1st Edition
Art and Artifice in Visual Culture Eighteenth Century to the Present
Part 1 Artifice and Spectatorship
1. Fractured Perception: Drawings, Prints, and Verres Casses
J. Cabelle Ahn
2. Rococo Aesthetics and the Problem of Trompe l’Oeil
Michael Yonan
3. Degas’s "Histories" and the Foreshadowing Artifice of Self-Candaulism
Vasile-Ovidiu Prejmerean
Part 2 Haptic Illusions
4. Suggestive Surfaces: The Self-Referential Texture of Woodgrain in Japanese Woodblock Prints
Kit Brooks
5. Reconsidering the Origins of Yongzheng Guwantu: From the Aniconic Period to Vimalakīrtinirdeśa Sūtra
Chih-En Chen
6. Fooling Art History: John F. Peto and William Harnett
Yinshi Lerman-Tan
Part 3 Alternative Realities
7. First Nations’ Wampum Belts: A Colonial Vision of Artifice in Eighteenth-Century New France
Clémence Fort
8. "An Opportunity to Grapple with the Picture Plane…": The Stereo-Illusion’s History of Frustration
Eszter Polonyi
9. Self-Reference and Medium-Reference in Virtual Reality and Trompe l’Oeil
Sonia Coman
Biography
Sonia Coman, Ph.D. is a Contributor and Consultant at Smarthistory and Director of Digital Engagement at Washington National Cathedral.
Vasile-Ovidiu Prejmerean is a Ph.D. Candidate at Université de Fribourg, Switzerland.
Michael Yonan is a Professor of Art History and Alan Templeton Endowed Chair in the History of European Art, 1600–1830, at the University of California, Davis.
