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Hardcover How Pictures Complete Us: The Beautiful, the Sublime, and the Divine Book

ISBN: 0804795738

ISBN13: 9780804795739

How Pictures Complete Us: The Beautiful, the Sublime, and the Divine

Despite the wonders of the digital world, people still go in record numbers to view drawings and paintings in galleries. Why? What is the magic that pictures work on us? This book provides a provocative explanation, arguing that some pictures have special kinds of beauty and sublimity that offer aesthetic transcendence. They take us imaginatively beyond our finite limits and even invoke a sense of the divine. Such aesthetic transcendence forges...

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