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Fear, reverence, terror : five essays in political iconography
- Title
- Fear, reverence, terror : five essays in political iconography / Carlo Ginzburg.
- Author
- Ginzburg, Carlo
- Publication
- Calcutta ; New York : Seagull Books, 2017.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | N72.P6 G56 2017g | Off-site |
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- Description
- xviii, 250 pages; 20 cm.
- Summary
- We are surrounded by images, fairly drowning in them. From our cell phones to our computers, from our televisions at home to the screens that light up while we wait in the grocery store checkout line, images of all kinds are seducing us, commanding us to buy!, scaring us, dazzling us. Ginzburg invites us to look at images slowly, with the help of a few examples: Picasso's Guernica, the "Lord Kitchener Wants You" World War I recruitment poster, Jacques-Louis David's Marat, the frontispiece of Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan, a cup of gilded silver with scenes from the conquest of the New World. Are these political images, Carlo Ginzburg asks? Yes, because every image is, in a sense, political an instrument of power. Tacitus once wrote, unforgettably, that we are enslaved by lies of which we ourselves are the authors. Is it possible to break this bond? Original title: Paura reverenza terrore, ISBN 9788845930041, 2015.
- Series Statement
- The Italian list
- Uniform Title
- Italian list.
- Subject
- Art > Political aspects
- ISBN
- 9780857424358
- 0857424351
- LCCN
- 40027312271
- OCLC
- 994467130
- ocn994467130
- SCSB-9618435
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries