More than meets the eye : embodied engagement with After the Last Supper

dc.contributor.authorLauwrens, Jennifer
dc.contributor.emailjenni.lauwrens@up.ac.zaen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2019-03-25T07:28:13Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractIn this article I argue that the thread spool installation, After The Last Supper (2005), by American artist, Devorah Sperber, negotiates the relationship between two modes of aesthetic spectatorship which operate in interrelated ways. The first is based on a modernist notion of aesthetic spectatorship as reflectively detached and contemplative, while the second mobilizes a person’s embodied and engaged participation in the work. The installation is investigated here not only as a representation of scientific facts, but rather as a material presentation that elicits embodied responses in active participants. By taking into account the material physicality of the work – its surface, texture and spatial extension – as well as a viewer’s somatic responses to these features, the nature of bodily encounters not only with the installation, but also with images in a digital world, are investigated.en_ZA
dc.description.departmentVisual Artsen_ZA
dc.description.embargo2020-03-05
dc.description.librarianhj2019en_ZA
dc.description.urihttp://tandfonline.com/loi/rcaj20en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationJenni Lauwrens (2018) More than Meets the Eye: Embodied Engagement with After the Last Supper, Art Journal, 77:2, 8-23, DOI: 10.1080/00043249.2018.1495519.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn0004-3249 (print)
dc.identifier.issn2325-5307 (online)
dc.identifier.other10.1080/00043249.2018.1495519
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/68693
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherRoutledgeen_ZA
dc.rights© Taylor and Francis. This is an electronic version of an article published in Art Journal, vol. 77, no. 2, pp. 8-23, 2018. doi : 10.1080/00043249.2018.1495519. Art Journal is available online at : http://tandfonline.com/loi/rcaj20.en_ZA
dc.subjectVisual perceptionen_ZA
dc.subjectLinear perspectiveen_ZA
dc.subjectEngaged aesthetic embodimenten_ZA
dc.subjectHaptic visualityen_ZA
dc.subjectPhenomenologyen_ZA
dc.subjectDigital technologiesen_ZA
dc.subjectFeminist arten_ZA
dc.subjectDisinterested aesthetic spectatorshipen_ZA
dc.titleMore than meets the eye : embodied engagement with After the Last Supperen_ZA
dc.typePostprint Articleen_ZA

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