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When Giorgione Died: Metaphor-biography-art (Hardcover)
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When Giorgione Died: Metaphor-biography-art (Hardcover)
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This brilliant two-volume publication joins an art historian's
memoir with a biography of the mysterious painter Giorgione. No
artist of the Renaissance is more elusive than Giorgione. Authentic
paintings are rare, perhaps nonexistent, and little is known about
his life, although speculation abounds in the scholarly literature
devoted to fleshing out an identity for him. As fictive as he is
real, as loved by art forgers as by art experts, this strange,
shadowy figure is the subject of Seeing Double, the first of the
two volumes. Thinking Twice, the second volume, presents
Giorgione's contemporary counterpart, an unemployed, melancholic
art historian who cannot connect with the magnificent art and
architecture surrounding her in Florence. Delivering a series of
imaginary slide lectures, she doubles back over her past, searching
for transformative experience in Europe and back home in the US.
Her search leads to humor-laced musings about the pitfalls of an
elite education in art history. To enlarge her perspective, she
turns to novels and poetry by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Henry
James, and William Gaddis to name just a few of the authors called
upon for guidance. The wide-range and verve of this double book
will surprise even seasoned aficionados of art history. Brimming
with insights, it shows there is nothing more difficult--nothing
more rewarding--than trying to be true to both art and life.
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