Late Paintings of Velazquez - Theorizing Painterly Performance

Zusatztext Prize: Awarded an Honorable Mention in the Eleanor Tufts book prize competition! 2011! sponsored by the American Society for Hispanic Art Historical Studies (ASHAHS) 'The Late Paintings of Velázquez is a comprehensive effort to treat some of the most important paintings by Velázquez as part of a self-conscious strategy to locate his past and present work against a backdrop of seventeenth-century art theory polemics! on the one hand! and in relation to the narrative of the history of early modern painting as it had been set up in the canonical Lives of Giorgio Vasari! on the other.' Sixteenth Century Journal '... an insightful contribution to Velázquez Studies.' Bulletin of Spanish Studies Informationen zum Autor Giles Knox is an Assistant Professor in the Department of the History of Art! Indiana University! USA. Zusammenfassung Argues that Diego Velazquez painted two of his most famous works, "The Spinners" and "Las Meninas", as theoretically informed manifestos of painterly brushwork. This book also argues that the two paintings form a learned retort to the prevailing critical disdain for the painterly. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Introduction; Critical responses to painterly painting; An allegory of painterly painting; The Spinners and the triumph of Venice; The Spinners: a witty critique; Las Meninas: social and structural perspectives; Las Meninas: painterly polemics; Select bibliography: Index.

Product details

• Authors: Giles Knox, Knox Giles
• Publisher: ASHGATE PUB CO
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.05.2009
• EAN: 9780754666776
• ISBN: 978-0-7546-6677-6
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Visual Culture in Early Modernity; Visual Culture in Early Modernity
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; ART / History / General, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, History of Art, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Painting & paintings, C 1600 To C 1700, History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800, Paintings and painting