# Believing Is Seeing

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- Book: [Believing Is Seeing](https://www.bookquiver.com/mary-anne-staniszewski/believing-is-seeing) ([Believing Is Seeing.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/mary-anne-staniszewski/believing-is-seeing.md))
- Authors: [Mary Anne Staniszewski](https://www.bookquiver.com/mary-anne-staniszewski)
- Publisher: penguin_books
- ISBN: 978-01-4016-824-2
- Pages: 320
- Published: 1995-01-01
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Why are the paleolithic Venus of Willendorf, Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel frescoes, and Marcel Duchamp's ready-made urinal all considered works of art? Why, strictly speaking, is a Cindy Sherman photograph...