The color of angels
Subtitle: cosmology, gender, and the aesthetic imagination
By: Constance Classen.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1998
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
Subjects: Senses and sensation -- Sex differences -- History; Senses and sensation -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History; Senses and sensation in art -- History
Description: This text looks at the symbolism of the senses which animated the cosmos before the modern scientific view of the world came to dominate, revealing the gender politics behind such sensory constructs as the male gaze and the female touch.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-228) and index.