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Overview""The Delight of Art"" offers a highly original, erudite interpretation of ""Vasari's Lives"", one of the most influential texts on the arts. David Cast approaches Vasari's long, tripartite work as a complex rhetorical history rather than as an archival document mined for facts about the artists. He focuses on the delight Vasari mentions in his accounts of viewers' responses to works by artists from Giotto to Michelangelo. Cast finds in delight what might be called a threshold into the arena where the cultural and social orders met to produce a sphere of subjectivity as well as that of the compelling Renaissance invention, the artist. Full Product DetailsAuthor: David CastPublisher: Pennsylvania State University Press Imprint: Pennsylvania State University Press Dimensions: Width: 22.90cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 25.40cm Weight: 1.442kg ISBN: 9780271034423ISBN 10: 0271034424 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 11 August 2009 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments 1. Defining the Terms 2. Talking of Art 3. Thinking About History 4. Describing the Artist Appendix: The Evening Discussion Notes Selected BibliographyReviewsAlthough much of the recent scholarship on Vasari's great Lives of the artists has focused on the authorship and production of the book, Cast's work stands apart as a unique, sustained, and close reading of the whole text, a reading in which the author distills the essence of Vasari's purposes as a writer. In this respect, there is no work on Vasari quite like Cast's treatise, which is sophisticated, highly nuanced, and informed by an exceptional philosophical attention to Vasari's language. I think Cast's exploration of the concept of 'attention' in Vasari enriches our understanding of how art was approached and experienced in the Renaissance. - Paul Barolsky, University of Virginia Author InformationDavid Cast is Professor of the History of Art at Bryn Mawr College. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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