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Saint Marks : Words, Images, and What Persists / / Jonathan Goldberg



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Autore: Goldberg Jonathan Visualizza persona
Titolo: Saint Marks : Words, Images, and What Persists / / Jonathan Goldberg Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, NY : , : Fordham University Press, , [2018]
©2019
Edizione: First edition.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (213 pages)
Disciplina: 701/.15
Soggetto topico: Art - Psychology
Soggetto non controllato: Homoeroticism
Materiality
Painting and writing
Saint Mark
Venetian Renaissance painting
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- contents -- preface -- figures and plates -- chapter 1. Atmospherics (Bellini) -- chapter 2. Gravity (Tintoretto) -- chapter 3. Stones (of Venice) -- chapter 4. Secrets -- acknowledgments -- notes -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: Saint Marks invokes and pluralizes the figure of Mark in order to explore relations between painting and writing. Emphasizing that the saint is not a singular biographical individual in the various biblical and hagiographic texts that involve someone so named, the book takes as its ultimate concern the kinds of material life that outlive the human subject.From the incommensurate, anachronic instances in which Saint Mark can be located—among them, as Evangelist or as patron saint of Venice—the book traces Mark’s afterlives within art, sacred texts, and literature in conversation with such art historians and philosophers as Aby Warburg, Giorgio Agamben, Georges Didi-Huberman, T. J. Clark, Adrian Stokes, and Jean-Luc Nancy. Goldberg begins in sixteenth-century Venice, with a series of paintings by Gentile and Giovanni Bellini, Tintoretto, and others, that have virtually nothing to do with biblical texts. He turns then to the legacy of John Ruskin’s Stones of Venice and through it to questions about what painting does as painting. A final chapter turns to ancient texts, considering the Gospel of St. Mark together with its double, the so-called Secret Gospel that has occasioned controversy for its homoerotic implications.The posthumous persistence of a life is what the gospel named Mark calls the Kingdom of God. Saints have posthumous lives; but so too do paintings and texts. This major interdisciplinary study by one of our most astute cultural critics extends what might have been a purely theological subject to embrace questions central to cultural practice from the ancient world to the present.
Titolo autorizzato: Saint Marks  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8232-8210-4
0-8232-8209-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910793006003321
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