Levende Beelden: Kunst Werken En Kijken
Paperback Published on: 10/06/2011; Language: Dutch; Flemish
Price: £17.50
Synopsis
In Levende beelden we meet viewers from ancient Greece who tried to sleep with Praxiteles' statue of Aphrodite and a Venetian aristocrat who spoke daily to the portrait of his beloved. In each case, the authors reconstruct how viewers and contemporaries made sense of these reactions, and draw on present-day insights from anthropology and psychology to understand what made people attribute life, personhood and agency to inanimate objects.
Publisher information
- Publisher: Leiden University Press
- ISBN: 9789087281113
- Dimensions: 190 x 145 mm
- Weight: 177g
- Languages: Dutch; Flemish


