Research Catalog

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

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

Items in the Library & Off-site

Filter by

1 Item

StatusFormatAccessCall NumberItem Location
TextUse in library JQF 13-1144Schwarzman Building - Art & Architecture Room 300

Details

Description
xvii, 223 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colored); 27 cm
Subject
  • Eye in art > History > 18th century
  • Gaze in art > History > 18th century
  • Portrait miniatures > Europe > History > 18th century
  • Visual perception in art
  • Intimacy (Psychology) in art
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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
JQF 13-1144
ISBN
  • 9780226309668 (cloth : alkaline paper)
  • 0226309665 (cloth : alkaline paper)
LCCN
2012005109
OCLC
777251262
Author
Grootenboer, Hanneke.
Title
Treasuring the gaze : intimate vision in late eighteenth-century eye miniatures / Hanneke Grootenboer.
Imprint
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2012, ©2012.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Research Call Number
JQF 13-1144
View in Legacy Catalog