Treasuring The Gaze

Author : Hanneke Grootenboer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226309711
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Treasuring the Gaze written by Hanneke Grootenboer and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Worn as brooches or pendants, these minuscule eyes served the same emotional need as more conventional mementoes, such as lockets containing a coil of a loved one’s hair. The fashion lasted only a few decades, and by the early 1800s eye miniatures had faded into oblivion. Unearthing these portraits in Treasuring the Gaze, Hanneke Grootenboer proposes that the rage for eye miniatures—and their abrupt disappearance—reveals a knot in the unfolding of the history of vision. Drawing on Alois Riegl, Jean-Luc Nancy, Marcia Pointon, Melanie Klein, and others, Grootenboer unravels this knot, discovering previously unseen patterns of looking and strategies for showing. She shows that eye miniatures portray the subject’s gaze rather than his or her eye, making the recipient of the keepsake an exclusive beholder who is perpetually watched. These treasured portraits always return the looks they receive and, as such, they create a reciprocal mode of viewing that Grootenboer calls intimate vision. Recounting stories about eye miniatures—including the role one played in the scandalous affair of Mrs. Fitzherbert and the Prince of Wales, a portrait of the mesmerizing eye of Lord Byron, and the loss and longing incorporated in crying eye miniatures—Grootenboer shows that intimate vision brings the gaze of another deep into the heart of private experience. With a host of fascinating imagery from this eccentric and mostly forgotten yet deeply private keepsake, Treasuring the Gaze provides new insights into the art of miniature painting and the genre of portraiture.

Author : Tony Reinke
Publisher : Crossway
ISBN 13 : 1433563827
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Competing Spectacles written by Tony Reinke and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2019-04-17 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in a world full of shiny distractions, faced with an onslaught of viral media constantly competing for our attention and demanding our affections. These ever-present visual “spectacles” can quickly erode our hearts, making it more difficult than ever to walk through life actively treasuring that which is most important and yet invisible: Jesus Christ. In a journalistic style, Tony Reinke shows us just how distracting these spectacles in our lives have become and calls us to ask critical questions about what we’re focusing on. The book offers us practical steps to redirect our gaze away from the addictive eye candy of the world and onto the Ultimate Spectacle—leading to the joy and rest our souls crave.

Author : Joe Treasure
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780330448314
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Male Gaze written by Joe Treasure and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2008 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Parker is disoriented: emotionally, professionally, and far, far from home. The dynamism of LA - all cosmetic perfection and streams of racing traffic - is too much after leafy Tufnell Park, and his wife's grace in embracing their new life unnerves him.

Author : Kathleen Fuller
Publisher : Thomas Nelson Inc
ISBN 13 : 1595547754
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Treasuring Emma written by Kathleen Fuller and published by Thomas Nelson Inc. This book was released on 2011 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raising her siblings after their parents' deaths, Emma has always put their needs above her own, but when her first love, Adam, returns to the community of Middlefield, he tries to convince her to make decisions for herself.

Author : Guan Shen
Publisher : Funstory
ISBN 13 : 1649356358
Total Pages : 539 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Treasure Identifying Divine Eyes written by Guan Shen and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-05-28 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lin Xi, the pawnbroker who was about to lose his job, coincidentally obtained a pair of Heaven's Eyes from the jade pendant his master left behind. He wanted to see how Lin Xi would grow up, pick up treasures while growing up, and play the strings of fate. A pair of Heaven's Eyes could detect treasure, avoid disaster, and drive away evil. However, what secrets did it hide ...

Author : Simon Schama
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 9780375709814
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rembrandt's Eyes written by Simon Schama and published by Knopf. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Available for the first time in paperback is Schama's magnificent rendering of the genius of Rembrandt--both a biography and an exploration of the art itself--that makes it clear why after 350 years he continues to be regarded the greatest of painters. 352 full-color and b&w illustrations.

Author : Joe Rigney
Publisher : Crossway
ISBN 13 : 1433544768
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Things of Earth written by Joe Rigney and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2014-12-31 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God’s world is full of good things. Ice-cold lemonade. The laughter of children. College football. Scrambled eggs and crispy bacon. A late night with old friends around a blazing campfire. God certainly knows how to give good gifts to his children. But where is the line when it comes to enjoying all the pleasurable things our world affords? In The Things of Earth, professor Joe Rigney offers perplexed Christians a breath of fresh air by lifting the burden of false standards and impossible expectations related to the Christian life—freeing readers to gratefully embrace every good thing we receive from the hand of God. Helping us avoid our tendency to forget the Giver on the one hand and neglect his gifts on the other, this much-needed book reminds us that God’s blessings should drive us to worship and that a passion for God’s glory can be as wide as the world itself.

Author : Sally Clarkson
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1414391285
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Own Your Life written by Sally Clarkson and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world that's moving so fast, it's easy to lose your sense of purpose. Clarkson journeys with you to explore what it means to live meaningfully, follow God truly, and bring much-needed order to your chaos. Discover what it means to own your life, and dare to trust God's hands as He richly shapes your character, family, work, and soul.

Author : Hanneke Grootenboer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226309703
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rhetoric of Perspective written by Hanneke Grootenboer and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2006-12-31 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perspective determines how we, as viewers, perceive painting. We can convince ourselves that a painting of a bowl of fruit or a man in a room appears to be real by the way these objects are rendered. Likewise, the trick of perspective can prevent us from being absorbed in a scene. Connecting contemporary critical theory with close readings of seventeenth-century Dutch visual culture, The Rhetoric of Perspective puts forth the claim that painting is a form of thinking and that perspective functions as the language of the image. Aided by a stunning full-color gallery, Hanneke Grootenboer proposes a new theory of perspective based on the phenomenological aspects of non-narrative still-life, trompe l'oeil, and anamorphic imagery. Drawing on playful and mesmerizing baroque images, Grootenboer characterizes what she calls their "sophisticated deceit," asserting that painting is more about visual representation than about its supposed objects. Offering an original theory of perspective's impact on pictorial representation, the act of looking, and the understanding of truth in painting, Grootenboer shows how these paintings both question the status of representation and explore the limits and credibility of perception. “An elegant and honourable synthesis.”—Keith Miller, Times Literary Supplement

Author : University of Mississippi Museum and Historic Houses
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496822412
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Beautiful Mysterious written by University of Mississippi Museum and Historic Houses and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2019-05-31 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributions by Megan Abbott, Michael Almereyda, Kris Belden-Adams, Maude Schuyler Clay, William Dunlap, W. Ralph Eubanks, William Ferris, Marti A. Funke, Lisa Howorth, Amanda Malloy, Richard McCabe, Emily Ballew Neff, Robert Saarnio, and Anne Wilkes Tucker The Beautiful Mysterious: The Extraordinary Gaze of William Eggleston is an examination of the life and work of the artist widely considered to be the father of color photography. William Eggleston was born in 1939 and grew up in the Mississippi Delta town of Sumner. His innovative 1976 exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York helped establish color photography as an artistic medium and has inspired photographers and artists around the world. Edited by Ann J. Abadie, the catalog contains fifty-five Eggleston photographs, thirty-six that were featured in The Beautiful Mysterious exhibition at the University of Mississippi Museum from September 2016 to February 2017. Eggleston’s longtime friend William Ferris, a celebrated folklorist, donated all the photographs to the Museum. The photographs range from 1962 into the 1980s, representing each of Eggleston’s projects during that time. Some of the photographs are inscribed with Eggleston’s rare handwritten notes about location, people, dates, and projects. Eight of Eggleston’s early dye transfers are in the collection. Many of these works had not been on public display before this exhibition, including black-and-white images that are unique-copy single prints. This is a penetrating examination of the influence of the Mississippi Delta and the American South on Eggleston’s work and of Eggleston’s influence on photography and other creative fields.