The Self-Aware Image: An Insight Into Early Modern Meta-Painting (Studies in Baroque Art) (Harvey Miller Studies in Baroque Art) by Victor I. Stoichita

by Victor Ieronim Stoichiță

This text challenges the received ideas about the linear progression of Western painting, from the Renaissance, through Mannerism to the Baroque. Eschewing questions of style, it focuses instead on the painting as a framed, transportable and marketable object that is a specifically modern artistic medium. Arguing that panel painting, from its origins in the Early Renaissance, was a self-aware image, Stoichita demonstrates that the artists and his art were often the theme of the painting. The also examines the mirror effect and other splitting strategies such as the mise en abime and intertextual play. By analyzing these modalities of self-reflection, Stoichita offers a view of a period and the art it produced once considered to have been definitively classified.

Genres: Art History, History, Art

Hardcover

First published October 28, 1997

About the author

Victor I. Stoichiță is a Professor of the History of Art at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. He is the author of "A Short History of the Shadow" (Reaktion, 1997) and co-author of "Goya" (Reaktion, 1999)

Reviews

[Az · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excelente revisión de la historia del cuadro. Un enfoque distinto y único para repensar la historia del arte occidental desde una perspectiva sociodiscursiva, desde la cual leer los cambios históricos a través del arte pictórico y viceversa. La temática me recordó un poco a "La imagen y el ojo" de Gombrich. Excelente libro.