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Giorgio Agamben Studiolo (Paperback) Italian List

Description: Further DetailsTitle: StudioloCondition: NewISBN-10: 1803093684EAN: 9781803093680ISBN: 9781803093680Publisher: Seagull Books London LtdFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 04/23/2024Description: 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.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 197mmItem Length: 140mmItem Width: 10mmItem Weight: 172gAuthor: Giorgio AgambenTranslator: Alberto ToscanoContributor: Alberto Toscano (Translated by)Genre: Philosophy & SpiritualityTopic: Arts & PhotographyBook Series: Italian ListRelease Year: 2024 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: Studiolo

Title: Studiolo

ISBN-10: 1803093684

EAN: 9781803093680

ISBN: 9781803093680

Release Date: 04/23/2024

Release Year: 2024

Country/Region of Manufacture: GB

Translator: Alberto Toscano

Contributor: Alberto Toscano (Translated by)

Series: Italian List

Book Title: Studiolo

Number of Pages: 130 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: Seagull Books

Publication Year: 2024

Item Height: 0.4 in

Topic: Criticism & Theory, General, Aesthetics, European

Illustrator: Yes

Genre: Art, Philosophy

Item Weight: 6.1 Oz

Author: Giorgio Agamben

Item Length: 7.7 in

Book Series: The Italian List Ser.

Item Width: 5.5 in

Format: Trade Paperback

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