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Understanding art objects : thinking through the eye
- Title
- Understanding art objects : thinking through the eye / edited by Tony Godfrey ; with essays by Megan Aldrich ... [et al.].
- Publication
- Farnham : Lund Humphries, 2009.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Godfrey, Tony.
- Description
- 176 p. : ill. (some col.); 27 cm.
- Summary
- Essays written by teachers and consultants at Sotheby's Institute.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction. What, where and when : how and why we look at works of art / Tony Godfrey -- What? John singleton Copley's miniature self-portrait and portrait of Moses Gill / Carrie Rebora Barratt ; The Countess of Dysart's backstools / Megan Aldrich ; What's in a box? The many layers of a seventeenth-century lacquer casket / Julia Hutt ; Joseph Kosuth's One and three chairs, 1965 / Eugene Tan ; David Reed : No. 286-2, 1990-2 / Tony Godfrey -- Where? A l'enseigne de Gersaint by Jean-Antoine Watteau : from shop sign to masterpiece / Catherine Morel ; Kabuto with symbolic tower and Kazari : displaying the decorative in Edo Japan / James Malpas ; The eroticised Victorian child : Mrs Holford's daughter / Juliet Hacking ; 127 cuerpos : Teresa Margolles and the aesthetics of commemoration / Anthony Downey -- When? The Jenkins Venus : reception in the art world and the market / David Bellingham ; On the wings of a dove : Jacob Epstein's Doves, third version, 1914-15 / Bernard Vere ; Marcel Breuer's Wassily chair : a design icon of the 1920s / Elisabeth Darby ; Gerhard Richter's Tante Marianne revisited / Anna Moszynska.
- Call Number
- JQF 10-518
- ISBN
- 9781848220164 (cased)
- 1848220162 (cased)
- LCCN
- 2009920796
- OCLC
- 318879690
- Title
- Understanding art objects : thinking through the eye / edited by Tony Godfrey ; with essays by Megan Aldrich ... [et al.].
- Imprint
- Farnham : Lund Humphries, 2009.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Godfrey, Tony.
- Research Call Number
- JQF 10-518