Vanities of the Eye
Vision in Early Modern European Culture
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 29 March 2007
- ISBN 9780199250134
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages444 pages
- Size 240x165x27 mm
- Weight 889 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 27 halftones 0
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Short description:
In this original and fascinating book, Stuart Clark investigates the cultural history of the senses in early modern Europe. At a time in which the nature and reliability of human vision was a focus for debate in medicine, art theory, science, and philosophy, there was an explosion of interest in the truth (or otherwise) of miracles, dreams, magic, and witchcraft. Was seeing really believing? Vanities of the Eye wonderfully illustrates how this was woven into contemporary works such as Macbeth - deeply concerned with the dangers of visual illusion - and exposes early modern theories on the relationship between the real and the virtual.
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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 characterised 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 vigour, 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.
[A] densely argued work.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Species: Vision and values
Fantasies: Seeing without what was within
Prestiges: Illusions in magic and art
Glamours: Demons and virtual worlds
Images: The reformation of the eyes
Apparitions: The discernment of spirits
Sights: King Saul and King Macbeth
Seemings: Philosophical scepticism
Dreams: The epistemology of sleep
Signs: Vision and the new philosophy
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