Art, Agency and Living Presence: From the Animated Image to the Excessive Object

Caroline van Eck

Published by De Gruyter (A) 2015

Art, Agency and Living Presence

From the Animated Image to the Excessive Object

Caroline van Eck

Volume 16 in the series Studien aus dem Warburg-Haus

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110345568

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About this book

Throughout history, and all over the world, viewers have treated works of art as if they are living beings: speaking to them, falling in love with them, kissing or beating them. Although over the past 20 years the catalogue of individual cases of such behavior towards art has increased immensely, there are few attempts at formulating a theoretical account of them, or writing the history of how such responses were considered, defined or understood. That is what this book sets out to do: to reconstruct some crucial chapters in the history of thought about such reflections in Western Europe, and to offer some building blocks towards a theoretical account of such responses, drawing on the work of Aby Warburg and Alfred Gell.

First study to combine a history of Western thought about viewers' treatments of statues as living beings
Combines artistic, art historical, psychological, and
anthropological aspects of the theme

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Caroline van Eck, Leiden University, Netherlands.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
Part One
Enargeia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
Agency Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
Memory Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
Part Two
Idolatry Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
Fetishism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
Aesthetic Ambivalence Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
Part Three
Farming, Staging and Acting Living Presence Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
The Afterlife of Art Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
Epilogue: From the Animated Image to the Excessive Object Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
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List of Illustrations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter (A)
Audience: Art and cultural scholars
Pages
- Main content: 274
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 64
- Coloured Illustrations: 16

eBook

Published: March 10, 2015
ISBN: 9783110345568

Hardcover

Published: February 16, 2015
ISBN: 9783110345414