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"...a highly original work of great subtlety and distinction, soaked in visual culture, which presents a striking challenge to many of our ready assumptions about the pictorial arts....It investigates the most general conditions of pictorial perception, but it combines this with observations that open our eyes to the fine detail of individual works. It draws our attention to the social conditions in which particular paintings were produced, but it asks us to look at the paintings themselves with the eyes of--to use Berenson's phrase--the passionate sightseer....[it] is not philosophical aesthetics, nor is it art history, nor is it art criticism, nor is it art theory. This is no small part of its originality."Podro, Michael is the author of 'Depiction' with ISBN 9780300069143 and ISBN 0300069146.
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