Art, Agency and Living Presence

Art, Agency and Living Presence
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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages : 292
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ISBN-10 : 9783110345568
ISBN-13 : 3110345560
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Book Synopsis Art, Agency and Living Presence by : Caroline van Eck

Download or read book Art, Agency and Living Presence written by Caroline van Eck and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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