| Description |
xiv, 274 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Table of contents for Fra Angelico : dissemblance & figuration / Georges Didi-Huberman ; translated by Jane Marie Todd. -- Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog -- Information from electronic data provided by the publisher. May be incomplete or contain other coding. -- List of Illustrations -- Translator's Note -- Introduction -- Part One - The Colors of Mystery: Fra Angelico, Painter of Dissemblance -- The Question of Figure, the Question of Ground -- The Subtlety of Images -- The Four Senses of Scripture -- The Dialectic of Dissemblance -- Memoria , or the Implicit of Figures -- Praefiguratio , or the Destiny of Figures -- Praesentia , or the Virtual of Figures -- Part Two - Prophetic Places: The Annunciation Beyond Its Story -- Story and Mystery -- How to Figure the Unfigurable? -- The Figure Is Time -- The Figure Is the Place -- Inhabitatio : In the Light of the Word -- Inchoatio : In the Shadow of the Earth -- Incorporatio : In the Bosom of Colors -- Notes -- Credits -- Index -- Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Angelico, fra, ca, 1400-1455 Criticism and interpretation, Human figure in art, Symbolism in art |
| Summary |
In the work of Fra Angelico, an alternate strain of Renaissance painting emerges to challenge rather than reinforce verisimilitude. Didi-Huberman traces this disruptive impulse through theological writings and iconographic evidence and identifies a widespread tradition in Renaissance art that ranges from Giotto's break with Byzantine image-making well into the sixteenth century. He reveals how the techniques that served this ultimately religious impulse may have anticipated the more abstract characteristics of modern art, such as color fields, paint spatterings, and the absence of color. Part of Didi-Huberman's large-scale rethinking of art theory and history, and the first of his books to appear in English translation, Fra Angelico is a fitting introduction to one of the most original and celebrated writers in the world of art history and criticism |
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A Florentine painter who took Dominican vows, Fra Angelico (1400-1455) approached his work as a largely theological project. For him, the problems of representing the unrepresentable, of portraying the divine and the spiritual, mitigated the more secular breakthroughs in imitative technique. Didi-Huberman explores Fra Angelico's solutions to these problems - his use of color to signal approaching visibility, of marble to recall Christ's tomb, of paint drippings to simulate (or stimulate) holy anointing. He shows how the painter employed emptiness, visual transformation, and displacement to give form to the mystery of faith |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-266) and index |
| Subject |
Angelico, fra, approximately 1400-1455 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Human figure in art.
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Painting -- Italy -- 14th century.
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Symbolism in art.
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| Author |
Angelico, fra, approximately 1400-1455.
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| LC no. |
94032177 |
| ISBN |
0226148130 (cloth : acid-free paper) |
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