Representing the Passions

Representing the Passions
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Publisher : Getty Publications
Total Pages : 316
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ISBN-10 : 0892366761
ISBN-13 : 9780892366767
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Book Synopsis Representing the Passions by : Richard Evan Meyer

Download or read book Representing the Passions written by Richard Evan Meyer and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2003 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through an interlocking series of texts and images, this work explores how extreme sensations such as wonder, misery, ecstasy and rage have been portrayed at different moments in Western culture. Moving across multiple fields of creative endeavour and intellectual inquiry - from classical artefacts to Chicano art, political protest to operatic performance, Rene Descartes's writings on the soul to the Internet's digitised flesh - it reveals how the passions have elicited, eluded and transformed the act of representation.


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