Wooden Eyes : Nine Reflections on Distance
Carlo Ginzburg
None pages, Hardcover
ISBN: 1859846378
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Language: English
Publish: January 1, 2002
Ginzburg’s new book is a thought-provoking study of the various meanings of distance. Opening with a defamiliarization, which traces the roots of the idea in classical and enlightenment culture, he moves on to explorations of the concepts of perspective, representation, imagery and myth.