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Dealing with the visual : art history, aesthetics, and visual culture / edited by Caroline van Eck and Edward Winters.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Histories of visionPublication details: Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2005.Description: xvi, 304 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0754634280 (hardback : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 701.17 VAN
Contents:
Visual culture and the history of art / David Peters Corbett -- Space without hiding places : Merleau-Ponty\'s remarks on linear perspective / Renée van de Vall -- Aesthetics and visual culture : looking at Andrew Pankhurst\'s Night painting / Edward Winters -- Ought painting be allowed to die? / Derek Matravers -- Marcus Gheeraerdts\'s 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 Fréart to Letarouilly / Nicholas Savage.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Standard Loan LSAD Library Main Collection 701.17 VAN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 39002100312025

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

One of the issues underlying current debates between practitioners of art history, visual culture and aesthetics is whether the visual is a unique, irreducible category, or whether it can be assimilated with the textual or verbal without any significant loss. 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? This is not only a question of choosing the right method in dealing with visual works of art, but also an issue that touches on the roots of the disciplines involved: can a case be made for the visual as an irreducible category of art, and if so, how is it best studied and appreciated? In this anthology, this question is approached from the angles of three disciplines: aesthetics, visual culture and art history. Unlike many existing overviews of visual culture studies, it includes both painting and architecture, and investigates historical ways of defining and appreciating the visual in their own, contemporary terms.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [284]-298) and index.

Visual culture and the history of art / David Peters Corbett -- Space without hiding places : Merleau-Ponty\'s remarks on linear perspective / Renée van de Vall -- Aesthetics and visual culture : looking at Andrew Pankhurst\'s Night painting / Edward Winters -- Ought painting be allowed to die? / Derek Matravers -- Marcus Gheeraerdts\'s 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 Fréart to Letarouilly / Nicholas Savage.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Introduction
  • Part I The experience of the visual in Art History, Aesthetics and Visual Culture
  • Visual culture and the history of art
  • Space without hiding places: Merleau-Ponty's remarks on linear perspective
  • Aesthetics and visual culture: looking at Andrew Pankhurst's Night Painting
  • Ought painting be allowed to die?
  • Part II Elucidating the Visual
  • Marcus Gheeraerdts' Captain Thomas Lee
  • Painting and visuality in Van Dyck's Self-portrait with a Sunflower
  • Sacred contagion: secular jewellery and votive transvaluation at the Santa Casa, Loreto, 1720-1820
  • Villas and vision: looking at Palladio's villas from the road
  • Staged experiences: the church designs of Nicholas Hawksmoor
  • The unreliable eye: the decline of vision as a reliable source of knowledge in Dutch architectural theory of the nineteenth century
  • Mies van der Rohe - drawing in space
  • Shadow, shading and outline in architectural engraving from Fréart to Letarouilly
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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