Sight and Spirituality in Early Netherlandish Painting
Series: Studies in Netherlandish Visual Culture;
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 8 June 2005
- ISBN 9780521832786
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages274 pages
- Size 253x198x24 mm
- Weight 855 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 46 b/w illus. 0
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Short description:
Examines the importance of vision as a narrative and thematic concern in works by different artists.
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Sight and Spirituality in Early Netherlandish Painting examines the importance of vision as a narrative and thematic concern in works by artists such as Jan van Eyck, Petrus Christus, and Roger van der Weyden. Bret Rothstein argues that their paintings invited the viewer to demonstrate a variety of mental skills. Depicting religious visual experience, these works alluded to the imperceptibility of the divine and implicated the viewer's own experience as part of a larger spiritual and intellectual process. Rothstein demonstrates how and why the act of seeing became a highly valued skill, one to be refined and displayed, as well as a source of competition among both artists and patrons.
"Sight and Spirituality in Early Netherlandish Painting is erudite and provocative in ways that will make it a vital resource for much discussion to come[...]As it compels reexamination of how we interpret early Netherlandish paintings, Rothstein's intelligent meditation also demonstrates ways in which we can and should look ever more closely at the elemental kinship between representation and belief." -- CAA Reviews
Table of Contents:
Introduction: forms of interest in early Netherlandish painting. 1. Picturing vision; 2. The imagination of imagelessness; 3. The devotional image as social ornament; 4. Reflexivity and senses of painterly strength; Epilogue: notes on the rise of visual skill.
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