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- Condition
- Book Title
- The Delight of Art: Giorgio Vasari and the Traditions of Humanist
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Genre
- Art & Culture
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- ISBN
- 9780271034423
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Pennsylvania STATE University Press
ISBN-10
0271034424
ISBN-13
9780271034423
eBay Product ID (ePID)
72399289
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Publication Name
Delight of Art : Giorgio Vasari and the Traditions of Humanist Discourse
Language
English
Subject
Criticism & Theory, Artists, Architects, Photographers, History / General, History / Renaissance
Publication Year
2009
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Art, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
51 Oz
Item Length
10.3 in
Item Width
9.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2008-043744
Dewey Edition
22
TitleLeading
The
Reviews
"[The] format accommodates rapid-fire insights that capture the breathless excitement of an animated graduate seminar. . . . All students of the Aretine polymath will remain indebted to Cast for identifying and adumbrating Vasari's latent, even suppressed, theory of delight in art." --Jonathan Unglaub, CAA Reviews, &"For those interested in the aesthetic response to art of the Renaissance, The Delight of Art: Giorgio Vasari and the Traditions of Humanist Discourse may be the perfect text.&" &-Annemarie Sawkins, Sixteenth Century Journal, "Although 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, "[The] format accommodates rapid-fire insights that capture the breathless excitement of an animated graduate seminar. . . . All students of the Aretine polymath will remain indebted to Cast for identifying and adumbrating Vasari's latent, even suppressed, theory of delight in art." --Jonathan Unglaub CAA Reviews, "Although 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, &"Although 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, "For those interested in the aesthetic response to art of the Renaissance, The Delight of Art: Giorgio Vasari and the Traditions of Humanist Discourse may be the perfect text." -Annemarie Sawkins, Sixteenth Century Journal, &"[The] format accommodates rapid-fire insights that capture the breathless excitement of an animated graduate seminar. . . . All students of the Aretine polymath will remain indebted to Cast for identifying and adumbrating Vasari&'s latent, even suppressed, theory of delight in art.&" &-Jonathan Unglaub, CAA Reviews, "For those interested in the aesthetic response to art of the Renaissance, The Delight of Art: Giorgio Vasari and the Traditions of Humanist Discourse may be the perfect text." --Annemarie Sawkins, Sixteenth Century Journal, "For those interested in the aesthetic response to art of the Renaissance, The Delight of Art: Giorgio Vasari and the Traditions of Humanist Discourse may be the perfect text." --Annemarie Sawkins Sixteenth Century Journal, "[The] format accommodates rapid-fire insights that capture the breathless excitement of an animated graduate seminar. . . . All students of the Aretine polymath will remain indebted to Cast for identifying and adumbrating Vasari's latent, even suppressed, theory of delight in art." -Jonathan Unglaub, CAA Reviews, "Although 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
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
709.02/4
Table Of Content
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
Synopsis
A study based on the text, the Lives of the Artists, by Giorgio Vasari. Discusses how the visual arts in the Renaisssance were an occasion for delight or pleasure. Argues that such an attention was encouraged by certain social and intellectual practices., 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.
LC Classification Number
N72.S6C275 2009
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