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Author Grootenboer, Hanneke, author.

Title Treasuring the gaze : intimate vision in late eighteenth-century eye miniatures / Hanneke Grootenboer
Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2012
©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 223 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction: An overlooked episode in vision's history -- 1. Intimate vision: the portrait miniature's structure of address -- 2. Gazing games: eye portraits and the two sexes of sight -- 3. The crying image: the withdrawal of the gaze -- 4. Intimate as extimate: the gaze as part-object -- 5. The face becoming eye: portraiture's minimum -- Conclusion: The eye portrait's afterlife
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Eye in art -- History -- 18th century
Gaze in art -- History -- 18th century
Portrait miniatures -- Europe -- History -- 18th century
Visual perception in art.
Intimacy (Psychology) in art.
CRAFTS & HOBBIES -- Miniatures.
Eye in art
Gaze in art
Intimacy (Psychology) in art
Portrait miniatures
Visual perception in art
Europe
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780226309712
0226309711