Francis Alÿs : Fabiola : an investigation
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
Francis Alÿs : Fabiola : an investigation
Dia Art Foundation , Yale University Press [distributor], 2008
- : Yale University Press
- Other Title
-
Fabiola : an investigation
Available at / 5 libraries
-
No Libraries matched.
- Remove all filters.
Note
Exhibition catalogue
Published on the occasion of an exhibition "Francis Alÿs: Fabiola," organized by Dia Art Foundation, New York
Editors: Karen Kelly and Lynne Cooke , with Bettina Funcke
Includes bibliographical references
Contents of Works
- Finding Fabiola / David Morgan
- Painting Fabiola : the hagiographer as literary artist / Susan Laningham
- Beyond Fabiola : Henner in and out of his nineteenth-century context / Stephen Bann
- Consumption as production / Martha Buskirk
- Francis Alys : instigator/investigator / Lynne Cooke
- Letter 77, to Oceanus on the death of Fabiola / Saint Jerome
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Mexico City-based artist Francis Alys (b. 1959) has assembled a group of paintings depicting Saint Fabiola, a 4th-century saint who gave up all earthly possessions and devoted herself to the practice of Christian asceticism. All of the pictures in the collection are based on an original work, now lost, by the nineteenth-century French artist Jean-Jacques Henner. This collection of Fabiola portraits, numbering in the hundreds and painted by amateurs and professionals alike, is the focus of this intriguing book. Not only does it explore the artist's exploration of collecting practices, but the publication also offers an unusual window into aesthetic, sociological, and anthropological values of the past century.In addition to cataloguing each of the Fabiola works, the book includes Saint Jerome's eulogy for Fabiola (the primary source for Fabiola's biography), followed by an interpretive text on evolving hagiographies and saint's vitae, an analysis of the role of iconographic imagery in the practice of Catholicism, and art historical essays that focus on Alys' practice.
by "Nielsen BookData"
