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The secret lives of artworks: exploring the boundaries between art and life

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    Secret lives of art works

Abstract

This book is a collection of essays on the phenomenon that viewers treat works of art as living beings: they attribute life, personhood and agency to them, kiss them, beat them, or claim that portraits look at viewers, and that statues move, breathe and speak. This volume engages in existent theories of these phenomena in art history, psychology, aesthetics and anthropology developed by the members of the Leiden 'Art, Agency and Living Presence' group.

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    Leiden: Leiden University Press, ©2014

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    • 9087281390
    • 9789087281397

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    This volume originated in a conference at Leiden University, June 2011

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