The I and the Eye
The Verbal and the Visual in Post-Renaissance Western Aesthetics

A treatise on the Laocoon sculptural group that lets reader experience a watershed in a critical tradition that has emerged in Williams' "The Long Revolution" (1961), Culture (1963) and Keywords (1976); Thompson's Working Class (1963) and Customs (1993); Schweizer's Ut Pictura Poesis (1972); Burger's Theory (1984); and, more.

From the vantage point of my argument, the reader can experience a watershed in a critical tradition that has emerged in Williams' "The Long Revolution" (1961), Culture (1963) and Keywords (1976); Thompson's Working Class (1963) and Customs (1993); Schweizer's Ut Pictura Poesis (1972); Burger's Theory (1984); Wellbery's Lessing's Laocoon (1984); Mitchell's Iconology (1986); Summers' Judgement of Sense (1987); Ranciere's Nights of Labor (1989) and Politics (2007); Eagleton's Ideology (1990); Jay's Downcast Eyes (1994); Kirby's Telling Flesh (1997); Barnard's Art (1998); Jameson's Postmodernism (1999); Edgar's Key Concepts (1999); Schoroeder's Visual Consumption (2002); and, Eldridge's Philosophy of Art (2003); Also in the following: Kelly's Iconoclasm (2003); Malshe's Aesthetics (2003); Hall's Subjectivity (2004); Stallabrass' Contemporary Art (2004); Hefferman's Museum (2004) and Cultivating Picturacy (2006); Szerszynski's Nature (2005); Cottington's Modern Art (2005); Day's Class (2007); Hawkes' Ideology (2007); Gillespie's Theological Origins (2008); and, Crawford's Shop Class (2009).