Compelling Visuality

by Farago, Claire; Zwijnenberg, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780816641161
• ISBN10: 0816641161
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-09-01
• Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr

Summary

The authors of the essays in this book take up the often unexplored question of how one's experience, when confronted with Renaissance or Baroque artworks, survives the vicissitudes of time and itself becomes an important element of interpretation. International and interdisciplinary, this volume conducts readers into an ongoing discussion of the value and significance of personal response to works of art. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Art History after Aesthetics: A Provocative Introduction	vii
Robert Zwijnenberg and Claire Farago
ONE Ecstatic Aesthetics: Metaphoring Bernini	1	(30)
Mieke Bal
TWO Before the Image, Before Time: The Sovereignty of Anachronism	31	(14)
Georges Didi-Huberman
THREE Aesthetics before Art: Leonardo through the Looking Glass	45	(48)
Claire Farago
FOUR Touching the Face: The Ethics of Visuality between Levinas and a Rembrandt Self Portrait	93	(19)
Renée van de Vall
FIVE Presence and Absence: On Leonardo da Vinci's Saint John the Baptist	112	(20)
Robert Zwijnenberg
SIX Rococo as the Dissipation of Boredom	132	(24)
F.R. Ankersiiiit
SEVEN Mourning and Method	156	(23)
Michael Ann Holly
EIGHT A Guide to Interpretation: Art Historical Hermeneutics	179	(32)
Oskar Bätschmann
NINE Seeing Soane Seeing You	211	(26)
Donald Preziosi
Contributors	237