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The Eye's Mind: Literary Modernism and Visual Culture
by Karen Jacobs I made several attempts to get into the volume by scanning the table of contents. The subject of perspective machines (page 18) caught my eye because of all the recent talk about Vermeer, but instead I was bombarded with aspects of "interior gaze." Elsewhere (page 116) we are told that "Relative to its contemporaries in the hard sciences, for example, which had to contend with the relativization of observable postures previously conceived of as neutral in such theories as Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, Boasian anthropology kept faith with a doctrine of observable truths made possible by proper field-work methodology." For readers who may be worried about the potential threats to objective science I recommend "The Flight from Science and Reason" edited by Paul Gross, Norman Levitt, and Martin Wise. "The Eye's Mind" will be difficult for anyone outside the field. Words of praise on the back cover include the statement that this is, "A fine book on a topic of importance, and full of smart prose and ingenious arguments . " I was not encouraged by the encounter. |
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