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On Reflection

On Reflection

On Reflection Hardback - 1998

by Jonathan Miller

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Yale University Press, 1998. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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  • Title On Reflection
  • Author Jonathan Miller
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First edition
  • Condition Used - Very good
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Yale University Press, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 1998
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G0300077130I4N00
  • ISBN 9780300077131 / 0300077130
  • Weight 2.68 lbs (1.22 kg)
  • Dimensions 11.26 x 9.15 x 0.87 in (28.60 x 23.24 x 2.21 cm)
  • Category Art & Art Instruction
  • Library of Congress subjects Reflections, Art - Philosophy
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 98-66560
  • Dewey Decimal Code 701.8
  • Quantity available 2

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From the publisher

European painting has long aspired to hold a mirror to nature -- and in so doing has taken up the challenge of representing the effects of light on reflective surfaces. In this beautiful book, Jonathan Miller investigates the pictorial representation of sheen, shine, glimmer, and gleam through a wonderfully varied selection of paintings and photographs drawn from the National Gallery, London, and other international collections.

Miller describes our perceptual opacity to recognize real-life mirrors as well as those in pictures, a complex psychological process of which we are usually unaware. He also traces the ambivalent imagery of mirrors from neutral aids to representing the self, as in Rembrandt's Self Portrait or Velazquez' Rokeby Venus, through metaphors of either virtues or vices in allegorical paintings -- such as Le Tournier's Allegory of Justice and Vanity and Otto Dix's Woman Before a Mirror. The extent to which a surface reflects a recognizable image varies enormously, and Miller investigates the full range, from the diffuse sheen of polished leather or burnished copper to the representational realism of silvered glass. He shows that the depiction of such variously reflective surfaces has challenged the virtuosity of artists as diverse as Rembrant and Rockwell for more than two thousand years.

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