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Treasuring the gaze : intimate vision in late eighteenth-century eye miniatures / Hanneke Grootenboer.

Author/creator Grootenboer, Hanneke
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoChicago : University of Chicago Press, 2012, ©2012.
Descriptionxvii, 223 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colored) ; 27 cm
Subject(s)
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.
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 199-209) and index.
LCCN 2012005109
ISBN9780226309668 (cloth : alkaline paper)
ISBN0226309665 (cloth : alkaline paper)
ISBN9780226309712 (e-book)
ISBN0226309711 (e-book)

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