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Fear Reverence Terror

By Carlo Ginzburg

Fear Reverence Terror Media & Communication

Fear Reverence Terror

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An invitation to slow down our looking and attend to the power structures embedded in images. 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.

Fear, Reverence, Terror 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, and 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? Fear, Reverence, Terror will answer this question.
Product details
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
208
Release Date:
2017-08-15
Publication Date:
2017-08-15
Publisher:
Seagull Books
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0857424351
ISBN13:
9780857424358
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
656 g
Height:
167 cm
Width:
202 cm
Thickness:
30 cm
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