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Susan Buck-Morss, Dreamworld and Catastrophe: The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2000).

It has been argued that “the mass” as a coherent visual phenomenon can only inhabit the simulated, indefinite space of the cinema screen. Cinema creates an imagined space where a mass body exists that can exist nowhere [...]

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The Ambassadors

 

Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/8-1543)

1533 Oil on oak

207 × 209.5 cm

National Gallery, London
 

 
John Berger, Ways of Seeing (London: Penguin, 1972).

[Page 89] Holbein’s painting of The Ambassadors (1533) stands at the beginning of the tradition and, as often happens with a work at the opening of a [...]

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