Seeing Across Cultures in the Early Modern World

Historians of art and architecture consider the new ways of looking and seeing, and new ways of explaining visual experience, that accompanied the expansion of the European world to Africa, Asia, and the Americas. They look at perspective and mimesis, blindness and memory, colonial visualities, and seeing across time. The topics include perspective and its discontents or St. Lucy's eyes, competing and complementary visions of the court of the Great Mogor in India, memory and visuality in early modern West Africa, voicing Moctezuma II's image in Chapultepec Park in Mexico City, and understanding visuality. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Dana Leibsohn is Priscilla Paine van der Poel Professor of Art History at Smith College, USA. Jeanette Favrot Peterson is an Associate Professor of History of Art and Architecture at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.