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“I highly recommend the ground breaking and landmark book The Erotics of Looking: Early Modern Netherlandish Art edited by Angela Vanhaelen, Ph.D., and Bronwen Wilson, Ph.D., to any students of art and art history, academics in the field, art gallery owners and managers, art collectors and dealers, and to anyone interested in the power of the senses and sensuality found in the interaction between artist and viewer. This book will transform the way the artists of the early modern Dutch period approached their vision, their works, and their engagement with the viewer of the paintings.” (Blog Business World, 16 August 2013)
Table of Contents
6 Notes on Contributors
8 Chapter 1 The Erotics of Looking: Materiality, Solicitation and Netherlandish Visual Culture
Angela Vanhaelen and Bronwen Wilson
20 Chapter 2 Beer and Loafing in Antwerp
Bret Rothstein
42 Chapter 3 Perspectives in Flux: Viewing Dutch Pictures in Real Time
Celeste Brusati
68 Chapter 4 Entropic Segers
Christopher P. Heuer
92 Chapter 5 The Turn of the Skull: Andreas Vesalius and the Early Modern Memento Mori
Rose Marie San Juan
110 Chapter 6 Laying the Table: The Procedures of Still Life
Joanna Woodall
138 Chapter 7 Boredom’s Threshold: Dutch Realism
Angela Vanhaelen
158 Chapter 8 Response: Art/Matter(s)
Larry Silver
170 Chapter 9 Response: On the Impulse of Mapping, or How a Flat Earth Theory of Dutch Maps Distorts the Thickness and Pictorial Proclivities of Early Modern Dutch Cartography (and Misses Its Picturing Impulse)
Benjamin Schmidt
184 Chapter 10 Response: Reflections on Temporality in Netherlandish Art
Lyle Massey
192 Chapter 11 Response: The Work of Realism
Bronwen Wilson
209 Index
