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Dealing With the Visual - Art History, Aesthetics and Visual Culture

English · Hardback

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List of contents

Contents: Introduction, Caroline van Eck and Edward Winters; Part I The experience of the visual in Art History, Aesthetics and Visual Culture: Visual culture and the history of art, David Peters Corbett; Space without hiding places: Merleau-Ponty's remarks on linear perspective, Ren�van de Vall; Aesthetics and visual culture: looking at Andrew Pankhurst�s Night Painting, Edward Winters; Ought painting be allowed to die?, Derek Matravers; Part II Elucidating the Visual: Marcus Gheeraerdts� Captain Thomas Lee, Lucy Gent; Painting and visuality in Van Dyck�s Self-portrait with a Sunflower, John Peacock; Sacred contagion: secular jewellery and votive transvaluation at the Santa Casa, Loreto, 1720-1820, Marcia Pointon; Villas and vision: looking at Palladio�s villas from the road, Lex Hermans; Staged experiences: the church designs of Nicholas Hawksmoor, Sophie Ploeg; The unreliable eye: the decline of vision as a reliable source of knowledge in Dutch architectural theory of the nineteenth century, Petra Brouwer; Mies van der Rohe - drawing in space, Victoria Watson; Shadow, shading and outline in architectural engraving from Fr�t to Letarouilly, Nicholas Savage; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Dr. Caroline van Eck, University of Ghent, Belgium and Edward Winters, West Dean College, UK.

Summary

Can paintings, buildings or installations be 'read' in the way texts are read or deciphered, or do works of visual art ask for their own kind of appreciation? In this anthology, this question is approached from the angles of three disciplines: aesthetics, visual culture and art history.

Product details

Authors Caroline Van Eck, Caroline Winters Van Eck, Winters, Edward Winters, Winters Edward
Assisted by Caroline Van Eck (Editor), Edward Winters (Editor), Caroline Van Eck (Editor of the series)
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd.
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 31.12.2018
 
EAN 9780815388449
ISBN 978-0-8153-8844-9
No. of pages 320
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture

Architecture, ARCHITECTURE / General

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