Georges de La Tour and the Enigma of the Visible /
Judovitz, Dalia
Georges de La Tour and the Enigma of the Visible / Dalia Judovitz. - 1 online resource (192 p.) : 29 Black & White and Color Illustrations
Frontmatter -- contents -- illustrations -- acknowledgments -- Introduction -- chapter 1. The Enigma of the Visible -- chapter 2. Spiritual Passion and the Betrayal of Painting -- chapter 3. The Visible and the Legible -- chapter 4. Flea Catching and the Vanity of Painting -- chapter 5. Painting as Portal: "Birth" and "Death" of the Sacred Image -- Epilogue -- notes -- selected bibliography -- index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Not rediscovered until the twentieth century, the works of Georges de La Tour retain an aura of mystery. At first sight, his paintings suggest a veritable celebration of light and the visible world, but this is deceptive. The familiarity of visual experience blinds the beholder to a deeper understanding of the meanings associated with vision and the visible in the early modern period.By exploring the representations of light, vision, and the visible in La Tour's works, this interdisciplinary study examines the nature of painting and its artistic, religious, and philosophical implications. In the wake of iconoclastic outbreaks and consequent Catholic call for the revitalization of religious imagery, La Tour paints familiar objects of visible reality that also serve as emblems of an invisible, spiritual reality. Like the books in his paintings, asking to be read, La Tour's paintings ask not just to be seen as visual depictions but to be deciphered as instruments of insight. In figuring faith as spiritual passion and illumination, La Tour's paintings test the bounds of the pictorial image, attempting to depict what painting cannot ultimately show: words, hearing, time, movement, changes of heart.La Tour's emphasis on spiritual insight opens up broader artistic, philosophical, and conceptual reflections on the conditions of possibility of the pictorial medium. By scrutinizing what is seen and how, and by questioning the position of the beholder, his works revitalize critical discussion of the nature of painting and its engagements with the visible world.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780823277438 9780823277469
10.1515/9780823277469 doi
Visual perception in art.
Art & Visual Culture.
Philosophy & Theory.
Religion.
ART / History / Renaissance.
Baroque Aesthetics. Catholic Reform. Catholic Spirituality. Georges de La Tour. Light and Vision. Meta-Painting. Phenomenology of Vision. Protestant Iconoclasm. Religion and Visual Arts. Sight and Insight. Word and Image Interplay.
759.4
Georges de La Tour and the Enigma of the Visible / Dalia Judovitz. - 1 online resource (192 p.) : 29 Black & White and Color Illustrations
Frontmatter -- contents -- illustrations -- acknowledgments -- Introduction -- chapter 1. The Enigma of the Visible -- chapter 2. Spiritual Passion and the Betrayal of Painting -- chapter 3. The Visible and the Legible -- chapter 4. Flea Catching and the Vanity of Painting -- chapter 5. Painting as Portal: "Birth" and "Death" of the Sacred Image -- Epilogue -- notes -- selected bibliography -- index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Not rediscovered until the twentieth century, the works of Georges de La Tour retain an aura of mystery. At first sight, his paintings suggest a veritable celebration of light and the visible world, but this is deceptive. The familiarity of visual experience blinds the beholder to a deeper understanding of the meanings associated with vision and the visible in the early modern period.By exploring the representations of light, vision, and the visible in La Tour's works, this interdisciplinary study examines the nature of painting and its artistic, religious, and philosophical implications. In the wake of iconoclastic outbreaks and consequent Catholic call for the revitalization of religious imagery, La Tour paints familiar objects of visible reality that also serve as emblems of an invisible, spiritual reality. Like the books in his paintings, asking to be read, La Tour's paintings ask not just to be seen as visual depictions but to be deciphered as instruments of insight. In figuring faith as spiritual passion and illumination, La Tour's paintings test the bounds of the pictorial image, attempting to depict what painting cannot ultimately show: words, hearing, time, movement, changes of heart.La Tour's emphasis on spiritual insight opens up broader artistic, philosophical, and conceptual reflections on the conditions of possibility of the pictorial medium. By scrutinizing what is seen and how, and by questioning the position of the beholder, his works revitalize critical discussion of the nature of painting and its engagements with the visible world.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780823277438 9780823277469
10.1515/9780823277469 doi
Visual perception in art.
Art & Visual Culture.
Philosophy & Theory.
Religion.
ART / History / Renaissance.
Baroque Aesthetics. Catholic Reform. Catholic Spirituality. Georges de La Tour. Light and Vision. Meta-Painting. Phenomenology of Vision. Protestant Iconoclasm. Religion and Visual Arts. Sight and Insight. Word and Image Interplay.
759.4