{"product_id":"caravaggios-secrets-october-books-9780262024495","title":"Caravaggio's Secrets (October Books)","description":"\u003cp\u003eMany critics have explored the homoerotic message in the early portraits of the baroque painter Michelangelo Caravaggio (1573-1610). In Caravaggios Secrets  Leo Bersani and Ulysse Dutoit emphasize instead the impenetrability of these portraits. The tension between erotic invitation and self-concealing retreat leads Bersani and Dutoit to conclude that the interest of these works is in their representation of an enigmatic address that solicits intimacy in order to block it with a secret.  Bersani and Dutoit offer a psychoanalytic reading of the enigmatic address as initiating relations grounded in paranoid fascination. They study Caravaggios attempts to move beyond such relations  his experiments with a space no longer circumscribed by the mutual and paranoid  if erotically stimulating  fascination with imaginary secrets. In his most original work  Caravaggio proposes a radically new mode of connectedness  a nonerotic sensuality relevant to the most exciting attempts in our own time to rethink  perhaps even to reinvent  community.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45651864191029,"sku":"ByrdShop_0262024497","price":77.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780262024495.jpg?v=1781842795","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/caravaggios-secrets-october-books-9780262024495","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}