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The place of the viewer : the embodied beholder in the history of art, 1764-1968 /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2019]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Contents; Acknowledgements; Figures; Introduction; 1 "A Hundred Different Points of View": Baudelaire and the Place ofthe Viewer; 2 A Brief Prehistory of Interest in the Physical Viewer; 3 The Place of the Viewer: Perspectives and Approaches; Chapter 1 The Communicative Viewpoint: Photography, Frontality, and Multiplicity in the 1800s; 1 Art History, Distance, and the Photograph; 2 "When a Choice Has Been Made": Talbot, Ruskin, and the Place of the Photographer; 3 Photography as Language: Subjective and Objective Viewpoints in the 1850s
- 4 Constructed Viewpoints: Art History, Photography, and Related Discourses, 1860-18805 Remote Viewing: Connoisseurship and Photography in the Late 1800s; 6 The Appeal of die reine Frontansicht: German-language Scholarship in the 1890s; 7 The Center Cannot Hold: Multiple Viewpoints in the Early 1900s; 8 Conclusion; Chapter 2 The Beholder in Motion: Kinetic Viewership; 1 Introduction: Recent Assertions about Kinetic Viewership; 2 Landskips and Kinema: towards a Prehistory of the Kinetic Viewer; 3 Freud and Moses, Empathy and Kinesis; 4 Space, Time, and the Work of Art in the 1920s and 1930s
- 5 Motion and Nomenclature: the Arrival of the Kinetic Viewer6 Conclusion; Chapter 3 The Body Physical, the Body Politic: Incorporated Viewership in the 1960s; 1 Sides at War: Viewership and the Viewer in the 1960s; 2 The Active Viewer: Politics and Artistic Discourses, c. 1960; 3 Embodied Poses: Leo Steinberg and Kinesthetic Empathy; 4 Ideas in Translation: Gestalt Theory and Phenomenology; 5 The Place of the Viewer in 'Art and Objecthood'; 6 Conclusion; Epilogue Art History and the Place of the Viewer since 1968; 1 The "Idea of the Spectator": Theorizations of the Audience, c. 1972
- 2 The Persistent Centrality of the ViewerBibliography; Index