{"product_id":"beholding-9781350088405","title":"Beholding","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeholding \u003c\/i\u003econsiders the spatially situated encounter between artwork and spectator. It argues that artworks created for specific places or conditions structure a reciprocal encounter, which is completed by the presence of a beholder. These are works which demand the ''beholder''s share'', but not, as Ernst Gombrich famously claimed, to sustain an illusion. Rather, \u003ci\u003eBeholding \u003c\/i\u003ereconfigures Gombrich''s notion of the beholder''s share as a set of ''licensed'' imaginative and cognitive projections.Each chapter frames a particular work of art from the remit of a complementary theoretical text. The book establishes a transhistorical notion of the spatially situated encounter, and considers the role of the architectural host in bringing the beholder's orientation into play. The book engages a diverse range of practices: from Renaissance painting and group portraiture to intermedia practices of installation and performance art. Written within the broad remit of reception aesthetics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA beautifully-written interdisciplinary book that acknowledges the permeability of the once strong divisions that separated art, architecture, the cinema and design. Artist and theorist Ken Wilder explains, through his theory of beholding, how the audience’s viewing conditions can shape their understanding of an art work. -- Stephen Farthing, artist, UK\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Plates List of Figures Preface Acknowledgments     Introduction  Part I: Sacred Imagery Chapter 1: The Beholder As Witness Chapter 2: Of Clouds and Terrestrial Beholders Chapter 3: The Melancholic Beholder     Part II: Group Portraiture Chapter 4: The Artist as Beholder Chapter 5: Two Modes of Beholding Chapter 6: Theatricality and the Beholder     PART III: Abstraction Chapter Seven: Beholding a ‘Reversible’ Space Chapter Eight: Virtual Space and the ‘Literal’ Beholder Chapter Nine: On Repetition and Beholding  PART IV: Intermedia Chapter Ten: The Complicit Beholder Chapter Eleven: The Beholder in the Expanded Field Chapter Twelve: The Dislocated Beholder  Bibliography Notes","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407505465687,"sku":"9781350088405","price":100.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350088405.jpg?v=1730499605","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/beholding-9781350088405","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}