Treasuring the gaze: intimate vision in late eighteenth-century eye miniatures
Auteur :
Grootenboer, Hanneke
Éditeur :
The University of Chicago Press
ISBN :
9780226309668
Date de publication :
5 févr. 2013
Dimensions :
2,6 x 1,9 x 0,3 cm
Poids :
992 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
The end of the eighteenth century saw the start of a new craze in Europe: tiny portraits of single eyes that were exchanged by lovers or family members. Unearthing these portraits, the author proposes that the rage for eye miniatures - and their abrupt disappearance - reveals a knot in the unfolding of the history of vision.