Caravaggio's secrets
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Caravaggio's secrets
（October books）
MIT Press, c1998
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [101]-114) and index
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Many critics have explored the homoerotic message in the early portraits of the baroque painter Michelangelo Caravaggio (1573-1610). In this text the authors emphasize instead the impenetrability of these portraits. The tension between erotic invitation and self-concealing retreat leads them to conclude that the interest of these works is in their representation of an enigmatic address that solicit intimacy in order to block it with a secret. The book offers a psychoanalytic reading of the enigmatic address as initiating relations grounded in paranoid fascination. They study Caravaggio's attempts to move beyond such relations, his experiments with a space no longer circumscribed by the mutual and paranoid, if erotically stimulating, fascination with imaginary secrets. In this work, sensuality relevant to the most exciting attempts in our own time to rethink, perhaps even to reinvent, community.
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