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Compelling visuality : the work of art in and out of history / Claire Farago and Robert Zwijnenberg, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art and history.
- Art criticism.
- Visual perception.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (256 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Takes up the commonly unexplored question of what is actually present in art-what aspects have survived the vicissitudes of time. International and interdisciplinary, this volume conducts readers into a discussion of the significance of personal response to works of art.
- Contents:
- Contents; Art History after Aesthetics: A Provocative Introduction; ONE: Ecstatic Aesthetics: Metaphoring Bernini; TWO: Before the Image, Before Time: The Sovereignty of Anachronism; THREE: Aesthetics before Art: Leonardo through the Looking Glass; FOUR: Touching the Face: The Ethics of Visuality between Levinas and a Rembrandt Self-Portrait; FIVE: Presence and Absence: On Leonardo da Vinci's Saint John the Baptist; SIX: Rococo as the Dissipation of Boredom; SEVEN: Mourning and Method; EIGHT: A Guide to Interpretation: Art Historical Hermeneutics; NINE: Seeing Soane Seeing You; Contributors
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-9460-5
- OCLC:
- 191948742
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