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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Grootenboer, Hanneke
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2012
Subjects:
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.
Table of 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.