Refiguring the Real by Christopher Braider

Princeton University Press
Refiguring the Real by Christopher Braider
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  • Title: Refiguring the Real by Christopher Braider
  • Author: Christopher Braider
  • Publisher: Princeton University Press
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • History of art art & design styles
  • No. of pages: 338
  • Dimensions (approx. mm): 235 x 152

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In a major analysis of pictorial forms from the late Middle Ages to the Enlightenment Christopher Braider argues that the painted image provides a metaphor and model for all other modes of expression in Western culture--particularly literature philosophy religion and science. Because critics have conventionally explained visual images in terms