Understanding art objects : thinking through the eye /
Understanding art objects : thinking through the eye /
Thinking through the eye
edited by Tony Godfrey ; with essays by Megan Aldrich ... [et al.].
- Farnham, Surrey, UK ; Burlington, VT : Lund Humphries, 2009.
- 176 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.
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.
9781848220164 1848220162
2009920796
GBA950243 bnb
015262018 Uk
Art appreciation.
Art objects.
Aesthetics.
N7477 / .U53 2009
701/.18
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.
9781848220164 1848220162
2009920796
GBA950243 bnb
015262018 Uk
Art appreciation.
Art objects.
Aesthetics.
N7477 / .U53 2009
701/.18