
Temporalizing Space
The Triumphant Strategies of Piero della Francesca
Carol R. Cook(Author)
Peter Lang Verlag
Will be published approx. on 1. December 1992
Book
Hardback
XII, 207 pages
978-0-8204-1865-0 (ISBN)
Description
The Australian bushman's space and time are not those of a modern Westerner, nor are the space and time of Piero della Francesca. Both space and time are subject to a host of conditions governing them in a particular culture. There is a sense in which an earlier culture's intuitions of space and time are irrecoverable. Yet, like the ethnographic investigator, we try to enter into that space and that time. And then, beyond the investigator, we try to attain and appropriate the perception of the «native». In attending to Piero della Francesca we putatively assimilate to the version of space and even of time that he presents in each work, especially in his «True Cross» cycle. This book contains one long, detailed study of significations in Piero della Francesca's Arezzo cycle on the «True Cross» and other major paintings. A companion essay on the many uses of space by artists and dramatists includes material on Bernini and Veronese, as well as on Hamlet, the Oresteia, and film.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
8 plates, 16 fig.
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Weight
480 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8204-1865-0 (9780820418650)
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Person
The Author: Albert Cook is a poet, critic, and translator at Brown University. Most recently he has published Soundings: On Shakespeare, Modern Poetry, Plato, and Other Subjects (1991), which includes Midway, a long poem. His other books on art include Changing the Signs: the Fifteenth Century Breakthrough (1985); Figural Choice in Poetry and Art (1985); and Dimensions of the Sign in Art (1989).
Content
Contents: A study in depth of significations in Piero della Francesca's Arezzo cycle on the True Cross and other major paintings. A companion essay on the many uses of space by artists and dramatists.