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December 9, 2009
Anne Leonard and Martha Ward, eds. Looking and Listening in Nineteenth-Century France Exh. cat. Chicago: Smart Museum of Art and University of Chicago, 2008. 104 pp.; 8 color ills.; 67 b/w ills. Paper and CD $24.00 (9780935573442 )

Exhibition schedule: Smart Museum of Art, November 6, 2007–March 23, 2008

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How do artists depict the act of looking or listening, even when the object of attention is not visible in the image? What does the experience of beauty, both seen and heard, look like? And how does the image convey the aesthetic experience of the artist’s subject to the beholder? These questions were the subject of an interdisciplinary course held at the University of Chicago in the spring of 2007 that culminated in an exhibition...