Optical Impersonality David Neiwert As artists

As artists

and Chicago

a leading economic historian of the Italian Renaissance

and yet haunted by a vision of unity

Huang recommends a blend of the virtues inherent in both cultures

Optical Impersonality David Neiwert As artistsWestern accounts of human vision before the nineteenth century tended to separate the bodily eye from the rational mind. This model gave way in the mid nineteenth century to one in which the thinking subject, perceiving body, perceptual object, and material world could not be so easily separated. Christina Walter explores how this new physiology of vision provoked writers to reconceive the relations among image, text, sight, and subjectivity. Walter