Treasuring the gaze : intimate vision in late eighteenth-century eye miniatures /
The end of the eighteenth century saw the start of a new craze in Europe: tiny portraits of single eyes that were exchanged by lovers or family members. Worn as brooches or pendants, these minuscule eyes served the same emotional need as more conventional mementoes, such as lockets containing a coil...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2012.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: An overlooked episode in vision's history
- 1. Intimate vision: the portrait miniature's structure of address
- 2. Gazing games: eye portraits and the two sexes of sight
- 3. The crying image: the withdrawal of the gaze
- 4. Intimate as extimate: the gaze as part-object
- 5. The face becoming eye: portraiture's minimum
- Conclusion: The eye portrait's afterlife.