HISTORY AND ITS IMAGES.

Over the last four centuries, historians have turned to images in their attempts to understand and visualize the past. In this book, an art historian surveys th

Over the last four centuries, historians have increasingly turned to images in their attempts to understand and visualize the past. In this wide-ranging and eng

The operative role of the photographic media in making and remaking history History is increasingly made in images, not only because its records are largely pho

Developing work in the theories of action and explanation, Eldridge argues that moral and political philosophers require accounts of what is historically possib

This book was ground-breaking for its time because of Freedberg's insistence on a new? approach to the study of images that focused on writing biographies of pa

In the past twenty years, work on the local culture of central Hunan has been one of the most exciting sources for rethinking the nature and variety of Chinese

According to Didi-Huberman, visual representation has an "underside" in which intelligible forms lose clarity and defy rational understanding. Art historians, h