"

David Freedberg is Pierre Matisse Professor of the History of Art and Director of The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University. His books include The Power of Images: Studies in the History and Theory of Response, also published by the University of Chicago Press; The Prints of Bruegel the Elder; Art in History, History in Art: Studies in Seventeen...

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David Freedberg is Pierre Matisse Professor of the History of Art and Director of The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University. His books include The Power of Images: Studies in the History and Theory of Response, also published by the University of Chicago Press; The Prints of Bruegel the Elder; Art in History, History in Art: Studies in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Culture (with Jan de Vries); Rubens: The Life of Christ after the Passion; and Dutch Landscape Prints of the Seventeenth Century. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the American Philosophical Society as well as of the Accademia Nazionale di Agricultura and the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere e Arti.

List of Illustrations
Preface
Introduction
1. The Power of Images: Response and Repression
2. The God in the Image
3. The Value of the Commonplace
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List of Illustrations
Preface
Introduction
1. The Power of Images: Response and Repression
2. The God in the Image
3. The Value of the Commonplace
4. The Myth of Aniconism
5. Consecration: Making Images Work
6. Image and Pilgrimage
7. The Votive Image: Invoking Favor and Giving Thanks
8. Invisibilia per visibilia: Meditation and the Uses of Theory
9. Verisimilitude and Resemblance: From Sacred Mountain to Waxworks
10. Infamy, Justice, and Witchcraft: Explanation, Sympathy, and Magic
11. Live Images: The Worth of Visions and Tales
12. Arousal by Image
13. The Senses and Censorship
14. Idolatry and Iconoclasm
15. Representation and Reality
Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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