This anthology presents classic and recent scholarship on Italian art from 1600-1750. Arranged thematically, it highlights the key debates with which art historians continue to grapple.
Information overload, the shallows, weapons of mass distraction, the googlization of minds: countless commentators condemn the flood of images and information that dooms us to a pathological attention deficit.
Completely revised throughout, Culture and Value is a selection from Wittgensteina s notebooks ---- on the nature of art, religion, culture, and the nature of philosophical activity.
"What we count matters, and in a world where policies and decisions are underpinned by numbers, statistics and data, if you're not counted, you don't count. In this book, Alex Cobham... Læs mere
The dictionary incorporates modern English idiom and current Latin spelling and includes general classical information where appropriate.