On Seeing Things Seen, Unseen, and Obscene

Name: On Seeing Things Seen, Unseen, and Obscene
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ISBN: 9781585676743

ISBN-10: 1585676748

ISBN-13: 9781585676743

Edition: 2006

Authors: F. Gonzalez-Crussi

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A probing and profoundly insightful literary meditation on vision exploring the breadth of fascinating phenomena associated with seeing afrom the award winning author.

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Overlook Press, The
Publication date: 4/6/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Female Genitals: Men's Foremost Visual Taboo


Eyes on Privities



Corollary


The Body as Will and Representation



The Body, Viewed from Inside



The Body, Glimpsed from Outside


Seeing is Believing, and Believing is Seeing



Images as the Source of Chaos, Disharmony, and Sin



Images and "Last Sights": The Search for Inner Peace, Piety, and Salvation


More Power to the Gaze


That Perception is Tendentious


Specular Vision: Three Ways of Looking at the Mirror



Through Distorting Glass Mirrors, Darkly



Through a Regular, Clear Mirror: Its Uses and Abuses



The Tool of Self Inspection: Uses and Abuses


The Threatening Unseen, or Half Seen: Blurred Eyesight in Renaissance French Literature


The Clinical Eye



Macroscopy and the Medical Gaze



Microscopy, With Some Personal Reminiscences


Notes


List of Illustrations