Renzo Dubbini Geography of the Gaze: Urban and Rural Vision in Early Modern Europe. University of Chicago Press, 2002. Urban and Rural Vision series. First printing of US edition of this translation by Lydia G. Cochrane of "Geographie dello sguardo: visione paessagio in eta moderna" (Giulio Einaudi, 1994). 0226167372 xiii/251 pages. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.25", is in fine condition, solidly bound, with clean, bright pages. Textual illustrations throughout. ""Geography of the Gaze" offers a new history and theory of how the way we look at things influences what we see. Focusing on Western Europe from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, Renzo Dubbini shows how developments in science, art, mapping, and visual epistemology affected the ways natural and artificial landscapes were perceived and portrayed."
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