THE VIEWER tells the peculiar story of a boy whose obsession with curious artefacts leads him to discover an strange box at a dump site. It proves to be an anci

A study of the largely hidden world of primary media market research and the different methods used to understand how the viewer is pictured in the industry. Th

In recent decades, art historians and critics have occasionally emphasized a dynamic, embodied mode of looking, accenting the role of the viewer and the complex

The works covered in college art history classes frequently depict violence against women. Traditional survey textbooks highlight the impressive formal qualitie

In The Viewer as Poet, Norman Land provides the first comprehensive survey of ekphrasis in literature and art criticism from antiquity through the Renaissance.