Art and Artifice in Visual Culture : Eighteenth Century to the Present (Hardcover)

Introduction: Art and Artifice in a Transcultural Perspective??Part 1: Artifice and Spectatorship??1. Fractured Perception: Drawings, Prints, and?Verres-casses??2. Rococo Aesthetics and the Problem of Trompe l’Oeil? 3. Degas’s ‘Histories’ and the Foreshadowing Artifice of Self-Candaulism??Part 2: Haptic Illusions??4. Suggestive Surfaces: The Self-Referential Texture of Woodgrain in Japanese Woodblock Prints? 5. Reconsidering the Origins of?Yongzheng Guwantu: from the Aniconic Period to?Vimalak?rtinirde?a S?tra??6. Fooling Art History: John F. Peto and William Harnett??Part 3: Alternative Realities??7. First Nations’ Wampum Belts: A Colonial Vision of Artifice in Eighteenth-Century New France? 8. ‘An Opportunity to Grapple with the Picture Plane…’:? The Stereo-Illusion’s History of Frustration? 9. Self-reference and Medium-Reference in Virtual Reality and Trompe l’Oeil