The Controversy of Renaissance Art by Alexander Nagel (English) Hardcover Book

Description: The Controversy of Renaissance Art by Alexander Nagel A study of the controversies over religious images that pervaded Italian life both before and parallel to the Reformation north of the Alps. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Many studies have shown that images—their presence in the daily lives of the faithful, the means used to control them, and their adaptation to secular uses—were at the heart of the Reformation crisis in northern Europe. But the question as it affects the art of Italy has been raised only in highly specialized studies.In this book, Alexander Nagel provides the first truly synthetic study of the controversies over religious images that pervaded Italian life both before and parallel to the Reformation north of the Alps. Tracing the intertwined relationship of artistic innovation and archaism, as well as the new pressures placed on the artistic media in the midst of key developments in religious iconography, The Controversy of Renaissance Art offers an important and original history of humanist thought and artistic experimentation from one of our most acclaimed historians of art. Author Biography Alexander Nagel is professor of Renaissance art history at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University. He is the author of Michelangelo and the Reform of Art and coauthor, with Christopher Wood, of Anachronic Renaissance. Table of Contents List of Figures Preface Introduction A nontriumphant Renaissance * The Reformation that never happened in Italy * Pre- and post-Trent * Range of the study Part 1 Excavations in Christian Art 1 Effects of Estrangement "These are your idols, which you have put in my temple" * Theater and its double * Art historians and their precursors * The time of the other * Attending effigies * Interior cult and exterior cult * Whores and idols 2 Erasure, Defacement, Unmasking Reform as art restoration * Defamiliarized icons * The "puppet painter" gets a hearing * Erasmus unmasks the saints 3 Excavations of the Image A picture of indeterminate subject and uncertain finish * Threshold painting * Figures in a loose and unready state * Images from the underside * Drawing brought to the surface * Reconfigurations * Christian art that is no longer * Related experiments 4 Re-mediations of the Altarpiece The painters new profession * Raphael extracts the icon * Vision as re-mediation * Structures of archaism * Christocentrism * Transmutation chamber Part 2 Christ as Idol 5 Animated Statues Sculpture and the pictorial imaginary * The idol in Saint Augustines study * Statue + column = idolatry * In the round and from behind * Showdown in the arena of painting * Ficinos ambivalent defense of image magic * The crucifix as anti-statue 6 The Antique Statue of Christ "Christ, who deserved a statue, received instead a cross" * A statue of Christ from the Holy Land * Replication and retroactivation * An antique Christ at the Minerva * Rhetorical interferences * Form as symbol 7 Avatars of the Golden Calf in the Works of Andrea Riccio Gregorio Cortese commissions art at Santa Giustina, 1513 * Moses and polytheism * A Moses-idol * Repetition compulsion * Christ as idol * The work of conversion * Uncompromising logic * Fire takes the form of bronze * Recursions * Religion on earth Part 3 Soft Iconoclasm 8 Architecture as Image Forms of iconophobia in Italy * A semiotic contest * Replacement and reversion * Early interventions at Florence and Siena * Figuration and fulfillment, and vice versa * "All the other things are shadows" 9 The Tabernacle in the Matrix "So long as it is not about saints" * Raimondis I Modi in Gibertis Rome * Pornography as iconoclasm * Nonprocreative art * A new model of church art at Verona cathedral * The Virgin becomes architecture * Borromeo interprets Giberti 10 The Most Abstract Altarpiece of the Italian Renaissance The Vicenza altar and reform circles in northern Italy * Adventures in aniconism * The virtues of stones * The world is an animal * Displacement Notes Selected Sources Review "Alexander Nagels account of the underappreciated radicality of Renaissance aesthetic experiments is packed with solid research, original interpretive insights, and flashes of poetry. This is a substantial, well-written, and much-needed book that will make a major impact on the field." - Rebecca Zorach, University of Chicago" Prizes Commended for PROSE (Art History/Criticism) 2011 Details ISBN0226567729 Author Alexander Nagel Language English ISBN-10 0226567729 ISBN-13 9780226567723 Media Book Format Hardcover Short Title CONTROVERSY OF RENAISSANCE ART Year 2011 Imprint University of Chicago Press Place of Publication Chicago, IL Country of Publication United States Illustrations 60 colour plates, 100 halftones Pages 376 Birth 1945 UK Release Date 2011-09-01 Publication Date 2011-09-01 AU Release Date 2011-09-01 NZ Release Date 2011-09-01 US Release Date 2011-09-01 Publisher The University of Chicago Press DEWEY 709.4509031 Audience Undergraduate We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! 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