The detail.
Flammarion, Champs Arts collection| N° d'inventaire | 31448 |
| Format | 10.9 x 17.8 |
| Détails | 594 p., paperback |
| Publication | Paris, 2024 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782080451545 |
For a close history of painting
Saint Luke Painting the Virgin , by Martin Van Heemskerck, circa 1532. With this emblematic work, Daniel Arasse opens one of his fundamental texts. Through this mise en abyme, he offers us a program that goes well beyond a simple "history of detail." Here, he brilliantly delivers an in-depth rereading of the history of Western painting, through the prism of detail. Whether unexpectedly or gradually discovered, identified, scrutinized, isolated, or even cut out of its whole, detail offers a completely different way of seeing and understanding painting.
In this work, it is the traditional categories of art history, established "from afar", which are called into question. Without erudition ever taking precedence over pleasure and "festivals of the eye"...
For a close history of painting
Saint Luke Painting the Virgin , by Martin Van Heemskerck, circa 1532. With this emblematic work, Daniel Arasse opens one of his fundamental texts. Through this mise en abyme, he offers us a program that goes well beyond a simple "history of detail." Here, he brilliantly delivers an in-depth rereading of the history of Western painting, through the prism of detail. Whether unexpectedly or gradually discovered, identified, scrutinized, isolated, or even cut out of its whole, detail offers a completely different way of seeing and understanding painting.
In this work, it is the traditional categories of art history, established "from afar", which are called into question. Without erudition ever taking precedence over pleasure and "festivals of the eye"...