The E-Primer
R. Verdonschot, M. Spapé, Henk van Steenbergen
- Title
- The Secret Lives of Artworks
- Subtitle
- Exploring the Boundaries between Art and Life
- Price
- € 55,00
- ISBN
- 9789087281397
- Format
- Paperback
- Number of pages
- 411
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 01 - 08 - 2013
- Dimensions
- 15.6 x 23.4 cm
- Discipline
- History, Art History, and Archaeology
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
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
The Secret Lives of Artworks
Exploring the Boundaries between Art and Life
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’.
Editors
Caroline van Eck
Prof. dr. Caroline van Eck is professor of Architectural History and Theory at Leiden University.
Elsje van Kessel
Elsje van Kessel is PHD art historian and fellow at the Centre Allemand d’Histoire de l’Art in Paris.
Joris van Gastel
Joris van Gastel, formerly researcher at Leiden University‘s research project Art, Agency and Living Presence in Early Modern Italy, is research fellow at the University of Warwick.
