thurnauer: vt and vi, to paint in the second person

Many of the figures in Thurnauer’s paintings who fix us with their gaze have been borrowed from the work of Manet, the artist who organized so many of his paintings around a face-to-face confrontation of viewer and work. The painting returns the viewer’s gaze with total impartiality, making us see o...

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Main Author: Rod Mengham
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Lodz University Press 2015-11-01
Series:Text Matters
Online Access:https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/textmatters/article/view/6557