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Autore |
Houston Kerr |
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The place of the viewer : the embodied beholder in the history of art, 1764-1968 / / by Kerr Houston |
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Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2019 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (282 pages) |
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Art - Psychology |
Art criticism - History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Acknowledgements -- Figures -- Introduction -- The Communicative Viewpoint: Photography, Frontality, and Multiplicity in the 1800s -- The Beholder in Motion: Kinetic Viewership -- The Body Physical, the Body Politic: Incorporated Viewership in the 1960s -- Art History and the Place of the Viewer since 1968 -- Back Matter -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In recent decades, art historians and critics have occasionally emphasized a dynamic, embodied mode of looking, accenting the role of the viewer and the complex interplay between beholders and works of art. In The Place of the Viewer , Kerr Houston shows that an attention to the position and physical experiences of beholders has in fact long informed art historical analyses – and that close study of the theme can lead to a fuller understanding of the discipline, the act of viewership and individual works of art. Simultaneously attentive to historical ideas and contemporary scholarship, this book identifies a vein of thought that has been generally overlooked, and proposes new ways of seeing familiar works and traditions. |
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