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Understanding art objects : thinking through the eye / edited by Tony Godfrey ; with essays by Megan Aldrich ... [et al.].

Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: Farnham, Surrey, UK ; Burlington, VT : Lund Humphries, 2009.Description: 176 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781848220164
  • 1848220162
Other title:
  • Thinking through the eye
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 701/.18 22
LOC classification:
  • N7477 .U53 2009
Contents:
Introduction. What, where and when : how and why we look at works o art / Tony Godfrey -- What? John Singleton Copley's miniature self-portrait and portrait of Moses Gill / Carrie Rebora Barratt ; The Countess of Dysart's backstools / Megan Aldrich ; What's in a box? The many layers of a seventeenth-century lacquer casket / Julia Hutt ; Joseph Kosuth's One and three chairs, 1965 / Eugene Tan ; David Reed : No. 286-2, 1990-2 / Tony Godfrey -- Where? A l'enseigne de Gersaint by Jean-Antoine Watteau : from shop sign to masterpiece / Catherine Morel ; Kabuto with symbolic tower and Kazari : displaying the decorative in Edo Japan / James Malpas ; The eroticised Victorian child : Mrs Holford's daughter / Juliet Hacking ; 127 cuerpos : Teresa Margolles and the aesthetics of commemoration / Anthony Downey -- When? The Jenkins Venus : reception in the art world and the market / David Bellingham ; On the wings of a dove : Jacob Epstein's Doves, third version, 1914-15 / Bernard Vere ; Marcel Breuer's Wassily chair : a design icon of the 1920s / Elisabeth Darby ; Gerhard Richter's Tante Marianne revisited / Anna Moszynska.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 172-173) and index.

Introduction. What, where and when : how and why we look at works o art / Tony Godfrey -- What? John Singleton Copley's miniature self-portrait and portrait of Moses Gill / Carrie Rebora Barratt ; The Countess of Dysart's backstools / Megan Aldrich ; What's in a box? The many layers of a seventeenth-century lacquer casket / Julia Hutt ; Joseph Kosuth's One and three chairs, 1965 / Eugene Tan ; David Reed : No. 286-2, 1990-2 / Tony Godfrey -- Where? A l'enseigne de Gersaint by Jean-Antoine Watteau : from shop sign to masterpiece / Catherine Morel ; Kabuto with symbolic tower and Kazari : displaying the decorative in Edo Japan / James Malpas ; The eroticised Victorian child : Mrs Holford's daughter / Juliet Hacking ; 127 cuerpos : Teresa Margolles and the aesthetics of commemoration / Anthony Downey -- When? The Jenkins Venus : reception in the art world and the market / David Bellingham ; On the wings of a dove : Jacob Epstein's Doves, third version, 1914-15 / Bernard Vere ; Marcel Breuer's Wassily chair : a design icon of the 1920s / Elisabeth Darby ; Gerhard Richter's Tante Marianne revisited / Anna Moszynska.

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