Dealing with the Visual : Art History, Aesthetics and Visual Culture (Paperback)

Contents: Introduction, Caroline van Eck and Edward Winters; Part I The experience of the visual in Art History, Aesthetics and Visual Culture: Visual culture and the history of art, David Peters Corbett; Space without hiding places: Merleau-Ponty's remarks on linear perspective, Ren van de Vall; Aesthetics and visual culture: looking at Andrew Pankhurst‘s Night Painting, Edward Winters; Ought painting be allowed to die?, Derek Matravers; Part II Elucidating the Visual: Marcus Gheeraerdts Captain Thomas Lee, Lucy Gent; Painting and visuality in Van Dyck‘s Self-portrait with a Sunflower, John Peacock; Sacred contagion: secular jewellery and votive transvaluation at the Santa Casa, Loreto, 1720-1820, Marcia Pointon; Villas and vision: looking at Palladio‘s villas from the road, Lex Hermans; Staged experiences: the church designs of Nicholas Hawksmoor, Sophie Ploeg; The unreliable eye: the decline of vision as a reliable source of knowledge in Dutch architectural theory of the nineteenth century, Petra Brouwer; Mies van der Rohe - drawing in space, Victoria Watson; Shadow, shading and outline in architectural engraving from Fr t to Letarouilly, Nicholas Savage; Bibliography; Index.