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Treasuring the gaze :

(Number (ISBN

0226309665

(Number (ISBN

9780226309668

Erroneous ISBN

0226309711

Erroneous ISBN

9780226309712

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Title Proper

Treasuring the gaze :

General Material Designation

[Book]

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intimate vision in late eighteenth-century eye miniatures /

First Statement of Responsibility

Hanneke Grootenboer

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xvii, 223 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations ;

Dimensions

27 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-209) and index

Text of Note

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

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"The end of the eighteenth century saw the start of a new craze in Europe: tiny portraits of single eyes that were exchanged by lovers or family members. Worn as brooches or pendants, these minuscule eyes served the same emotional need as more conventional mementoes, such as lockets containing a coil of a loved one's hair. The fashion lasted only a few decades, and by the early 1800s eye miniatures had faded into oblivion. Unearthing these portraits in Treasuring the Gaze, Hanneke Grootenboer proposes that the rage for eye miniatures--and their abrupt disappearance--reveals a knot in the unfolding of the history of vision. Drawing on Alois Riegl, Jean-Luc Nancy, Marcia Pointon, Melanie Klein, and others, Grootenboer unravels this knot, discovering previously unseen patterns of looking and strategies for showing. She shows that eye miniatures portray the subject's gaze rather than his or her eye, making the recipient of the keepsake an exclusive beholder who is perpetually watched."--

Eye in art-- History-- 18th century

Gaze in art-- History-- 18th century

Intimacy (Psychology) in art

Portrait miniatures-- Europe-- History-- 18th century

Visual perception in art

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Book number

Grootenboer, Hanneke

Date of Transaction

20170323072541.3

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[Book]

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