Title: The sight of death
First published: 2006
Description: Why do we keep returning to certain pictures? What is it we are looking for? How does our understanding of an image change over time? This investigates the nature of visual complexity, the capacity of certain images to sustain repeated attention, and how pictures respond and resist their viewers' wishes.
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation, Landscape in art, Painting, Psychology, Landscapes in art, Poussin, nicolas, 1594-1665, Psychological aspects, Art, psychology, Critique et interprétation, Paysage dans l'art, Peinture, Psychologie
People: Nicolas Poussin (1594?-1665)