Only Connect: Art and the Spectator in the Italian Renaissance

by John Shearman

Book Overview

A leading art historian's plea for a more engaged reading of Italian Renaissance art Only Connect constructs a history of Renaissance paintings and sculptures that are by design completed outside themselves by the spectator, that draw the spectator into their narrative plot or aesthetic functioning, and that reposition the spectator imaginatively or in time and space. John Shearman's concern is mostly with anterior relationships with the viewer--that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691099723
• ISBN13: 9780691099729
• Release Date: October 1992
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 2.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.0" x 10.5"