Introduction: An Overlooked Episode in Vision’s History

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Additional Photo Credits xiii
5. Acknowledgments xv
6. Introduction: An Overlooked Episode in Vision’s History 1
7. 1. Intimate Vision: The Portrait Miniature’s Structure of Address 17
8. 2. Gazing Games: Eye Portraits and the Two Sexes of Sight 45
9. 3. The Crying Image: The Withdrawal of the Gaze 89
10. 4. Intimate as Extimate: The Gaze as Part-Object 125
11. 5 The face becoming eye 161
12. Conclusion:The Eye Portrait’s Afterlife 175
13. Notes 181
14. Bibliography 199
15. Index 211