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Light As Experience and Imagination from Medieval to Modern Times
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2022
Summary
In Light as Experience and Imagination from Medieval to Modern Times, David S. Herrstrom synthesizes and interprets the experience of light as revealed in a wide range of art and literature from medieval to modern times. The true subject of the book is making sense of the individual’s relationship with light, rather than the investigation of light’s essential nature, while telling the story of light “seducing” individuals from the Middle Ages to our modern times. Consequently, it is not concerned with the “progress” of scientific inquiries into the physical properties and behavior of light (optical science), but rather with subjective reactions as reflected in art, architecture, and literature. Instead of its evolution, this book celebrates the complexity of our relation to light’s character. No individual experience of light being “truer” than any other.
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Edition
1/2022
Copyright Year
2022
ISBN-Print
978-1-68393-363-2
ISBN-Online
978-1-68393-364-9
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
364
Product Type
Monograph
Table of contents
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access
Houses of Light No access Pages 1 - 48
Instrumental Light No access Pages 49 - 80
Untwisting the Shining Robe of Day No access Pages 81 - 122
Sublime Light No access Pages 123 - 160
Fields of Light No access Pages 161 - 194
Eloquences of Light No access Pages 195 - 236
The “Thingness” of Light No access Pages 237 - 282
