Description: Further DetailsTitle: NymphsCondition: NewEAN: 9780857420947ISBN: 9780857420947Publisher: Seagull Books London LtdFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 11/26/2013Author: Giorgio AgambenLanguage: EnglishISBN-10: 0857420941Description: In 1900, Dutch art historians Andre Jolles and Aby Warburg constructed an experimental dialogue in which Jolles supposed he had fallen in love with the figure of a young woman in a painting: "A fantastic figure - shall I call her a servant girl, or rather a classical nymph? What is the meaning of it all - Who is the nymph? Where does she come from?" Warburg's response: "In essence she is an elemental spirit, a pagan goddess in exile," serves as the touchstone for this wide-ranging and theoretical exploration of female representation in iconography. In "Nymphs", the newest translation of Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben's work, the author notes that academic research has lingered on the "pagan goddess," while the concept of "elemental spirit," ignored by scholars, is vital to the history of iconography. Tracing the genealogy of this idea, Agamben goes on to examine subjects as diverse as the aesthetic theories of choreographer Domineco da Piacenza, Friedrich Theodor Vischer's essay on the "symbol," Walter Benjamin's concept of the dialectic image, and the bizarre discoveries of photographer Nathan Lerner in 1972.From these investigations emerges a startlingly original exploration of the ideas of time and the image. Agamben is the rare writer whose ideas and works have a broad appeal across many fields, and "Nymphs" will engage not only the author's devoted fans in philosophy, legal theory, sociology, and literary criticism, but his growing audience among art theorists and historians as well.Country/Region of Manufacture: GBGenre: Philosophy & SpiritualityItem Height: 21mmItem Length: 17mmItem Width: 1mmItem Weight: 198gTranslator: Amanda MinerviniContributor: Amanda Minervini (Translated by)Book Series: Italian ListRelease Year: 2013 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Nymphs
Title: Nymphs
EAN: 9780857420947
ISBN: 9780857420947
Release Date: 11/26/2013
Release Year: 2013
ISBN-10: 0857420941
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Translator: Amanda Minervini
Contributor: Amanda Minervini (Translated by)
Series: Italian List
Book Title: Nymphs
Number of Pages: 72 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Seagull Books
Topic: Criticism & Theory, Aesthetics
Item Height: 0.5 in
Publication Year: 2013
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Art, Philosophy
Item Weight: 7.1 Oz
Item Length: 7.7 in
Author: Giorgio Agamben
Book Series: The Italian List Ser.
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Hardcover
