Compelling Visuality
The Work Of Art In And Out Of History
Explores what we actually see, touch, and experience when looking at art
256 Pages, 6 x 9 in
- Paperback
- 9780816641161
- Published: October 15, 2003
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Compelling Visuality
The Work Of Art In And Out Of History
ISBN: 9780816641161
Publication date: October 15th, 2003
256 Pages
9 x 5
Explores what we actually see, touch, and experience when looking at art
Typically, art history is an enterprise of recovery—of searching out the provenance, the original intentions, the physical setting, and historical conditions behind a work of art. The essays in Compelling Visuality address some of the other questions that are less frequently asked—and, in doing so, show how much is to be learned and gained by going beyond the traditional approaches of art history.
In particular, the contributors take up the commonly unexplored question of what is actually present in a work of art—what we see, touch, and experience when confronted with Renaissance or Baroque works that have survived the vicissitudes of time. International and interdisciplinary, this volume conducts readers into an ongoing discussion of the value and significance of personal response to works of art.
Contributors: F. R. Ankersmit, U of Groningen; Mieke Bal, U of Amsterdam and Cornell U; Oskar Bätschmann, U of Bern; Georges Didi-Huberman, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris; Michael Ann Holly, Clark Art Institute; Donald Preziosi, UCLA and Oxford U; Renée van de Vall, U of Maastricht.
Robert Zwijnenberg is professor of art history in relation to the development of science and technology at the University of Maastricht.
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