The delight of art : Giorgio Vasari and the traditions of humanist discourse
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The delight of art : Giorgio Vasari and the traditions of humanist discourse
Pennsylvania State University Press, c2009
- : cloth
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-226) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
Contents
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 Bibliography
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