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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819544203321

Titolo

Compelling visuality : the work of art in and out of history / / Claire Farago and Robert Zwijnenberg, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2003

ISBN

0-8166-9460-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

FaragoClaire J

ZwijnenbergRobert <1954->

Disciplina

701/.18

Soggetti

Art and history

Art criticism

Visual perception

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.