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Subject as Aporia in Early Modern Art

Buch | Softcover
274 Seiten
2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-92406-9 (ISBN)
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This volume focuses on early modern paintings, sculpture and other artworks in which subjects have been difficult to define, which constitute potentially or actually visual aporias. Using specific examples as case studies, contributors analyze borderline visual cases in which subjects are "smudged" either due to the convergence of discordant elemen
The studies in this volume focus on works of art that generate bafflement, and that make that difficulty of reading part of their rhetorical structure. These are works whose subjects are not easily identifiable or can be readily associated with more than one subject at the same time; works that take a subject into a new genre or format (pagan into Christian, for example, or vice versa), and thus destabilize the subject itself; works that concentrate on the marginal rather than the central episode; and works that introduce elements of the preparatory phase-the indeterminacy that are native to the sketch or drawing, for example-into the realm of finished works. Unable to settle on a single reading, the effort of interpretation doubles back on its own procedures. This aporia, according to Aristotle, serves as the initial impulse to philosophical inquiry. Although the works studied here are in many ways exceptional, the aporias they raise register larger structural problems belonging to the artistic culture as a whole. Between 1400 and 1700, we see the emergence of new formats, new genres, new subjects, and new techniques, as well as new venues for the display of art. It is an implicit thesis of this book that the systemic shifts occurring in the early modern period made the emergence of aporetic works of art, and of aporia as a problem for art, a structural inevitability.

Alexander Nagel is Professor of Fine Arts, New York University Institute of Fine Arts, USA. Lorenzo Pericolo is Associate Professor, Department of the History of Art, University of Warwick, UK.

Contents: Preface; Unresolved images: an introduction to aporia as an analytical category in the interpretation of early modern art, Alexander Nagel and Lorenzo Pericolo; Structural indeterminacy in early16th-century Italian painting, Alexander Nagel; Body, mind and soul: on the so-called Platonic Youth at the Bargello, Florence, Jeanette Kohl; Whittling down the Istoria, Patricia A. Emison; Between artistry and documentation: a passage to India and the problem of representing new global encounters, Ashley D. West; Naturalism and the Venetian 'poesia': grafting, metaphor, and embodiment in Giorgione, Titian, and the Campagnolas, Stephen J. Campbell; Bildraum as aporia, Christopher P. Heuer; Michelangelo, architecture and the stingray, Cammy Brothers; 'I will repair my work that was left ...': Velázquez and the unfinished story of Arachne, Aneta Georgievska-Shine; Nude in motion: Rembrandt's Danae and the indeterminacy of the subject, Lorenzo Pericolo; Bibliography; Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 14.10.2024
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 174 x 246 mm
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater
Geisteswissenschaften Archäologie
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte
ISBN-10 1-032-92406-3 / 1032924063
ISBN-13 978-1-032-92406-9 / 9781032924069
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