Understanding art objects
Subtitle: thinking through the eye
By: edited by Tony Godfrey ; with essays by Megan Aldrich ... [et al.].
Contributors: Godfrey, Tony.; Aldrich, Megan Brewster.
Publisher: Lund Humphries
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, UK; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9781848220164
Subjects: Art appreciation; Art objects; Aesthetics
Other titles: Thinking through the eye
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 172-173) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. What, where and when : how and why we look at works o art / Tony Godfrey; title: What? John Singleton Copley's miniature self-portrait and portrait of Moses Gill / Carrie Rebora Barratt ; The Countess of Dysart's backstools / Megan Aldrich ; What's in a box? The many layers of a seventeenth-century lacquer casket / Julia Hutt ; Joseph Kosuth's One and three chairs, 1965 / Eugene Tan ; David Reed : No. 286-2, 1990-2 / Tony Godfrey; title: Where? A l'enseigne de Gersaint by Jean-Antoine Watteau : from shop sign to masterpiece / Catherine Morel ; Kabuto with symbolic tower and Kazari : displaying the decorative in Edo Japan / James Malpas ; The eroticised Victorian child : Mrs Holford's daughter / Juliet Hacking ; 127 cuerpos : Teresa Margolles and the aesthetics of commemoration / Anthony Downey; title: When? The Jenkins Venus : reception in the art world and the market / David Bellingham ; On the wings of a dove : Jacob Epstein's Doves, third version, 1914-15 / Bernard Vere ; Marcel Breuer's Wassily chair : a design icon of the 1920s / Elisabeth Darby ; Gerhard Richter's Tante Marianne revisited / Anna Moszynska.