Only Connect : Art and the Spectator in the Italian Renaissance / John K.G. Shearman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shearman, John K.G., Author.

Contributor:

National Gallery of Art (U.S.), Content Provider.

Series:

Bollingen series ; 35, 37.

Princeton Legacy Library ; 5579

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Audiences--Psychology.

Audiences.

Art, Renaissance--Italy.

Art, Renaissance.

Art, Italian.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 pages).

Other Title:

Art and the spectator in the Italian Renaissance

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

John Shearman makes the plea for a more engaged reading of art works of the Italian Renaissance, one that will recognize the presuppositions of Renaissance artists about their viewers. His book is the first attempt to construct a history of those Renaissance paintings and sculptures that are by design completed outside themselves in or by the spectator, that embrace the spectator into their narrative plot or aesthetic functioning, and that reposition the spectator imaginatively or in time and space. He takes the lead from texts and artists of the period, for these artists reveal themselves as spectators. Among modern historiographical techniques, Reception Theory is closest to the author's method, but Shearman's concern is mostly with anterior relationships with the viewer--that is, relationships conceived and constructed as part of the work's design, making, and positioning. Shearman proposes unconventional ways in which works of art may be distinguished one from another, and in which spectators may be distinguished, too, and enlarges the accepted field of artistic invention. Furthermore, His argument reflects on the Renaissance itself. What is created in this period tends to be regarded as conventional, or inherent in the nature of painting and sculpture: he maintains that this is a careless, disengaged view that has overlooked the process of discovery by immensely inventive and visually intelllectual artists. John Shearman is William Door Boardman Professor of Fine Arts at Harvard University. Among his works are Mannerism (Hardmondsworth/Penguin), Raphael's Cartoons in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen and the Tapestries for the Sistine Chapel (Phaidon), The Early Italian Paintings in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen (Cambridge). and Funzione e Illusione (il Saggiatore).The A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, 1988Bollingen Series XXXV: 37Originally Publsihed in 1992The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Front matter

CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

INTRODUCTION

I. A MORE ENGAGED SPECTATOR

II. A SHARED SPACE

III. PORTRAITS AND POETS

IV. DOMES

V. HISTORY, AND ENERGY

VI. IMITATION, AND THE SLOW FUSE

SOURCES OF ILLUSTRATIONS

INDEX

Notes:

"The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780691252728

0691252726

9780691252711

0691252718

9780691656830

0691656835

9780691200774

0691200777

9780691099729

0691099723

OCLC:

1132666424