Description: Further DetailsTitle: Georges de La Tour and the Enigma of the VisibleCondition: NewISBN-10: 0823277445EAN: 9780823277445ISBN: 9780823277445Publisher: Fordham University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 11/07/2017Description: Not rediscovered until the twentieth century, the works of Georges de La Tour retain an aura of mystery. At first sight, his paintings suggest a veritable celebration of light and the visible world, but this is deceptive. The familiarity of visual experience blinds the beholder to a deeper understanding of the meanings associated with vision and the visible in the early modern period.By exploring the representations of light, vision, and the visible in La Tour’s works, this interdisciplinary study examines the nature of painting and its artistic, religious, and philosophical implications. In the wake of iconoclastic outbreaks and consequent Catholic call for the revitalization of religious imagery, La Tour paints familiar objects of visible reality that also serve as emblems of an invisible, spiritual reality. Like the books in his paintings, asking to be read, La Tour’s paintings ask not just to be seen as visual depictions but to be deciphered as instruments of insight. In figuring faith as spiritual passion and illumination, La Tour’s paintings test the bounds of the pictorial image, attempting to depict what painting cannot ultimately show: words, hearing, time, movement, changes of heart.La Tour’s emphasis on spiritual insight opens up broader artistic, philosophical, and conceptual reflections on the conditions of possibility of the pictorial medium. By scrutinizing what is seen and how, and by questioning the position of the beholder, his works revitalize critical discussion of the nature of painting and its engagements with the visible world.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmAuthor: Dalia JudovitzGenre: Arts & PhotographyTopic: Philosophy & SpiritualityRelease Year: 2017 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Georges de La Tour and the Enigma of the Visible
Title: Georges de La Tour and the Enigma of the Visible
ISBN-10: 0823277445
EAN: 9780823277445
ISBN: 9780823277445
Release Date: 11/07/2017
Release Year: 2017
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Arts & Photography
Topic: Philosophy & Spirituality
Number of Pages: 192 Pages
Publication Name: Georges De La Tour and the Enigma of the Visible
Language: English
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Publication Year: 2017
Subject: Aesthetics, Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, European, History / Baroque & Rococo, Christianity / Literature & the Arts, History / Renaissance
Item Height: 0.6 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 11.3 Oz
Author: Dalia Judovitz
Item Length: 9 in
Subject Area: Art, Religion, Philosophy, Psychology
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
