David H Summers

Vision, Reflection, and Desire in Western Painting (Bettie Allison Rand Lectures in Art History)

Spanning more than 2,500 years in the history of art, this book demonstrates how the rise and diffusion of the science of optics in ancient Greece and the Mediterranean world correlated to pictorial illusion in the development of Western painting from Hellenistic Greece to the present. The spread of...

The Judgment of Sense: Renaissance Naturalism and the Rise of Aesthetics (Ideas in Context)

With the rise of naturalism in the art of the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance there developed an extensive and diverse literature about art which helped to explain, justify and shape its new aims. In this book, David Summers provides an investigation of the philosophical and psychological notio...

Real Spaces: World Art History and the Rise of Western Modernism

David Summers sets forth that current formalist, contextual and post-structural approaches fail to provide an adequate account of all art, particularly art produced outside the Western tradition. He argues that there are profound problems right at the heart of Western thinking about art, and his new...

Human Judgment and Social Interaction

Spenser's Arthur : The British Arthurian Tradition and the Faerie Queene

The Judgment of Sense: Renaissance Naturalism and the Rise of Aesthetics

The Judgement of Sense: Renaissance Naturalism and the Rise of Aesthetics

Michelangelo and the Language of Art

Michelangelo and the Language of Art

Real Spaces: World Art History and the Rise of Western Modernism

Vision, Reflection, and Desire in Western Painting