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• Title:[Volmaakte beschouwer. English]
  The perfect spectator : the experience of the art work and reception aesthetics / Janneke Wesseling.
  
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• Author/Creator:Wesseling, Janneke, author.
  
• Published/Created:Amsterdam : Valiz, [2017]
  ©2017
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: N71 .W449 2017
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Arts--Psychology.
  
• Medical Subjects: Visual Perception
  
• Genre/Form:Academic theses.
  
• Description:254 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  
• Series:Vis-à-vis (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
  
• Summary:What happens between a spectator and an art work? How do we experience 'meaning' in an art work? How can the process of interpretation be understood and articulated? To address these questions, the author explores the field of reception aesthetics, with its central premise that the contemplation of art is a matter of interaction between the art work and the observer. The research is focused on unravelling and problematising the theoretical terminology of the interaction between art work and spectator, deriving from reception aesthetics as well as from hermeneutics and phenomenology, with the aim of building a new theoretical foundation for this terminology. Additionally, different concepts of spectatorship are extensively discussed. 'I believe it is more productive to research how the art work works or signifies than what it shows or might signify. This 'how' reveals itself mainly in the performative act of experiencing the work.' This book addresses scholars and students in the fields of art history, aesthetics and visual and cultural studies, as well as artists and art students, and all those art spectators who wish to develop a deeper understanding of the experience of art.
  
• Notes:Revision of the author's thesis originally written in Dutch under title: De volmaakte beschouwer : de ervaring van het kunstwerk en de receptie-esthetica. This is the revised and translated version.
  Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-247) and index.
  
• ISBN:9789080818507
  908081850X
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Reception Aesthetics and Hermeneutics
  ch. 2 Reception Aesthetics of Visual Art
  ch. 3 Internal Critic
  ch. 4 Verticon
  ch. 5 Discourse on Spectatorship.