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Compelling Visuality

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Compelling Visuality

The Work of Art in and out of History

Claire Farago and Robert Zwijnenberg, Editors

University of Minnesota Press

Minneapolis • London

The University of Minnesota Press gratefully acknowledges

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nancial assistance

provided by the Netherlands Organisation for Scienti

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c Research (NWO) for the

publication of this book.

by the Regents of the University of Minnesota

All photographs in chapter

were taken by the author.

originally appeared in Brain of the Earth’s Body: Art,

Museums, and the Phantasms of Modernity, by Donald Preziosi (Minneapolis:

University of Minnesota Press,

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Compelling visuality : the work of art in and out of history / Claire

Farago and Robert Zwijnenberg, editors.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN 0-8166-4115-3 (HC : alk. paper) — ISBN 0-8166-4116-1 (PB : alk.

paper)

1. Art criticism. 2. Art and history. 3. Visual perception.

I. Farago, Claire J. II. Zwijnenberg, Robert, 1954–

N7475.C59 2003

701'.18—dc21

2003008902

Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper

The University of Minnesota is an equal-opportunity educator and employer.

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