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The color of angels : cosmology, gender, and the aesthetic imagination / Constance Classen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Classen, Constance, 1957-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Senses and sensation--Sex differences--History.
- Senses and sensation.
- Senses and sensation--Religious aspects--Christianity--History.
- Senses and sensation in art--History.
- Senses and sensation in art.
- History.
- Senses and sensation--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Sex differences.
- Physical Description:
- 234 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.
- Summary:
- songs. Despite the gendered history of the senses, Classen concludes that the experiences of those marginalized by society--including women and the blind--can form the basis for developing a new, more vital sensory aesthetics.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [209]-228) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0415180732
- 0415180740
- OCLC:
- 39217111
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