ART AND THE COMMITTED EYE : the cultural functions of imagery.: the cultural functions of imagery. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Names: LEPPERT, RICHARD
• Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Color Plates; Acknowledgments; PART ONE Sights/Sites for Seeing; Introduction; Outlining the Territory; Seeing and the Social Practice of Making Sense; Seeing to Know, Knowing to See; Limits of Engagement; Basic Principles: Conventions, Social Interests, and Memory; Intention, Function, and History; Institutional Frames for Art; Privileged Seeing: Painting and Power; 1 Representation and the Politics of Deception; Fooling; How to Fool; Doubting Certainty; Representing the Desire to See; Painting Painting; Disclaimer Deception and Erotic DesireDeception and the Erotics of Money (Seeing for What It's Worth); PART TWO Object; 2 Still (ed) Life, Beauty, and Regimes of Power; Painting, Possessing, and Identity; Seeing Things to Want Them; Tulip Mania; From Flower Speculation to Flower Fantasy; Denaturalizing the Natural; Social Dynamics, Light, and Time; 3 Death as Object; Vanitas; Death and Information; Eating One's Cake and Still Having It; Vanity and Modernity; Sociality and Death; 4 Death and the Pleasures of Meat; The Social Utility of Representing Dead Animals; Defeating One's Enemy Ritual Hunting as Political SpectacleHunting Game and Corralling Women; Meat and Life; Blood; Meat, Terror, and Burial; PART THREE Body; 5 Sensing; The Sensing Body; Pleasure as Serious Business; Keeping Her Body in Sensory Range; Sensing Difference; 6 Body Examination: Scalpel and Brush; The Body Punished; Anatomy, Knowledge, and Defilement; Vesalius and Skeletal Remains; Painter-Anatomists; Tableaux: Living Death; Art into Data; Fashion and Odor; Erotics of Dissection; Body as Detritus; 7 Portrait: Dramatizing the Body; Portraying in All Seriousness; Confronting the Likeness Putting Face to ThreatMoney and the Look of Modernity; Portraying the Self; Transformations; 8 Others' Bodies: Class and Race; Body Type and the Representation of Social Harmony; The Animalistic Other; Difference and Protest; Controlling Smiles; Farmers' Daughters; The Working Body and Social Order; Orderly Bodies; Color, Racial Difference, and Embodied Fantasy; Measured Difference: A Matter of Black and White; The Evil Other; 9 The Female Nude: Surfaces of Desire; Who's Got the Look?; Needing to See; Originating in Sin; Cold Comforts; Turning the Tables; Figments of an Imagination Colonizing the BodyInviting Revenge; Eve-Again; 10 The Male Nude: Identity and Denial; A Perplexing Sight; Saintly Looks; Phallic Disappointment; Body Reversal?; Youth, Death, and Sanctioned Desire; Phallus as Hidden Delight; Anti-Narcissism and Zones of (Dis) Pleasure; Notes; Works Cited; About the Book and Author; Index
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : ROUTLEDGE
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (1 volume), illustrations
• Subjects: 701.03; Art and society -- Europe; Artists -- Europe -- Psychology; Art and society -- United States; Artists -- United States -- Psychology; Art and society; Artists -- Psychology; ART / General; ART / History / General; Europe; United States; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429034602; 0429034601; 9780429699658; 0429699654; 9780429719660; 0429719663; 9780429739675; 0429739672
• Related ISBNs: 0367004747; 9780367004743
• Notes: Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.