Levende beelden : kunst werken en kijken / Caroline van Eck en Stijn Bussels.

By:

Eck, Caroline van

Contributor(s):

Bussels, Stijn

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Leiden : Leiden University Press, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (96 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9789400600300
9400600305

Subject(s): Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Levende beelden. Kunst werken en kijken.DDC classification:

700 23

LOC classification:

N7570 .L48 2011eb

Online resources:

Click here to access online

Summary: Throughout the ages, and all over the world people have treated works of art as if they were living beings. This has until recently been dismissed as idolatry or fetishism. In "Levende beelden" we meet viewers from ancient Greece who tried to sleep with Praxiteles' statue of Aphrodite and a Venetian aristocrat who spoke daily to the portrait of his beloved. In each case, the authors reconstruct how viewers and contemporaries made sense of these reactions, and draw on present-day insights from anthropology and psychology to understand what made people attribute life, personhood and agency to inanimate objects

Item type:

Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.

Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)

Holdings
Item type	Home library	Collection	Call number	Materials specified	Status	Date due	Barcode
Electronic-Books	OPJGU Sonepat- Campus	E-Books EBSCO			Available

Throughout the ages, and all over the world people have treated works of art as if they were living beings. This has until recently been dismissed as idolatry or fetishism. In "Levende beelden" we meet viewers from ancient Greece who tried to sleep with Praxiteles' statue of Aphrodite and a Venetian aristocrat who spoke daily to the portrait of his beloved. In each case, the authors reconstruct how viewers and contemporaries made sense of these reactions, and draw on present-day insights from anthropology and psychology to understand what made people attribute life, personhood and agency to inanimate objects