Good looking : essays on the virtue of images /
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
Imprint: | Cambridge, Mass. : The MIT Press, [1996] |
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Retention: | Retained for Eastern Academic Scholars' Trust (EAST) http://eastlibraries.org/retained-materials |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Visual Pragmatism for a Virtual World
- 1. The Visualization of Knowledge from the Enlightenment to Postmodernism
- 2. Display and the Rhetoric of Corruption
- 3. The Eighteenth Century at the End of Modernity
- 4. The New Imagist
- 5. Making Images Real
- 6. Desperately Seeking Connections: Linking the Internet to Eighteenth-Century Laboratory Life
- 7. The Natural History of Design: Humbert de Superville and Postmodern Theory
- 8. An Image of One's Own
- 9. Medical Ethics as Postmodern Aesthetics
- 10. Picturing Ambiguity
- 11. Difficult Content, or the Pleasures of Viewing Pain
- Conclusion: Analogy in an Age of Difference.