Author: Ellen Spolsky
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 0838755429
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
"The essays in this collection expand the boundaries of inter-art studies, claiming that human beings have evolved to draw nourishment from pictures. Ellen Spolsky argues in a polemical introduction that the recognition of our embodied need for pictures, that is, our human iconotropism, provides a fresh way of understanding the relationship of works of art to their historical contexts."--Jacket.