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Hardcover:
9781907317842 | Black Dog Pub Ltd, April 7, 2016, cover price $59.95
Product Description: Since at least the 1960s, Italian artists have resisted creating art that expresses a national identity, making âItalian artâ elusive to define. This quality of âsubtractionâ is examined here in the work of Giovanni Anselmo, Elisabetta Benassi, Gino De Dominicis, Francesco Matarrese, Marisa Merz, Luigi Ontani, Cesare Pietroiusti, Michelangelo Pistoletto and Emilio Prini...read more
Paperback:
9789461170163 | Distributed Art Pub Inc, November 30, 2012, cover price $32.00 | About this edition: Since at least the 1960s, Italian artists have resisted creating art that expresses a national identity, making âItalian artâ elusive to define.
Hardcover:
9780300166163 | Yale Univ Pr, November 18, 2010, cover price $65.00
Is the artist's monograph an endangered species or a timeless genre? This critical history traces the formal and conceptual trajectories of art history's favorite form, from Vasari onward, and reconsiders the validity of the life-and-work model for the twenty-first century.The narrative of the artist's life and work is one of the oldest models in the Western literature of the visual arts. In Art as Existence, Gabriele Guercio investigates the metamorphosis of the artist's monograph, tracing its formal and conceptual trajectories from Vasari's sixteenth-century Lives of the Painters, Sculptors, and Architects (which provided the model and source for the genre) through its apogee in the nineteenth century and decline in the twentieth. He looks at the legacy of the life-and-work model and considers its prospects in an intellectual universe of deconstructionism, psychoanalysis, feminism, and postcolonialism.Since Vasari, the monograph has been notable for its fluidity and variety; it can be scrupulous and exact, probing and revelatory, poetic and imaginative, or any combination of these. In the nineteenth century, the monograph combined art-historical, biographical, and critical methods, and even added elements of fiction. Guercio explores some significant books that illustrate key phases in the model's evolution, including works by Gustav Friedrich Waagen, A. C. Quatremère de Quincy, Johann David Passavant, Bernard Berenson, and others. The hidden project of the artist's monograph, Guercio claims, comes from a utopian impulse; by commuting biography into art and art into biography, the life-and-work model equates art and existence, construing otherwise distinct works of an artist as chapters of a life story. Guercio calls for a contemporary reconsideration of the life-and-work model, arguing that the ultimate legacy of the artist's monograph does not lie in its established modes of writing but in its greater project and in the intimate portrait that we gain of the nature of creativity.
Hardcover:
9780262072687 | Mit Pr, June 2, 2006, cover price $11.75 | About this edition: Is the artist's monograph an endangered species or a timeless genre?
Paperback:
9780262513203 | Reprint edition (Mit Pr, October 30, 2009), cover price $6.75
Hardcover:
9780300126860 | Yale Univ Pr, January 31, 2008, cover price $35.00
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