Overview

The Secret Lives of Artworks is a collection of essays on the phenomenon that viewers treat works of art as living beings: they attribute life, personhood and agency to them, kiss them, beat them, or claim that portraits look at viewers, and that statues move, breathe and speak. This volume engages in existent theories of these phenomena in art history, psychology, aesthetics and anthropology developed by the members of the Leiden 'Art, Agency and Living Presence' group. The Secret Lives of Art Works identifies new areas of research and presents the theoretical and historical account exploring the boundaries between 'Art and Life'.

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Author:   Caroline van Eck ,  Elsje van Kessel ,  Joris van Gastel
Publisher:   Leiden University Press
Imprint:   Leiden University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 23.40cm
ISBN:  

9789087281397

ISBN 10:   9087281390
Pages:   411
Publication Date:   01 August 2013
Audience:   General/trade ,  General/trade ,  General ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Exploring the Boundaries Between Art and Life Part One Portrayal. In What Sense Can Images Be Said to Be Alive? 1 The Living Presence of the Gods in Ancient Greece 2 Da’ più scorretti abusata 3 Perpetual Presences 4 Double-Sided Portraits 5 Not Painting but Flesh 6 Monteverdi’s Voice 7 Metallic Presence 8 Imitation as Animation Part Two.What Makes Viewers Say that Images Are Animated? Visual Representation as Real Presence 10 Passeri’s Vite 11 The Significance of Fluids 12 Bodies Made Present 13 Hieronymus Cock’s Effigies Part Three What Goes on in Viewers’ Minds? 14 The Public Lives of Artworks 15 Living Stones, Crying Walls 16 Depiction, Make-Believe and Participatory Imagining Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index

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This book offers a very interesting collection of essays on a very interesting topic. The collection as a whole is coherent, the individual essays are all convincing, the general approach and even tone and style of writing is quite harmonious. Remarkably so for a book that grows out of a conference. --Bart Verschaffel, Ghent University

This book offers a very interesting collection of essays on a very interesting topic. The collection as a whole is coherent, the individual essays are all convincing, the general approach and even tone and style of writing is quite harmonious. Remarkably so for a book that grows out of a conference. --Bart Verschaffel, Ghent University This book offers a very interesting collection of essays on a very interesting topic. The collection as a whole is coherent, the individual essays are all convincing, the general approach and even tone and style of writing is quite harmonious. Remarkably so for a book that grows out of a conference. --Bart Verschaffel, Ghent University

Author Information

Prof. dr. Caroline van Eck is professor of Architectural History and Theory at Leiden University.|Joris van Gastel is phd art historian and fellow at the Humbolt University of Berlin.|Elsje van Kessel is PHD art historian and fellow at the Centre Allemand d'Histoire de l'Art in Paris.

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