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Warm Flesh, Cold Marble - Canova, Thorvaldsen, and Their Critics (Hardcover)
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Warm Flesh, Cold Marble - Canova, Thorvaldsen, and Their Critics (Hardcover)
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This brilliant book focuses on the aesthetic concerns of the two
most important sculptors of the early 19th century, the great
Italian sculptor Antonio Canova (1757-1822) and his illustrious
Danish rival Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770-1844). Rather than comparing
their artistic output, the distinguished art historian David
Bindman addresses the possible impact of Kantian aesthetics on
their work. Both artists had elevated reputations, and their
sculptures attracted interest from philosophically minded critics.
Despite the sculptors' own apparent disdain for theory, Bindman
argues that they were in dialogue with and greatly influenced by
philosophical and critical debates, and made many decisions in
creating their sculptures specifically in response to those
debates. Warm Flesh, Cold Marble considers such intriguing topics
as the aesthetic autonomy of works of art, the gender of the
subject, the efficacy of marble as an imitative medium, the
question of color and texture in relation to ideas and practices of
antiquity, and the relationship between the whiteness of marble and
ideas of race.
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