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100 1 _aHouston, Kerr.
245 1 4 _aThe Place of the Viewer :
_bThe Embodied Beholder in the History of Art, 1764-1968.
250 _a1st ed.
264 1 _aBoston :
_bBRILL,
_c2019.
264 4 _c©2019.
300 _a1 online resource (282 pages)
336 _atext
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505 0 _aIntro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Figures -- Introduction -- 1 "A Hundred Different Points of View": Baudelaire and the Place ofthe Viewer -- 2 A Brief Prehistory of Interest in the Physical Viewer -- 3 The Place of the Viewer: Perspectives and Approaches -- Chapter 1 The Communicative Viewpoint: Photography, Frontality, and Multiplicity in the 1800s -- 1 Art History, Distance, and the Photograph -- 2 "When a Choice Has Been Made": Talbot, Ruskin, and the Place of the Photographer -- 3 Photography as Language: Subjective and Objective Viewpoints in the 1850s -- 4 Constructed Viewpoints: Art History, Photography, and Related Discourses, 1860-1880 -- 5 Remote Viewing: Connoisseurship and Photography in the Late 1800s -- 6 The Appeal of die reine Frontansicht: German-language Scholarship in the 1890s -- 7 The Center Cannot Hold: Multiple Viewpoints in the Early 1900s -- 8 Conclusion -- Chapter 2 The Beholder in Motion: Kinetic Viewership -- 1 Introduction: Recent Assertions about Kinetic Viewership -- 2 Landskips and Kinema: towards a Prehistory of the Kinetic Viewer -- 3 Freud and Moses, Empathy and Kinesis -- 4 Space, Time, and the Work of Art in the 1920s and 1930s -- 5 Motion and Nomenclature: the Arrival of the Kinetic Viewer -- 6 Conclusion -- Chapter 3 The Body Physical, the Body Politic: Incorporated Viewership in the 1960s -- 1 Sides at War: Viewership and the Viewer in the 1960s -- 2 The Active Viewer: Politics and Artistic Discourses, c. 1960 -- 3 Embodied Poses: Leo Steinberg and Kinesthetic Empathy -- 4 Ideas in Translation: Gestalt Theory and Phenomenology -- 5 The Place of the Viewer in 'Art and Objecthood' -- 6 Conclusion -- Epilogue Art History and the Place of the Viewer since 1968 -- 1 The "Idea of the Spectator": Theorizations of the Audience, c. 1972 -- 2 The Persistent Centrality of the Viewer -- Bibliography -- Index.
520 _aIn The Place of the Viewer, Kerr Houston offers a richly detailed chronological overview of art historians' evolving attempts to account for the physical position of the viewer in discussing works of art.
588 _aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590 _aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650 0 _aArt-Psychology.
650 0 _aArt criticism-History.
655 4 _aElectronic books.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aHouston, Kerr
_tThe Place of the Viewer
_dBoston : BRILL,c2019
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797 2 _aProQuest (Firm)
856 4 0 _uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=5842348
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