A leading art historian's plea for a more engaged reading of Italian Renaissance art Only Connect constructs a history of Renaissance paintings and sculptures that are by design completed outside themselves by the spectator, that draw the spectator into their narrative plot or aesthetic functioning, and that reposition the spectator imaginatively or in time and space. John Shearman's concern is mostly with anterior relationships with the viewer--that is, relationships conceived and constructed as part of a work's design ...
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A leading art historian's plea for a more engaged reading of Italian Renaissance art Only Connect constructs a history of Renaissance paintings and sculptures that are by design completed outside themselves by the spectator, that draw the spectator into their narrative plot or aesthetic functioning, and that reposition the spectator imaginatively or in time and space. John Shearman's concern is mostly with anterior relationships with the viewer--that is, relationships conceived and constructed as part of a work's design, making, and positioning. He proposes unconventional ways in which works of art may be distinguished from one another, and in which spectators may be distinguished as well, and enlarges the accepted field of artistic invention. Only Connect challenges us to recognize the presuppositions of Renaissance artists about their viewers, shining a light on the process of discovery by some of the most inventive and intellectual artists of the period.
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Very good in very good jacket. Illustrated (color and b/w). 281 pages. 4to., brown cloth (damp-stained at bottom of spine and dust wrapper but internally clean). Washington, D.C. : The National Gallery of Art, (1992). Very good. The A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, 1988. Bollingen Series XXXV.
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VG-(Fine interior; Light wear to dj. extremities; fading to dj cover; previous owner's name written on first page; remainder mark on bottom) Brown cloth over boards; Color pictorial dj.; 281 pp.; 25 color plates, 201 bw figures. The 37th volume in the A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts; From the jacket: "...the first attempt to construct a history of those Renaissance paintings and sculptures that are by design completed outside themselves in or by the spectator, that embrace the spectator into their narrative plot or aesthetic functioning."
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