{"product_id":"the-power-of-images-studies-in-the-history-and-theory-of-response-9780226261461","title":"The Power of Images: Studies in the History and Theory of Response","description":"\"This learned and heavy volume should be placed on the shelves of every art historical library.\"-E. H. Gombrich, \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"This is an engaged and passionate work by a writer with powerful convictions about art, images, aesthetics, the art establishment, and especially the discipline of art history. It is animated by an extraordinary erudition.\"-Arthur C. Danto, \u003ci\u003eThe Art Bulletin\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Freedberg's ethnographic and historical range is simply stunning. . . . \u003ci\u003eThe Power of Images\u003c\/i\u003e is an extraordinary critical achievement, exhilarating in its polemic against aesthetic orthodoxy, endlessly fascinating in its details. . . . This is a powerful, disturbing book.\"-T. J. Jackson Lears, \u003ci\u003eWilson Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Freedberg helps us to see that one cannot do justice to the images of art unless one recognizes in them the entire range of human responses, from the lowly impulses prevailing in popular imagery to their refinement in the great visions of the ages.\"-Rudolf Arnheim, \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFreedberg, David:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eDavid Freedberg\u003c\/b\u003e is Pierre Matisse Professor of the History of Art and Director of The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University. His books include \u003ci\u003eThe Power of Images: Studies in the History and Theory of Response\u003c\/i\u003e, also published by the University of Chicago Press;\u003ci\u003e The Prints of Bruegel the Elder\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eArt in History, History in Art: Studies in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Culture\u003c\/i\u003e (with Jan de Vries); \u003ci\u003eRubens: The Life of Christ after the Passion\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eDutch Landscape Prints of the Seventeenth Century\u003c\/i\u003e. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the American Philosophical Society as well as of the Accademia Nazionale di Agricultura and the Istituto Veneto \u003cbr\u003e di Scienze, Lettere e Arti.","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50491624915218,"sku":"9780226261461","price":31.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7fae4986-28ea-4a54-99c7-2b315679dd2a.jpg?v=1730544956","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-power-of-images-studies-in-the-history-and-theory-of-response-9780226261461","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}