Warm Flesh, Cold Marble: Canova, Thorvaldsen, and Their Critics - Couverture rigide

Bindman, David

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0300197896 ISBN 13 : 9780300197891

Editeur : Yale University Press, 2014

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

David Bindman is Emeritus Durning-Lawrence Professor of the History of Art, University College London, and visiting professor, history of art, Harvard University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Yale University Press
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0300197896
• ISBN 13: 9780300197891
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 220
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