num_pages: 560
description: This learned and heavy volume should be placed on the shelves of every art historical library.E. H. Gombrich New York Review of BooksThis 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 The Art BulletinFreedberg's ethnographic and historical range is simply stunning. . . . The Power of Images 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 Wilson QuarterlyFreedberg 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 Times Literary Supplement
language: English
title: The Power of Images: Studies in the History and Theory of Response
publisher: University of Chicago Press