Art, agency and living presence : from the animated image to the excessive object / Caroline van Eck.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eck, Caroline van, author.

Series:

Studien aus dem Warburg-Haus ; Bd. 16.

Studien aus dem Warburg-Haus ; Band 16

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art--Psychological aspects.

Art.

Art appreciation.

Art and society.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (292 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boston : De Gruyter, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Das Kunstwerk als lebendiges Wesen – eine grundlegende Studie

Throughout history, and all over the world, viewers have treated works of art as if they are living beings: speaking to them, falling in love with them, kissing or beating them. Although over the past 20 years the catalogue of individual cases of such behavior towards art has increased immensely, there are few attempts at formulating a theoretical account of them, or writing the history of how such responses were considered, defined or understood. That is what this book sets out to do: to reconstruct some crucial chapters in the history of thought about such reflections in Western Europe, and to offer some building blocks towards a theoretical account of such responses, drawing on the work of Aby Warburg and Alfred Gell.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Enargeia

Agency

Memory

Idolatry

Fetishism

Aesthetic Ambivalence

Farming, Staging and Acting Living Presence

The Afterlife of Art

Epilogue: From the Animated Image to the Excessive Object

Notes

Bibliography

List of Illustrations

Index

Backmatter

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

3-11-034556-0

3-11-038035-8

OCLC:

909907886