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Saint Marks - Words, Images, and What Persists (Hardcover)
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Saint Marks - Words, Images, and What Persists (Hardcover)
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Saint Marks invokes and pluralizes the figure of Mark in order to
explore relations between painting and writing. Emphasizing that
the saint is not a singular biographical individual in the various
biblical and hagiographic texts that involve someone so named, the
book takes as its ultimate concern the kinds of material life that
outlive the human subject. From the incommensurate, anachronic
instances in which Saint Mark can be located-among them, as
Evangelist or as patron saint of Venice-the book traces Mark's
afterlives within art, sacred texts, and literature in conversation
with such art historians and philosophers as Aby Warburg, Giorgio
Agamben, Georges Didi-Huberman, T. J. Clark, Adrian Stokes, and
Jean-Luc Nancy. Goldberg begins in sixteenth-century Venice, with a
series of paintings by Gentile and Giovanni Bellini, Tintoretto,
and others, that have virtually nothing to do with biblical texts.
He turns then to the legacy of John Ruskin's Stones of Venice and
through it to questions about what painting does as painting. A
final chapter turns to ancient texts, considering the Gospel of St.
Mark together with its double, the so-called Secret Gospel that has
occasioned controversy for its homoerotic implications. The
posthumous persistence of a life is what the gospel named Mark
calls the Kingdom of God. Saints have posthumous lives; but so too
do paintings and texts. This major interdisciplinary study by one
of our most astute cultural critics extends what might have been a
purely theological subject to embrace questions central to cultural
practice from the ancient world to the present.
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