The Power of Images: Studies in the History and Theory of Response

by David Freedberg (Author), David Freedberg (Author)

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  Illustrated
  1991

  $36.33

  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