On seeing
Subtitle: things seen, unseen, and obscene
By: F. González-Crussi.
Publisher: Overlook Duckworth
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9781585676743; 9781585678389; 9780715635360; 9780715635865
Subjects: Vision -- Popular works; Vision; Vision -- Popular Works; Visual Perception -- Popular Works
Genres: Popular works.; Popular Works.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-234).
Table of contents: title: Female genitals: men's foremost visual taboo; title: Eyes on privities; title: The body as will and representation; title: Seeing is believing, and believing is seeing; title: More power to the gaze; title: That perception is tendentious; title: Specular vision: three ways of looking at the mirror; title: The threatening unseen, or half seen: blurred eyesight in Renaissance French literature; title: The clinical eye.