Treasuring the Gaze: Intimate Vision in Late Eighteenth-Century Eye Miniatures
Hanneke Grootenboer explores the significance of eye miniatures in the late eighteenth century. Focusing on their intimate scale and concentrated subject matter, this art-historical study considers how these objects connect vision, the gaze, feeling, and remembrance within the culture of their time.
About This Book
Treasuring the Gaze examines eye miniatures produced in the late eighteenth century.
Hanneke Grootenboer considers these small, intimate images through the connected themes of vision and personal experience.
The book focuses on how the gaze could be represented, preserved, and valued through miniature art.
It offers a focused study of the relationship between artistic form, intimacy, and historical understandings of looking.
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