Rainer Mack
Biographic Data
| ID | 5632909 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rainer Mack |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rainer |
| FAMILY NAME | Mack |
| SIGNATURE | MACK R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 1 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Facing Down Medusa (An aetiology of the gaze)
Archaic and classical Greek images of the face of Medusa ( gorgoneia ) are typically understood as apotropaia , quasi–magical terror masks that instantiated the power of the monster’s petrifying gaze. This interpretation articulates the fiction of the image (its pictorialization of the threat posed by Medusa), but fails to account for its material condition as an object of visual consumption. The latter, constituted through practices of image–mak…
Facing Down Medusa (An aetiology of the gaze)
Archaic and classical Greek images of the face of Medusa ( gorgoneia ) are typically understood as apotropaia , quasi–magical terror masks that instantiated the power of the monster’s petrifying gaze. This interpretation articulates the fiction of the image (its pictorialization of the threat posed by Medusa), but fails to account for its material condition as an object of visual consumption. The latter, constituted through practices of image–mak…
Facing Down Medusa (An aetiology of the gaze)
Archaic and classical Greek images of the face of Medusa ( gorgoneia ) are typically understood as apotropaia , quasi–magical terror masks that instantiated the power of the monster’s petrifying gaze. This interpretation articulates the fiction of the image (its pictorialization of the threat posed by Medusa), but fails to account for its material condition as an object of visual consumption. The latter, constituted through practices of image–mak…
Aesthetics (1 works) · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (1 works) · Computer Science (1 works) · Face (sociological concept (1 works) · Gaze (1 works) · HERO (1 works) · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies (1 works) · Interpretation (philosophy (1 works)