{"product_id":"the-erotics-of-looking-isbn-9781118465257","title":"The Erotics of Looking","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Erotics of Looking: Early Modern Netherlandish Art\u003c\/i\u003e presents a collection of provocative essays that explore the material qualities of early Dutch art to reveal ways new forms of visual imagery solicit a beholder’s involvement.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplores how descriptive pictures during the early modern Dutch art period operated as social things and were designed to pleasurably engage the eye and prompt discussion and debate\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eShows how these works potentially raised ethical and political questions about the interconnectedness of engaging with pictures and the material world\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eRepresents a major contribution to the field of early modern Netherlandish art and to general debates about the status and functions of descriptive art\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eFeatures essays addressing a variety of aspects of the field, from the historiography of Dutch art to closely attentive readings of particular works\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCrafts an original theoretical framework by applying recent insights about the making of early modern publics and the study of material things to the analysis of Netherlandish art\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  \u003cp\u003e6 Notes on Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Chapter 1 The Erotics of Looking: Materiality, Solicitation and Netherlandish Visual Culture\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAngela Vanhaelen and Bronwen Wilson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 Chapter 2 Beer and Loafing in Antwerp\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBret Rothstein\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e42 Chapter 3 Perspectives in Flux: Viewing Dutch Pictures in Real Time\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCeleste Brusati\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e68 Chapter 4 Entropic Segers\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eChristopher P. Heuer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e92 Chapter 5 The Turn of the Skull: Andreas Vesalius and the Early Modern Memento Mori\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRose Marie San Juan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e110 Chapter 6 Laying the Table: The Procedures of Still Life\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJoanna Woodall\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e138 Chapter 7 Boredom’s Threshold: Dutch Realism\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAngela Vanhaelen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e158 Chapter 8 Response: Art\/Matter(s)\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLarry Silver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e170 Chapter 9 Response: On the Impulse of Mapping, or How a Flat Earth Theory of Dutch Maps Distorts the Thickness and Pictorial Proclivities of Early Modern Dutch Cartography (and Misses Its Picturing Impulse)\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBenjamin Schmidt\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e184 Chapter 10 Response: Reflections on Temporality in Netherlandish Art\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLyle Massey\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e192 Chapter 11 Response: The Work of Realism\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBronwen Wilson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e209 Index\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“I highly recommend the ground breaking and landmark book http:\/\/www.wiley.com\/WileyCDA\/WileyTitle\/productCd-1118465253,subjectCd-AA12.html\"\u003cbr\u003eThe Erotics of Looking: Early Modern Netherlandish Art edited by Angela Vanhaelen, Ph.D., and Bronwen Wilson, Ph.D., to any students of art and art history, academics in the field, art gallery owners and managers, art collectors and dealers, and to anyone interested in the power of the senses and sensuality found in the interaction between artist and viewer. This book will transform the way the artists of the early modern Dutch period approached their vision, their works, and their engagement with the viewer of the paintings.”  (\u003ci\u003eBlog Business World\u003c\/i\u003e, 16 August 2013)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAngela Vanhaelen \u003c\/b\u003eis Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University. Her publications include \u003ci\u003eThe Wake of Iconoclasm: Painting the Church in the Dutch Republic \u003c\/i\u003e(2012).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBronwen Wilson\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor and Head of World Art Studies and Museology at the University of East Anglia. Her publications include \u003ci\u003eThe World in Venice: Print, the City, and Early Modern Identity \u003c\/i\u003e(2005).\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eFrom the slyly suggestive to the overtly erotic, many early modern Dutch and Flemish artworks were designed to attract the eye, and yet the messages they convey are often equivocal. \u003ci\u003eThe Erotics of Looking: Early Modern Netherlandish Art\u003c\/i\u003e presents a collection of provocative essays by leading scholars of art that delve into ways that material and pictorial qualities of descriptive artworks appeal to beholders to become involved with them. Exploring complex interrelations between making, displaying, and engaging with paintings and prints, the volume brings forward mechanisms through which visual imagery fostered new forms of association in early modern Europe. An introductory chapter lays out the innovative theoretical framework, arguing that descriptive pictures operated as social things, encouraging people to engage with them through the pleasures they offered the senses, prompting debate and potentially opening up ethical and political considerations about the interconnectedness of pictures and the material world. Challenging familiar interpretive models of iconography, verisimilitude, and social art history, the essays shift the focus away from a picture’s meaning toward why art matters, toward how artworks solicit beholders and stimulate deliberation. \u003ci\u003eThe Erotics of Looking: Early Modern Netherlandish Art\u003c\/i\u003e not only offers illuminating insights into ways to look at art - it redefines the concept of art itself.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990220062949,"sku":"NP9781118465257","price":40.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781118465257.jpg?v=1761786957","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-erotics-of-looking-isbn-9781118465257","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}