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Subject as Aporia in Early Modern Art (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Subject as Aporia in Early Modern Art (Hardcover, New Ed)
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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.
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