DUTCH

Levende Beelden: Kunst werken en Kijken

By Caroline van Eck , Stijn Bussels

Book information

Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Year
2011
ISBN
9087281110, 9789087281113
Google Books ID
NFylgHbZNUgC
Language
dutch
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2649071 bytes)
Pages
129\129
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

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.

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