Treasuring the gaze : intimate vision in late eighteenth-century eye miniatures

Title
  1. Treasuring the gaze : intimate vision in late eighteenth-century eye miniatures / Hanneke Grootenboer.
Published by
  1. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2012, ©2012.
Author
  1. Grootenboer, Hanneke.

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Description
  1. xvii, 223 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colored); 27 cm
Subject
  1. Eye in art > History > 18th century
  2. Gaze in art > History > 18th century
  3. Portrait miniatures > Europe > History > 18th century
  4. Visual perception in art
  5. Intimacy (Psychology) in art
Contents
  1. An overlooked episode of vision's history -- Intimate vision: the portrait miniature's structure of address -- Gazing games: eye portraits and the two sexes of sight -- The crying image: the withdrawal of the gaze -- Intimate as extimate: the gaze as part-object -- The face becoming eye: portraiture's minimum -- The eye portrait's afterlife.
Call number
  1. JQF 13-1144
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Author
  1. Grootenboer, Hanneke.
Title
  1. Treasuring the gaze : intimate vision in late eighteenth-century eye miniatures / Hanneke Grootenboer.
Imprint
  1. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2012, ©2012.
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN
  1. 2012005109
ISBN
  1. 9780226309668 (cloth : alkaline paper)
  2. 0226309665 (cloth : alkaline paper)
Research call number
  1. JQF 13-1144
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