The Self-Aware Image
An Insight into Early Modern Meta-Painting
Victor Ieronim Stoichita(Author)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 28. October 1997
Book
Hardback
365 pages
978-0-521-43393-8 (ISBN)
Description
Victor Stoichita challenges the received ideas about the linear progression of Western painting, from the Renaissance, through Mannerism to the Baroque. Eschewing questions of style, he focuses instead on the painting as a framed, transportable, and marketable object that is a specifically modern artistic medium. Arguing that panel painting, from its origins in the Early Renaissance, was a 'self-aware image', Stoichita demonstrates that the artist and his art was often the theme of the painting. He also examines the mirror effect and other 'splitting' strategies such as the mise en abime and intertextual play. By analysing these modalities of self-reflection, Stoichita offers a new and unexpected view of a period and the art it produced once considered to have been definitively classified.
Reviews / Votes
'Only the rarest of books manages to think freshly about issues of art-making within a historical framework ... The Self-Aware Image is such a book ... this is a book to be sipped, not gulped. It richly deserves to be pondered and applied by specialists and generalists alike.' The Art BookMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
131 Halftones, unspecified
Dimensions
Height: 260 mm
Width: 185 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
1173 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-43393-8 (9780521433938)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Content
Introduction; Part I. The Surprised Eye: 1. Embrasures; 2. The birth of still-life as an intertextual process; 3. Margins; Part II. The Inquiring Eye: 4. Assemblage; 5. The turning point of painting; 6. The intertextual machine; Part III. The Methodical Eye: 7. Paintings, maps and mirrors; 8. Two images: the painter/the act of painting; 9. The reversed painting; Notes; Bibliography; Index.