The place of the viewer : the embodied beholder in the history of art, 1764-1968 / / by Kerr Houston

• Autore: Houston Kerr
• Pubblicazione: Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2019
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (282 pages)
• Disciplina: 701.15
• Soggetto topico: Art - Psychology; Art criticism - History
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The place of the viewer
• ISBN: 90-04-40053-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910793675103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II