{"product_id":"living-pictures-noa-turel-9780300247572","title":"Living Pictures: Jan Van Eyck and Painting's First Century","description":"\u003cb\u003eA significant new interpretation of the emergence of Western pictorial realism\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e When Jan van Eyck (c. 1390-1441) completed the revolutionary Ghent Altarpiece in 1432, it was unprecedented in European visual culture. His novel visual strategies, including lifelike detail, not only helped make painting the defining medium of Western art, they also ushered in new ways of seeing the world. This highly original book explores Van Eyck's pivotal work, as well as panels by Rogier van der Weyden and their followers, to understand how viewers came to appreciate a world depicted in two dimensions. Through careful examination of primary documents, Noa Turel reveals that paintings were consistently described as \u003ci\u003eau vif: \u003c\/i\u003e made not \"from life\" but \"into life.\" Animation, not representation, drove Van Eyck and his contemporaries. Turel's interpretation reverses the commonly held belief that these artists were inspired by the era's burgeoning empiricism, proposing instead that their \"living pictures\" helped create the conditions for empiricism. Illustrated with exquisite fifteenth-century paintings, this volume asserts these works' key role in shaping, rather than simply mirroring, the early modern world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Noa Turel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0300247575\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780300247572\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/29\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.10h x 8.80w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2021","brand":"Noa Turel","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46670483226879,"sku":"9780300247572","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6f5191fc-8b15-4edf-9c30-68f8b38b366e.jpg?v=1741316926","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/living-pictures-noa-turel-9780300247572","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}