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Treasuring the gaze : intimate vision in late eighteenth-century eye miniatures / Hanneke Grootenboer.
LIBRA N8217.E9 G76 2012
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Grootenboer, Hanneke.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Eye in art--History--18th century.
- Eye in art.
- Gaze in art--History--18th century.
- Gaze in art.
- Portrait miniatures--Europe--History--18th century.
- Portrait miniatures.
- Visual perception in art.
- Intimacy (Psychology) in art.
- History.
- Europe.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 223 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colored) ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2012.
- Contents:
- An overlooked episode of vision's history
- Intimate vision: the portrait miniature's structure of address
- Gazing games: eye portraits and the two sexes of sight
- The crying image: the withdrawal of the gaze
- Intimate as extimate: the gaze as part-object
- The face becoming eye: portraiture's minimum
- The eye portrait's afterlife.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226309668
- 0226309665
- 9780226309712
- 0226309711
- OCLC:
- 777251262
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