Conditions of visibility

by Neer, Richard T.

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Title Statements

Full title :Conditions of visibility / edited by Richard Neer.

Summary

We often assume that works of visual art are meant to be seen. Yet that assumption may be a modern prejudice. The ancient world - from China to Greece, Rome to Mexico - provides many examples of statues, paintings, and other images that were not intended to be visible. Instead of being displayed, they were hidden, buried, or otherwise obscured. In this third volume in the 'Visual Conversations in Art & Archaeology' series, leading scholars working at the intersection of archaeology and the history of art address the fundamental question of art's visibility. What conditions must be met, what has to be in place, for a work of art to be seen at all? The answer is both historical and methodological; it concerns ancient societies and modern disciplines, and encompasses material circumstances, perceptual capacities, technologies of visualization, protocols of classification, and a great deal more. The emerging field of archaeological art history is uniquely suited to address such questions. Intrinsically comparative, this approach cuts across traditional ethnic, religious, and chronological categories to confront the academic present with the historical past. The goal is to produce a new art history that is at once cosmopolitan in method and global in scope, and in doing so establish new ways of seeing - new conditions of visibility - for shared objects of study.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2019
Edition:First edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:Oxford, United Kingdom
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2019

The Physical Object

Description:xvi, 150 pages : : illustrations (some color) ; : 26 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780198845560, 0198845561
oclc:on1097578222
LC Classification:N72.A73
Dewey Decimal:701.1

Three types of invisibility : the Acropolis of Athens / Richard Neer -- What lies beneath : carving on the underside of Aztec sculpture / Claudia Brittenham -- Concealment and revelation : the Pola casket and the visuality of early Christian relics / Jaś Elsner -- The archaeology of passage : reading invisibility in Chinese tombs / Wu Hung.

Subjects

Archaeology and art Archéologie et art Archéologie et art -- Antiquité Art -- Appréciation -- Antiquité Art -- Collections privées Art -- Private collections Art antique -- Thèmes, motifs Art appreciation Optique physique -- Dans l'art