Treasuring the Gaze : Intimate Vision in Late Eighteenth-Century Eye Miniatures
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0226309665
ISBN-13
9780226309668
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Imprint
University of Chicago Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 5th, 2013
Print length
300 Pages
Weight
1,006 grams
Dimensions
26.10 x 18.60 x 2.40 cms
Product Classification:
History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800Painting & paintings
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The end of the eighteenth century saw the start of a new craze in Europe: tiny portraits of single eyes that were exchanged by lovers or family members. Unearthing these portraits, the author proposes that the rage for eye miniatures - and their abrupt disappearance - reveals a knot in the unfolding of the history of vision.
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