More than one picture: an art history of the hyperimage

Abstract

"In this volume, the author develops a theory of the hyperimage, arguing that constellations of images on walls or pages have played a major role in the history of art since the seventeenth century"--Provided by publisher.

Contents

Introduction: Practices of the Hyperimage -- Chapter 1. Collectors' Arrangements -- Frans Francken the Younger, circa 1620: En Route to the Pendant Hanging -- Vivant Denon, 1802: The Wall of Pictures as Didactic Showpiece -- Johann Valentin Prehn, ca. 1820: The Collector's Nightmare -- Chapter 2. Art Historians' Image Practice -- Heinrich Wölfflin-1915: Exemplary Pairs -- Aby Warburg, 1929: An Overview of the Whole -- André Malraux, 1947: A Dialogue of Cultures -- Chapter 3. Artists' Hyperimages -- Pablo Picasso, 1912: The Painter Photographs the Sounds of a Cardboard Guitar -- Pierre Bonnard, 1944/46: The Studio Wall as Aesthetic Repository -- Wolfgang Tillmans, 2000: If One Thing Matters, Everything Matters.