The Forbidden Image

The Forbidden Image
Author: Alain Besançon
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 431
Release: 2000
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0226044130

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This book discusses the privileging and prohibition of religious images over two and a half millennia in the West.


The Forbidden Image
Language: en
Pages: 431
Authors: Alain Besançon
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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This book discusses the privileging and prohibition of religious images over two and a half millennia in the West.
Forbidden Aesthetics, Ethical Justice, and Terror in Modern Western Culture
Language: en
Pages: 184
Authors: Emmanouil Aretoulakis
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-05-19 - Publisher: Lexington Books

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Forbidden Aesthetics, Ethical Justice, and Terror in Modern Western Culture explores the subjective experience of the beautiful in the face of terror and human
Forbidden images. A longitudinal research project on the history of the Belgian Board of Film Classification (1920-2003)
Language: en
Pages: 57
The Forbidden Fruit & The Tree of Knowledge
Language: en
Pages: 274
Authors: Blake C. Erickson
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-09-24 - Publisher: Lulu.com

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As a human being living in today's reality, information is readily available for interpretation and subjectivism. The information provided in this book may caus
The Ground of the Image
Language: en
Pages: 176
Authors: Jean-Luc Nancy
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-08-25 - Publisher: Fordham University Press

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If anything marks the image, it is a deep ambivalence. Denounced as superficial, illusory, and groundless, images are at the same time attributed with exorbitan