Barbara Maria Stafford (University of Chicago)
Barbara Maria Stafford is William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Art History at the University of Chicago. Her books include: Symbol and Myth (1979), Voyage into Substance (1984), Body Criticism (1991), Artful Science (1994), Visual Education (1994), Good Looking (1996), Visual Analogy (1999). Her latest book is Devices of Wonder: From the World in a Box to Images on a Screen, (coauthor: Frances Terpak with Object List by Isotta Poggi). Her recent essays examine the revolutionary ways in which the brain sciences are changing our view of the total sensorium and inflecting our fundamental assumptions concerning perception, sensation, emotion, mental imagery, and subjectivity. She is currently engaged in writing a cognitive history of images.
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