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Studiolo

TaschenbuchKartoniert, Paperback
130 Seiten
Englisch
Seagull Books London Ltderschienen am23.04.2024
A brief study of select Western art from Italy´s foremost philosopher. In Renaissance palaces, the studiolo was a small room to which the prince withdrew to meditate or read, surrounded by paintings he particularly loved. This book is a kind of studiolo for its author, Giorgio Agamben, as he turns his philosophical lens on the world of Western art.  Studiolo is a fascinating take on a selection of artworks created over millennia; some are easily identifiable, others rarer. Though they were produced over an arc of time stretching from 5000 BCE to the present, only now have they achieved their true legibility. Agamben contends that we must understand that the images bequeathed by the past are really addressed to us, here and now; otherwise, our historical awareness is broken. Notwithstanding the attention to detail and the critical precautions that characterize the author´s method-they provoke us with a force, even a violence, that we cannot escape. When we understand why Dostoevsky feared losing his faith before Holbein´s Body of the Dead Christ, when Chardin´s Still Life with Hare is suddenly revealed to our gaze as a crucifixion or Twombly´s sculpture shows that beauty must ultimately fall, the artwork is torn from its museological context and restored to its almost prehistoric emergence. These artworks are beautifully reproduced in color throughout Agamben´s short but significant addition to his scholarly oeuvre in English translation.mehr
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KlappentextA brief study of select Western art from Italy´s foremost philosopher. In Renaissance palaces, the studiolo was a small room to which the prince withdrew to meditate or read, surrounded by paintings he particularly loved. This book is a kind of studiolo for its author, Giorgio Agamben, as he turns his philosophical lens on the world of Western art.  Studiolo is a fascinating take on a selection of artworks created over millennia; some are easily identifiable, others rarer. Though they were produced over an arc of time stretching from 5000 BCE to the present, only now have they achieved their true legibility. Agamben contends that we must understand that the images bequeathed by the past are really addressed to us, here and now; otherwise, our historical awareness is broken. Notwithstanding the attention to detail and the critical precautions that characterize the author´s method-they provoke us with a force, even a violence, that we cannot escape. When we understand why Dostoevsky feared losing his faith before Holbein´s Body of the Dead Christ, when Chardin´s Still Life with Hare is suddenly revealed to our gaze as a crucifixion or Twombly´s sculpture shows that beauty must ultimately fall, the artwork is torn from its museological context and restored to its almost prehistoric emergence. These artworks are beautifully reproduced in color throughout Agamben´s short but significant addition to his scholarly oeuvre in English translation.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-1-80309-368-0
ProduktartTaschenbuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
Erscheinungsjahr2024
Erscheinungsdatum23.04.2024
Seiten130 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 140 mm, Höhe 200 mm, Dicke 20 mm
Gewicht162 g
Artikel-Nr.60967770

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
A Note on the Text 1.The Old Man and the Nude2.The Folds of the World3.The Dormition of Art4.The White Place of Painting5.What Is Inspiration?6.The Blanket and the Sea7.The Well and the Void8.The Icon and Death9.A Winter in God10.No More Secrets11.The Absent Cross12.The Art of Thresholds13.Beauty That Falls14.The Gaze of Ancient Man15.The Body of Light16.The Everyday and Mystery17.The Clogs in God18.Prehistory Here and Now19.Making the Visible Visible20.Anatomy of the Angel21.Vision and HorrorWorks Citedmehr

Autor

Giorgio Agamben is one of Italy's foremost contemporary thinkers. He recently brought to a close his widely influential archaeology of Western politics, the nine-volume Homo Sacer series. Alberto Toscano teaches and researches at Goldsmiths, University of London, and Simon Fraser University, Vancouver.