Only Connect: Art and the Spectator in the Italian Renaissance, Vol. 37 - John K.G. Shearman - Hardcover

John Shearman makes a plea for a more engaged reading of art works of the Italian Renaissance, one that will recognize the presuppositions of Renaissance artists about their viewers. His book constructs a history of Renaissance paintings and sculptures that are by design completed outside themselves in or by the spectator, that embrace the spectator into their narrative plot or aesthetic functioning, and that reposition the spectator imaginatively or in time and space.Shearman, John is the author of 'Only Connect: Art and the Spectator in the Italian Renaissance, Vol. 37 - John K.G. Shearman - Hardcover' with ISBN 9780691099729 and ISBN 0691099723.