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1 online resource (96 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Summary |
Throughout the ages, and all over the world people have treated works of art as if they were living beings. This has until recently been dismissed as idolatry or fetishism. 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Idols and images in art.
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Idols and images in art. |
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Idols and images -- Worship.
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Idols and images -- Worship. |
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Art appreciation.
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Art appreciation. |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Bussels, Stijn.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Levende beelden. Kunst werken en kijken. Leiden : Leiden University Press 2011 9789087281113 (OCoLC)706649916 |
| ISBN |
9789400600300 (electronic book) |
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9400600305 (electronic book) |
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9789087281113 |
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9087281110 |
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