TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stafford,Barbara Maria
TI  - Good looking: essays on the virtue of images 
SN  - 0262193698
AV  - P 93.5 S73.1996
PY  - 1996///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - The MIT Press
KW  - Visual communication
KW  - Comunicación visual
KW  - Postmodernism
KW  - Postmodernismo
N1  - Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice; Introduction: Visual Pragmatism for a Virtual World -- 1. The Visualization of Knowledge from the Enlightenment to Postmodernism -- 2. Display and the Rhetoric of Corruption -- 3. The Eighteenth Century at the End of Modernity -- 4. The New Imagist -- 5. Making Images Real -- 6. Desperately Seeking Connections: Linking the Internet to Eighteenth-Century Laboratory Life -- 7. The Natural History of Design: Humbert de Superville and Postmodern Theory -- 8. An Image of One's Own -- 9. Medical Ethics as Postmodern Aesthetics -- 10. Picturing Ambiguity -- 11. Difficult Content, or the Pleasures of Viewing Pain -- Conclusion: Analogy in an Age of Difference
ER  -