Treasuring the Gaze - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Treasuring the Gaze write by Hanneke Grootenboer. This book was released on 2013-02-05. Treasuring the Gaze available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Competing Spectacles
Competing Spectacles - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Competing Spectacles write by Tony Reinke. This book was released on 2019-04-17. Competing Spectacles available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Male Gaze
The Male Gaze - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Male Gaze write by Joe Treasure. This book was released on 2008. The Male Gaze available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Love and Loss
Love and Loss - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Love and Loss write by Robin Jaffee Frank. This book was released on 2000-01-01. Love and Loss available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Most often, portrait miniatures were painted in watercolor on thin disks of ivory. They were sometimes worn as jewelry, sometimes framed to be viewed privately. Many were painted by specialists, although renowned easel artists - including Benjamin West, John Singleton Copley, and Charles Willson Peale - also created them to commemorate births, engagements, marriages, deaths, and other joinings or separations. The book traces the development of this exquisite art form, revealing the close ties between the history of the miniature and the history of American private life."--BOOK JACKET.
Treasuring Emma
Treasuring Emma - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Treasuring Emma write by Kathleen Fuller. This book was released on 2011. Treasuring Emma available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
