Subject as Aporia in Early Modern Art

Alexander Nagel, Lorenzo Pericolo (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

274 Seiten

2010
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-7546-6493-2 (ISBN)

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In early modern societies throughout Europe, artistic production is bound by numerous rules and conventions, which inform technical procedures, determine formats and configurations of works of art, and regulate their contents. This title focuses on the cases, in which subjects potentially or actually constitute visual aporias.

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 ...': VelÃ¡zquez 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	16.6.2010
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	174 x 246 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-7546-6493-7 / 0754664937
ISBN-13	978-0-7546-6493-2 / 9780754664932
Zustand	Neuware