TY - BOOK AU - Mangini,Elizabeth TI - Seeing Through Closed Eyelids: Giuseppe Penone and the Nature of Sculpture T2 - Toronto Italian Studies SN - 9781487500580 AV - N6923.P38 M36 2021 U1 - 709.2 23 PY - 2021///] CY - Toronto PB - University of Toronto Press KW - ART / Individual Artists / Monographs KW - bisacsh KW - Art and Phenomenology KW - Art and Philosophy KW - Art in Turin/Arte di Torino KW - Arte Povera KW - Contemporary Italian Art KW - Environmental Art KW - Giuseppe Penone KW - Land Art KW - Modern art KW - Postwar European Art KW - Sculpture N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487511340 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781487511340 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781487511340/original ER -