{"product_id":"portraits-of-empiricism-art-histories-from-an-intellectual-tradition-hardcover","title":"Portraits of Empiricism: Art Histories from an Intellectual Tradition - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eC. Oliver O'Donnell\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003ePortraits of Empiricism\u003c\/i\u003e reveals how pictures can expose paradoxes at the heart of empiricist philosophy. Although many people believe that knowledge derives primarily from sensory experience, this defining principle brings with it persistent problems: the role of logic in knowledge production, the place of ethics and politics in empirical judgment, and the veil of perception that seems always to stand between observer and world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEngaging these enduring questions, C. Oliver O'Donnell turns to the visual culture of the Anglo-American eighteenth and nineteenth centuries--a historical milieu in which empiricism was forcefully articulated. He examines images made in close proximity to canonical figures and texts of the empiricist tradition, showing how they dramatize the tradition's riddles. Among them are artworks owned and discussed by John Locke, Thomas Jefferson, and Charles Sanders Peirce; allegorical portraits of David Hume and John Stuart Mill; and satirical illustrations linked to George Berkeley and Ralph Waldo Emerson. By situating these works in their historical contexts and connecting them to the arguments and beliefs of empiricist thinkers, O'Donnell demonstrates how empiricism was inseparable from its problems--and how those problems manifested themselves in visual form.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTreating images not as ancillary illustrations but as central evidence in the history of ideas, this book\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003ereframes empiricism's intellectual legacy. It will interest scholars of Anglo-American art history and art historiography, intellectual history, and philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eC. Oliver O'Donnell\u003c\/strong\u003e is Senior Research Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of the prizewinning \u003ci\u003eMeyer Schapiro's Critical Debates: Art Through a Modern American Mind\u003c\/i\u003e, also published by Penn State University Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 264\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.97 x 10 x 7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 17, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47518950588669,"sku":"9780271100296","price":183.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/3414\/0157\/files\/g8CoCmxSPd9780271100296.webp?v=1778349296","url":"https:\/\/booktolia.com\/products\/portraits-of-empiricism-art-histories-from-an-intellectual-tradition-hardcover","provider":"booktolia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}