The Erotics of Looking: Early Modern Netherlandish Art Paperback - 2013 - 1st Edition
by Angela Vanhaelen (Editor); Bronwen Wilson (Editor)
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From the slyly suggestive to the overtly erotic, many early modern Dutch and Flemish artworks were designed to attract the eye, and yet the messages they convey are often equivocal. The Erotics of Looking: Early Modern Netherlandish Art presents a collection of provocative essays by leading scholars of art that delve into ways that material and pictorial qualities of descriptive artworks appeal to beholders to become involved with them. Exploring complex interrelations between making, displaying, and engaging with paintings and prints, the volume brings forward mechanisms through which visual imagery fostered new forms of association in early modern Europe. An introductory chapter lays out the innovative theoretical framework, arguing that descriptive pictures operated as social things, encouraging people to engage with them through the pleasures they offered the senses, prompting debate and potentially opening up ethical and political considerations about the interconnectedness of pictures and the material world. Challenging familiar interpretive models of iconography, verisimilitude, and social art history, the essays shift the focus away from a picture's meaning toward why art matters, toward how artworks solicit beholders and stimulate deliberation. The Erotics of Looking: Early Modern Netherlandish Art not only offers illuminating insights into ways to look at art - it redefines the concept of art itself.
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- Title The Erotics of Looking: Early Modern Netherlandish Art
- Author Angela Vanhaelen (Editor); Bronwen Wilson (Editor)
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 224
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Wiley-Blackwell
- Date 2013-07
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9781118465257 / 1118465253
- Weight 1.72 lbs (0.78 kg)
- Dimensions 10.9 x 8.3 x 0.6 in (27.69 x 21.08 x 1.52 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Art - Psychology, Art and society - Netherlands
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012051594
- Dewey Decimal Code 709.492
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