Item Number: 124723 Title: The Erotics of Looking: Early Modern Netherlandish Art Author: Vanhaelen, Angela ; Bronwen Wilson (eds) Price: Not Available ISBN: 9781118465257 Description: Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013. 28cm., pbk., 218pp. illus., most in color. Summary: The Erotics of Looking: Early Modern Netherlandish Art presents a collection of provocative essays that explore the material qualities of early Dutch art to reveal ways new forms of visual imagery solicit a beholder’s involvement. Contents: 1. The Erotics of Looking: Materiality, Solicitation and Netherlandish Visual Culture (Angela Vanhaelen and Bronwen Wilson) ; 2. Beer and Loafing in Antwerp (Bret Rothstein) ; 3. Perspectives in Flux: Viewing Dutch Pictures in Real Time (Celeste Brusati) ; 4. Entropic Segers (Christopher P. Heuer) ; 5. The Turn of the Skull: Andreas Vesalius and the Early Modern Memento Mori (Rose Marie San Juan) ; 6. Laying the Table: The Procedures of Still Life (Joanna Woodall) ; 7. Boredom's Threshold: Dutch Realism (Angela Vanhaelen) Responses ; 8. Art/Matter(s) (Larry Silver) ; 9. On the Impulse of Mapping, or How a Flat Earth Theory of Dutch Maps Distorts the Thickness and Pictorial Proclivities of Early Modern Dutch Cartography (and Misses Its Picturing Impulse) (Benjamin Schmidt) ; 10. Reflections on Temporality in Netherlandish Art (Lyle Massey) ; 11. The Work of Realism (Bronwen Wilson). (Art History Special Issues) We regret to inform you that this title is no longer available. P.O. Box 3904, Kingston, New York 12402 US Phone: 845-331-8519 Fax: 845-331-0852 Email: michael@artbooks.com |
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