Fra Angelico Dissemblance and Figuration

Name: Fra Angelico Dissemblance and Figuration
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ISBN: 9780226148137

ISBN-10: 0226148130

ISBN-13: 9780226148137

Edition: 1995

Authors: Georges Didi-Huberman, Jane Marie Todd

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The traditional story of Renaissance painting is one of inexorable progress toward the exact representation of the real and visible. Georges Didi-Huberman disrupts this story with a new look--and a new way of looking--at the fifteenth-century painter Fra Angelico. In doing so, he alters our understanding of both early Renaissance art and the processes of art history. 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…

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List price: $87.50
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 10/15/1995
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 290
Size: 8.50" wide x 11.00" long x 2.20" tall
Weight: 2.926
Language: English

Georges Didi-Huberman is professor at the ï¿½cole des hautes ï¿½tudes en sciences sociales in Paris. He is the author of more than thirty books on the history and theory of images, including Images in Spite of All, published by the University of Chicago Press.



List of Illustrations Translator's Note


Introduction



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



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