Visualizing Boccaccio - Studies on Illustrations of the Decameron, From Giotto to Pasolini

Klappentext Originally published in 1997, Visualizing Boccaccio represents an intriguing approach to the interpretation of Boccaccio's classic book of erotic tales, The Decameron. Using literary, critical, psychoanalytic, and film theories, Jill Ricketts offers a feminist critique of these stories, exposing tensions generated by sexual difference that motivate privilege and investigating the possibilities of change in power relations associated with that privilege. In a comparison of selected tales from The Decameron with works by Cimabue and Giotto, fifteenth-century manuscript illumination, a series of paintings by Botticelli, and Pier Paolo Pasolini's cinematic interpretation of the tales, Ricketts also demonstrates how the juxtaposition of verbal and visual renditions permit new interpretation of each of these works. Zusammenfassung Visualizing Boccaccio represents an intriguing 1997 approach to the interpretation of Boccaccio's classic book of erotic tales! The Decameron. In a comparison of selected tales from The Decameron with painting and film! Ricketts demonstrates how the juxtaposition of verbal and visual renditions permits new interpretation of each of these works. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Beastly Gualtieri: another audience for the Tale of Griselda; 2. Illuminating metaphors: the tale of Tancredi, Ghismunda and Guiscardo; 3. Boccaccio, Botticelli and the tale of Nastagio: the subversion of visuality by painting; 4. Imaginative artistry: Giotto, Boccaccio and Pasolini; 5. Living pictures: high art pastiche and the cruising gaze in Pasolini's Decameron.

Product details

• Authors: Jill M. Ricketts, Ricketts Jill M.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.03.2011
• EAN: 9780521174541
• ISBN: 978-0-521-17454-1
• No. of pages: 226
• Series: Cambridge Studies in New Art H; Cambridge Studies in New Art History and Criticism; Cambridge Studies in New Art History and Criticism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; ART / General, History of Art, History of art & design styles: c 1400 to c 1600, 15th century, c 1400 to c 1499, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599