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Studiolo

English

By (author): Giorgio Agamben

Translated by: Alberto Toscano

A brief study of select Western art from Italys 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 detail and the critical precautions that characterize the authors methodthey provoke us with a force, even a violence, that we cannot escape. When we understand why Dostoevsky feared losing his faith before Holbeins Body of the Dead Christ, when Chardins Still Life with Hare is suddenly revealed to our gaze as a crucifixion or Twomblys 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 Agambens short but significant addition to his scholarly oeuvre in English translation. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 172g
  • Dimensions: 140 x 197mm
  • Publication Date: 23 Apr 2024
  • Publisher: Seagull Books London Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781803093680

About Giorgio Agamben

Giorgio Agamben is one of Italys foremost contemporary thinkers. He recently brought to a close his widely influential archaeology of Western politics the nine-volume Homo Sacer series. Alberto Toscano teaches and researches at Goldsmiths University of London and Simon Fraser University Vancouver.

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