The Art of Reception
- Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publisher, (c)2020.
- 1 online resource (499 pages)
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- The Art of Quotation -- From Survival of Peril to an Ideology of Total Annihilation -- Venus in the Mirror -- Sarcophagus S. Maria Antiqua -- Lying in the Arms ... -- Reception of Greek Sculpture as a Phenomenon of the Modern Art of Graves -- Reconstruction as Transformation -- Between Dalí, Spitzweg, and Altdorfer -- Foreignness and Familiarity in Hannah Höch's Photomontage Series "From an Ethnographic Museum" -- More Than (Just) Images! -- The Art of Visualising Eye Movements -- Is the Face Considered the 'Mirror of the Soul'? Japanese "Idols" in Trans-Cultural Reception -- Homo immergens -- Federico Zuccari's Dante Historiato -- "[... die Autorität der Antichen [..."
This book deals with processes of reception in visual arts. Images (in the broadest sense) from different cultures and times are examined. The volume focuses on two key interpretations of reception. On the one hand, reception is understood as a concept of repetition and revision spanning different cultures and time periods. On the other hand, reception is also seen as the process of perceiving images. Both ways of understanding can be described by the metaphor of migration of images: in the first case, images migrate from one medium to another; in the second case, they migrate from the artefac.