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Treasuring the gaze: intimate vision in late eighteenth-century eye miniatures

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An overlooked episode of vision's history -- Intimate vision: the portrait miniature's structure of address -- Gazing games: eye portraits and the two sexes of sight -- The crying image: the withdrawal of the gaze -- Intimate as extimate: the gaze as part-object -- The face becoming eye: portraiture's minimum -- The eye portrait's afterlife.

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    Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012, ©2012

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    1750-1850

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    • 9780226309668
    • 0226309711
    • 0226309665
    • 9780226309712

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