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Leppert, Richard David was born on August 28, 1943 in Fargo, North Dakota, United States. Son of Frederick W. and Eunice I. (Conlon) Leppert.
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In Art and the Committed Eye Richard Leppert examines Western European and American art from the fifteenth to the twentieth century. He studies the complex relation between the look” of images and the variety of social and cultural uses to which they are put and demonstrates that the meaning of any image is significantly determined by its function, which changes over time. In particular, he emphasizes the ways in which visual culture is called on to mediate social differences defined by gender, class, and race.In Part 1, Leppert addresses the nature and task of representation, discussing how meaning accrues to images and what role vision and visuality play in the history of modernity. Here he explains imagery’s power to attract our gaze by triggering desire and focuses on the long history of the use of representation to enact a deception, whether in painting or advertising.Part 2 explores art’s relation to the material world, to the ways in which images mark our various physical and psychic ties to objects. The author analyzes still life paintings whose subject matter is both extraordinarily diverse and deeply paradoxicalfrom flower bouquets to grotesque formal arrangements of human body parts. Leppert demonstrates that even in innocent” still lifes, formal design and technical execution are imbued with cultural conflict and social power.Part 3 is devoted to the representation of the human bodyas subject to obsessive gazing and as an object of display, spectacle, and transgression. The variety of body representation is enormous: pleased or tortured, gorgeous or monstrous, modest or lascivious, powerful or weak, in the bloom of life or under the anatomist’s knife, clothed or naked. But it is the sexual body, Leppert shows, that has provided the West with its richest, most complex, contradictory, conflicted, and paradoxical accounts of human identity in relation to social ideals.
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Richard Leppert boldly examines the social meanings of music as these have been shaped not only by hearing but also by seeing music in performance. His purview is the northern European bourgeoisie, principally in England and the Low Countries, from 1600 to 1900. And his particular interest is the relation of music to the human body. He argues that musical practices, invariably linked to the body, are inseparable from the prevailing discourses of power, knowledge, identity, desire, and sexuality. With the support of 100 illustrations, Leppert addresses music and the production of racism, the hoarding of musical sound in a culture of scarcity, musical consumption and the policing of gender, the domestic piano and misogyny, music and male anxiety, and the social silencing of music. His unexpected yoking of musicology and art history, in particular his original insights into the relationships between music, visual representation, and the history of the body, make exciting reading for scholars, students, and all those interested in society and the arts.
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Leppert, Richard David was born on August 28, 1943 in Fargo, North Dakota, United States. Son of Frederick W. and Eunice I. (Conlon) Leppert.
Bachelor, Moorhead State University, 1966. Bachelor of Science, Bachelor, Moorhead State University, 1966. M.M., Indiana University, 1969.
Doctor of Philosophy, Indiana University, 1973.
Assistant professor humanities, University of Minnesota-Minneapolis, 1973-1978; associate professor, University of Minnesota-Minneapolis, 1978-1982; professor, University of Minnesota-Minneapolis, since 1982; chairman humanities program, University of Minnesota-Minneapolis, 1980-1986; department chairman cultural studies & comparative literature, University of Minnesota-Minneapolis, since 1993.
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