Seeing Through Closed Eyelids : Giuseppe Penone and the Nature of Sculpture /
Mangini, Elizabeth
Seeing Through Closed Eyelids : Giuseppe Penone and the Nature of Sculpture / Elizabeth Mangini. - 1 online resource (238 p.) : 41 colour illustrations, 46 b&w illustrations - Toronto Italian Studies .
Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: His Being in the Twenty-Second Year of Life at a Fantastic Hour -- 1 Presentness and Trace -- 2 An Artist Turned Inside Out -- 3 Radical Reciprocity: Passive Sculptor / Active Material -- 4 Tempus Arborus (Tree Time) -- Conclusion An Ontology of Sculpture – Form, Process, and Palimpsest -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Can a work of art help us know our world differently? In this first scholarly study of Giuseppe Penone, art historian Elizabeth Mangini argues that the Italian artist’s engagement of the body’s multiple senses constitutes a new theory of sculpture as a means to connect with and know the phenomenal world. Through close readings of signal works across Penone’s five-decade career – from his emergence in the context of 1960s Arte povera to his position as a pre-eminent contemporary artist today – Mangini demonstrates how Penone refuses modernist opticality, recasts artistic labour, and emphasizes a non-anthropocentric concept of time. Penone’s approach challenges viewers to broaden their sensory and temporal perceptions, creating structurally significant new ways to understand human experience. Giuseppe Penone is best known for his engagement with trees, which he employs as raw material, imagery, and an active force in the creative process. Seeing Through Closed Eyelids suggests that such works materialize the perceptible tensions between any organism and its environment. By locating Penone’s art in its social context and connecting it to broader discourses about art’s status, theories of phenomenology, and the anthropocene, this book offers an original reading of Penone’s work, as well as a wider view of the artistic generation for whom sculpture was a means to probe the nature of experience itself at the dawn of postmodernism.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781487500580 9781487511340
10.3138/9781487511340 doi
ART / Individual Artists / Monographs.
Art and Phenomenology. Art and Philosophy. Art in Turin/Arte di Torino. Arte Povera. Contemporary Italian Art. Environmental Art. Giuseppe Penone. Land Art. Modern art. Postwar European Art. Sculpture.
N6923.P38 / M36 2021
709.2
Seeing Through Closed Eyelids : Giuseppe Penone and the Nature of Sculpture / Elizabeth Mangini. - 1 online resource (238 p.) : 41 colour illustrations, 46 b&w illustrations - Toronto Italian Studies .
Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: His Being in the Twenty-Second Year of Life at a Fantastic Hour -- 1 Presentness and Trace -- 2 An Artist Turned Inside Out -- 3 Radical Reciprocity: Passive Sculptor / Active Material -- 4 Tempus Arborus (Tree Time) -- Conclusion An Ontology of Sculpture – Form, Process, and Palimpsest -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Can a work of art help us know our world differently? In this first scholarly study of Giuseppe Penone, art historian Elizabeth Mangini argues that the Italian artist’s engagement of the body’s multiple senses constitutes a new theory of sculpture as a means to connect with and know the phenomenal world. Through close readings of signal works across Penone’s five-decade career – from his emergence in the context of 1960s Arte povera to his position as a pre-eminent contemporary artist today – Mangini demonstrates how Penone refuses modernist opticality, recasts artistic labour, and emphasizes a non-anthropocentric concept of time. Penone’s approach challenges viewers to broaden their sensory and temporal perceptions, creating structurally significant new ways to understand human experience. Giuseppe Penone is best known for his engagement with trees, which he employs as raw material, imagery, and an active force in the creative process. Seeing Through Closed Eyelids suggests that such works materialize the perceptible tensions between any organism and its environment. By locating Penone’s art in its social context and connecting it to broader discourses about art’s status, theories of phenomenology, and the anthropocene, this book offers an original reading of Penone’s work, as well as a wider view of the artistic generation for whom sculpture was a means to probe the nature of experience itself at the dawn of postmodernism.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781487500580 9781487511340
10.3138/9781487511340 doi
ART / Individual Artists / Monographs.
Art and Phenomenology. Art and Philosophy. Art in Turin/Arte di Torino. Arte Povera. Contemporary Italian Art. Environmental Art. Giuseppe Penone. Land Art. Modern art. Postwar European Art. Sculpture.
N6923.P38 / M36 2021
709.2