van Eck, Caroline. <br/><br/>
Art, Agency and Living Presence :  From the Animated Image to the Excessive Object. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (292 pages) 
 - Studien Aus Dem Warburg-Haus Series ;  v.16 .
 - Studien Aus Dem Warburg-Haus Series .
<br/><br/>Intro -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Rhetoric -- Agency -- Experience and memory -- The animated image: a growing field -- The structure of this book -- Part One -- Enargeia -- Enargeia, ekphrasis and phantasia -- Phantasia -- Phantasia, memory and living presence -- The early modern afterlife of ekphras -- Agency -- Art and agency -- The experience of living presence -- Living presence as agency and experie -- Animacy -- 'Laocoon I am' -- Bellini's Brera Pietà -- Bernini's Medusa -- Memory -- Simulacra in the chambers of memory -- Perception, memory and emotion -- Memory is not an art gallery, but a s -- Ekphrasis as imaginative recollection -- Conclusion -- Part Two -- François Lemée on the Monument of Lou -- A new way of considering idolatry -- The living presence of statues: a que -- Living presence and idolatry -- How to control the undesirable agency -- Conclusion -- 1 Fetishism -- Persuasive figuration as the foundat -- Fetishism -- 'Les rapports intimes des statues av -- 'Le ministre le plus docile des volo -- Conclusion -- Aesthetic Ambivalence -- Pygmalion's dream -- Petrifying statue lovers -- Goethe's gallery of art lovers -- Art fetishism -- Kant's epistemological barrier again -- Conclusion -- Part Three -- Framing, Staging and Acting Living P -- Living presence and a visual history -- Santa Maria del Priorato: anachronis -- 'Killing art to write its history' -- 'Glorious visions of the past' -- 'The presence of reality instead of -- Conclusion -- The Afterlife of Art -- Aby Warburg on the lives of art work -- Pathosformel and Nachleben -- The life of art as an artistic issue -- The agency of lifelikeness -- Mnemosyne: Nachleben as an issue in -- Representation -- Mnemosyne, Nachleben, and historical -- Conclusion -- Epilogue: From the Animated Image to -- 'The appearance of the soul'. Changing appreciations of viewers at -- An anthropological turn -- Excessive and transitional objects -- Homo animans and homo repraesentans -- Notes -- Bibliography -- List of Illustrations -- Index. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9783110345568 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Art -- Psychological aspects.<br/>Art appreciation.<br/>Art and society.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>N71 -- .E25 2015eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>701/.15