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Thoughtful Images: Illustrating Philosophy Through Art

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Thoughtful Images: Illustrating Philosophy Through Art - Wartenberg, Thomas E
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"Thoughtful Images: Philosophy Illustrated is the first systematic investigation of how artists throughout the ages have illustrated philosophical texts, ideas, concepts, and theories. The book begins by developing a theory of visual illustrations of philosophical texts and undermining what the author calls "the denigration of illustration." The book then takes a more historical approach, beginning in Ancient Greece and Rome and proceeding through Medieval illuminations and printed broadsides to the frontispieces of ...

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Thoughtful Images: Illustrating Philosophy Through Art 2023, Oxford University Press, USA

ISBN-13: 9780197650547

Hardcover