{"product_id":"studiolo-9781803093680","title":"Studiolo","description":"\u003cb\u003eA brief study of select Western art from Italy's foremost philosopher.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In Renaissance palaces, the studiolo was a small room to which the prince withdrew to meditate or read, surrounded by paintings he particularly loved. This book is a kind of studiolo for its author, Giorgio Agamben, as he turns his philosophical lens on the world of Western art. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eStudiolo \u003c\/i\u003eis a fascinating take on a selection of artworks created over millennia; some are easily identifiable, others rarer. Though they were produced over an arc of time stretching from 5000 BCE to the present, only now have they achieved their true legibility. Agamben contends that we must understand that the images bequeathed by the past are really addressed to us, here and now; otherwise, our historical awareness is broken. Notwithstanding the attention to detail and the critical precautions that characterize the author's method--they provoke us with a force, even a violence, that we cannot escape. When we understand why Dostoevsky feared losing his faith before Holbein's\u003ci\u003e Body of the Dead Christ\u003c\/i\u003e, when Chardin's\u003ci\u003e Still Life with Hare\u003c\/i\u003e is suddenly revealed to our gaze as a crucifixion or Twombly's sculpture shows that beauty must ultimately fall, the artwork is torn from its museological context and restored to its almost prehistoric emergence. These artworks are beautifully reproduced in color throughout Agamben's short but significant addition to his scholarly oeuvre in English translation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Seagull Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/07\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781803093680\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 130\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.75h x 5.50w x 0.70d","brand":"Giorgio Agamben","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43600233627829,"sku":"9781803093680","price":17.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_5ee204b9-3556-468b-83fd-7148a6596e62.jpg?v=1707206290","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/studiolo-9781803093680","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}