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Levende beelden : kunst werken en kijken /
Throughout the ages, and all over the world people have treated works of art as if they were living beings. This has until recently been dismissed as idolatry or fetishism. In "Levende beelden" we meet viewers from ancient Greece who tried to sleep with Praxiteles' statue of Aphrodite...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Dutch |
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Leiden :
Leiden University Press,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Throughout the ages, and all over the world people have treated works of art as if they were living beings. This has until recently been dismissed as idolatry or fetishism. In "Levende beelden" we meet viewers from ancient Greece who tried to sleep with Praxiteles' statue of Aphrodite and a Venetian aristocrat who spoke daily to the portrait of his beloved. In each case, the authors reconstruct how viewers and contemporaries made sense of these reactions, and draw on present-day insights from anthropology and psychology to understand what made people attribute life, personhood and agency to inanimate objects |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (96 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-124) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789400600300 9400600305 |