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Only Connect : Art and the Spectator in the Italian Renaissance / John K.G. Shearman.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts ; 35Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2023]Copyright date: ©1992Description: 1 online resource (286 p.) : 231 b/w illusContent type:
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  • 9780691252728
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 709.4509024 23//eng/20231023eng
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- I. A More Engaged Spectator -- II. A Shared Space -- III. Portraits and Poets -- IV. Domes -- V. History, and Energy -- VI. Imitation, and the Slow Fuse -- Sources of Illustration -- Index
Summary: A leading art historian’s plea for a more engaged reading of Italian Renaissance artOnly Connect constructs a history of Renaissance paintings and sculptures that are by design completed outside themselves by the spectator, that draw the spectator into their narrative plot or aesthetic functioning, and that reposition the spectator imaginatively or in time and space. John Shearman’s concern is mostly with anterior relationships with the viewer—that is, relationships conceived and constructed as part of a work’s design, making, and positioning. He proposes unconventional ways in which works of art may be distinguished from one another, and in which spectators may be distinguished as well, and enlarges the accepted field of artistic invention. Only Connect challenges us to recognize the presuppositions of Renaissance artists about their viewers, shining a light on the process of discovery by some of the most inventive and intellectual artists of the period.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- I. A More Engaged Spectator -- II. A Shared Space -- III. Portraits and Poets -- IV. Domes -- V. History, and Energy -- VI. Imitation, and the Slow Fuse -- Sources of Illustration -- Index

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A leading art historian’s plea for a more engaged reading of Italian Renaissance artOnly Connect constructs a history of Renaissance paintings and sculptures that are by design completed outside themselves by the spectator, that draw the spectator into their narrative plot or aesthetic functioning, and that reposition the spectator imaginatively or in time and space. John Shearman’s concern is mostly with anterior relationships with the viewer—that is, relationships conceived and constructed as part of a work’s design, making, and positioning. He proposes unconventional ways in which works of art may be distinguished from one another, and in which spectators may be distinguished as well, and enlarges the accepted field of artistic invention. Only Connect challenges us to recognize the presuppositions of Renaissance artists about their viewers, shining a light on the process of discovery by some of the most inventive and intellectual artists of the period.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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