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028			_aRaghav Books Pvt. Ltd. _bA-184 A,Nand Gram, Ghaziabad _c1831 _d15/06/2020
082			_a152.109 CLA
100			_aConstance Classen.
245			_aThe color of angels _b: cosmology, gender, and the aesthetic imagination _c/ Constance Classen.
260			_aLondon ; New York _b: Routledge _c, 1998.
300			_a234 pages _b: illustrations _c; 25 cm.
365			_b3991
505			_apt. I. Cosmology. 1. On the color of angels: the sensory cosmologies of St. Hildegard, Boehme, and Fourier. 2. The breath of God: sacred histories of scent -- pt. II. Gender. 3. The scented womb and the seminal eye: embodying gender codes through the senses. 4. Pens and needles: writing, women's work, and feminine sensibilities -- pt. III. Aesthetics. 5. Symbolist harmonies, Futurist colors, Surrealist recipes: crossing sensory borders in the arts. 6. A feel for the world: lessons in aesthetics from the blind.
520			_a This text looks at the symbolism of the senses which animated the cosmos before the modern scientific view of the world came to dominate, revealing the gender politics behind such sensory constructs as the male gaze and the female touch.
650			_aPhilosophy
655			_aHistory. _bSenses and sensation
700			_aConstance Classen.
942			_cBOOK