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"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. Worn as brooches or pendants, these minuscule eyes served the same emotional need as more conventional mementoes, such as lockets containing a coil of a loved one's hair. The fashion lasted only a few decades, and by the early 1800s eye miniatures had faded into oblivion. Unearthing these portraits in Treasuring the Gaze, Hanneke Grootenboer proposes that the rage for eye miniatures--and their abrupt disappearance--reveals a knot in the unfolding of the history of vision. Drawing on Alois Riegl, Jean-Luc Nancy, Marcia Pointon, Melanie Klein, and others, Grootenboer unravels this knot, discovering previously unseen patterns of looking and strategies for showing. She shows that eye miniatures portray the subject's gaze rather than his or her eye, making the recipient of the keepsake an exclusive beholder who is perpetually watched."--
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Gaze in art, Eye in art, Intimacy (Psychology) in art, Visual perception in art, Portrait miniatures, History, Portraits, Art, europeanPlaces
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Treasuring the Gaze: Intimate Vision in Late Eighteenth-Century Eye Miniatures
2014, University of Chicago Press
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Treasuring the Gaze: Intimate Vision in Late Eighteenth-Century Eye Miniatures
2013, University of Chicago Press
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Treasuring the gaze: intimate vision in late eighteenth-century eye miniatures
2012, University of Chicago Press
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