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Art, Agency and Living Presence

From the Animated Image to the Excessive Object

Caroline van Eck author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:De Gruyter

Published:16th Feb '15

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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.

ISBN: 9783110345414

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 857g

274 pages