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Studiolo (Hardcover)
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Studiolo (Hardcover)
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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 details 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.
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