Description
Studies the interrelation of sight, touch, and the imagination in ancient and medieval Greek theories of perception and cognition.
About the Author
Roland Betancourt is an Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of California, Irvine. In the 2016-2017 academic year, he was the Elizabeth and J. Richardson Dilworth Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He has co-edited Byzantium/Modernism: The Byzantine as Method in Modernity (2015), and is the author of a forthcoming book on the intersectionality of race, sexuality, and gender identity in the medieval world.
Reviews
'This is a very learned and important book, with significant ramifications for thinking about sight and touch, aesthetics, the cultural history of vision, the historiography of Byzantine art and continuity/shift between the classical world and Byzantium. Betancourt shows better than all previous scholarship how theories of vision/touch grow out of their classical intellectual archaeology.' Jas' Elsner, Humphrey Payne Senior Research Fellow in Classical Art, Corpus Christi College, Oxford
Book Information
ISBN 9781108440899
Author Roland Betancourt
Format Paperback
Page Count 417
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 602g
Dimensions(mm) 235mm * 157mm * 17mm