Ocularcentrism  

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Ocularcentrism is the privileging of vision over the other senses. It can be seen in much 20th-century art.

The eye was, in fact, a central Surrealist image, and indeed can be discerned in much 20th-century visual art. Anticipated by Odilon Redon's haunting images of single eyes as balloons, flowers or Cyclops staring towards heaven, artists like de Chirico, Ernst, Dali, Man Ray and Magritte developed a rich ocular iconography.

Narratives such as Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille and Un chien Andalou profess anti-ocularism. See "The Disenchantment of the Eye: Surrealism and the Crisis of Ocularcentrism" by Martin Jay.

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Other -centrisms




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