COUSINIE Frédéric.
Tensivity of images: Emergence, Revelation, Ecstasy, Apotheosis in 17th century France.
Mare & Martin
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| N° d'inventaire | 29763 |
| Format | 16 x 24 |
| Détails | 382 p., illustrated, paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2023 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782362220722 |
In what forms did the body of Christ and the Christian body manifest themselves in visual representations? Four determining modalities have been identified in the works of Nicolas Poussin, Simon Vouet and their contemporaries of the 17th century in France: the epiphanic emergence of the divine in this world, the Revelation of a God offering himself to the test of recognition during his earthly life, the visionary Ecstasy where the soul tends towards union and knowledge of God, the Apotheosis and the movement of ascension of the soul returning towards its divine principle.
The formal, rhetorical and kinesic analysis, attentive to body language, cannot be dissociated from its place in the spiritual and theological universe of the century studied. This double reading allows us to understand bodily postures as so many expressions, repetitions and extensions of a movement of divine origin: a loving dynamic, initiated from the act of Creation, then accomplished by Grace and arousing the own motions of the Christian subject.
Beyond this, we will note that the multiple tensions which affect faces, bodies but also time and pictorial space are part of a more general form of tension, characteristic of the art of this century: a tenseness of images which allows us to rethink the analysis of representations of the modern era.
The formal, rhetorical and kinesic analysis, attentive to body language, cannot be dissociated from its place in the spiritual and theological universe of the century studied. This double reading allows us to understand bodily postures as so many expressions, repetitions and extensions of a movement of divine origin: a loving dynamic, initiated from the act of Creation, then accomplished by Grace and arousing the own motions of the Christian subject.
Beyond this, we will note that the multiple tensions which affect faces, bodies but also time and pictorial space are part of a more general form of tension, characteristic of the art of this century: a tenseness of images which allows us to rethink the analysis of representations of the modern era.
The formal, rhetorical and kinesic analysis, attentive to body language, cannot be dissociated from its place in the spiritual and theological universe of the century studied. This double reading allows us to understand bodily postures as so many expressions, repetitions and extensions of a movement of divine origin: a loving dynamic, initiated from the act of Creation, then accomplished by Grace and arousing the own motions of the Christian subject.
Beyond this, we will note that the multiple tensions which affect faces, bodies but also time and pictorial space are part of a more general form of tension, characteristic of the art of this century: a tenseness of images which allows us to rethink the analysis of representations of the modern era.