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The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts Ser.: Only Connect : Art and the Spectator in the Italian Renaissance by John K. G. Shearman (1994, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherPrinceton University Press
ISBN-100691019177
ISBN-139780691019178
eBay Product ID (ePID)429765
Product Key Features
Number of Pages308 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameOnly Connect : Art and the Spectator in the Italian Renaissance
Publication Year1994
SubjectGeneral, European, History / Renaissance, History / General
TypeTextbook
AuthorJohn K. G. Shearman
Subject AreaArt, Performing Arts
SeriesThe A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Weight35.1 Oz
Item Length10.5 in
Item Width7 in
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Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN91-027246
Reviews[Shearman's] argument that the observer, in the artist's mind, was as carefully placed, posed and arranged as the content of the work is sustained by considerable intelligence and scholarship. ---Robin Blake, Independent on Sunday, As the author of a brilliant work on Mannerism, in which literature and music were employed to explain characteristic forms, Shearman is eminently qualified for his task. [He] weaves a brilliant account of poetry and painting immortalising the sitter. ---Bruce Boucher, The Times, "In guiding our concentrated attention to the action that unfolds in [a group of paintings by Raphael, Michelangelo, Pontormo, and others that represent the Entombment], the author has taught us to make the relevant connections and thus to see these deeply moving works with fresh eyes." ---E. H. Gombrich, New York Review of Books, "[Shearman's] argument that the observer, in the artist's mind, was as carefully placed, posed and arranged as the content of the work is sustained by considerable intelligence and scholarship." --Robin Blake, Independent on Sunday, In guiding our concentrated attention to the action that unfolds in [a group of paintings by Raphael, Michelangelo, Pontormo, and others that represent the Entombment], the author has taught us to make the relevant connections and thus to see these deeply moving works with fresh eyes. ---E. H. Gombrich, The New York Review of Books, "In guiding our concentrated attention to the action that unfolds in [a group of paintings by Raphael, Michelangelo, Pontormo, and others that represent the Entombment], the author has taught us to make the relevant connections and thus to see these deeply moving works with fresh eyes." --E. H. Gombrich, The New York Review of Books, Winner of the Charles Rufus Morey Award, College Art Association One of Choice 's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1993, Shearman's six lectures contribute significantly to current debates about the interpretation of images, particularly in relation to their reception by the spectators. ---Martin Kemp, The Times Literary Supplement, . . . the author has taught us to make the relevant connections and thus to see these deeply moving works with fresh eyes. ---E. H. Gombrich, The New York Review of Books, "As the author of a brilliant work on Mannerism, in which literature and music were employed to explain characteristic forms, Shearman is eminently qualified for his task. [He] weaves a brilliant account of poetry and painting immortalising the sitter." --Bruce Boucher, The Times (London), "Shearman's six lectures contribute significantly to current debates about the interpretation of images, particularly in relation to their reception by the spectators." ---Martin Kemp, Times Literary Supplement, ". . . the author has taught us to make the relevant connections and thus to see these deeply moving works with fresh eyes." --E. H. Gombrich, The New York Review of Books, "Shearman's six lectures contribute significantly to current debates about the interpretation of images, particularly in relation to their reception by the spectators." --Martin Kemp, The Times Literary Supplement
Dewey Edition20
Series Volume Number37
Dewey Decimal709/.45/09024
SynopsisJohn Shearman makes a plea for a more engaged reading of art works of the Italian Renaissance, one that will recognize the presuppositions of Renaissance artists about their viewers. His book constructs a history of Renaissance paintings and sculptures that are by design completed outside themselves in or by the spectator, that embrace the spectator into their narrative plot or aesthetic functioning, and that reposition the spectator imaginatively or in time and space., A leading art historian's plea for a more engaged reading of Italian Renaissance art Only Connect constructs a history of Renaissance paintings and sculptures that are by design completed outside themselves by the spectator, that draw the spectator into their narrative plot or aesthetic functioning, and that reposition the spectator imaginatively or in time and space. John Shearman's concern is mostly with anterior relationships with the viewer--that is, relationships conceived and constructed as part of a work's design, making, and positioning. He proposes unconventional ways in which works of art may be distinguished from one another, and in which spectators may be distinguished as well, and enlarges the accepted field of artistic invention. Only Connect challenges us to recognize the presuppositions of Renaissance artists about their viewers, shining a light on the process of discovery by some of the most inventive and intellectual artists of the period.
LC Classification NumberN6915.S54 1992
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