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The place of the viewer : the embodied beholder in the history of art, 1764-1968
Title:
The place of the viewer : the embodied beholder in the history of art, 1764-1968
Author:
Houston, Kerr, author.
ISBN:
9789004400238
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Physical Description:
xi, 270 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Contents:
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 -- Epilogue : art history and the place of the viewer since 1968.
Abstract:
"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." -- Back cover
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Bibliographical References:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-264) and index.
Field 805:
npmlib 10905776 N71 H68 yh
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