{"product_id":"quoting-caravaggio-contemporary-art-preposterous-history-9780226035567","title":"Quoting Caravaggio: Contemporary Art  Preposterous History","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs period  as style  as sensibility  the Baroque remains elusive  its definition subject to dispute. Perhaps this is so in part because baroque vision resists separation of mind and body  form and matter  line and color  image and discourse. In Quoting Caravaggio  Mieke Bal deploys this insight of entanglement as a form of art analysis  exploring its consequences for both contemporary and historical art  as well as for current conceptions of history.  Mieke Bals primary object of investigation in Quoting Caravaggio is not the great seventeenth-century painter  but rather the issue of temporality in art. In order to retheorize linear notions of influence in cultural production  Bal analyzes the productive relationship between Caravaggio and a number of late-twentieth-century artists who \"quote\" the baroque master in their own works. These artists include Andres Serrano  Carrie Mae Weems  Ken Aptekar  David Reed  and Ana Mendieta  among others. Each chapter of Quoting Caravaggio shows particular ways in which quotation is vital to the new art but also to the source from which it is derived. Through such dialogue between present and past  Bal argues for a notion of \"preposterous history\" where works that appear chronologically first operate as an aftereffect caused by the images of subsequent artists.  Quoting Caravaggio is a rigorous  rewarding work: it is at once a meditation on history as creative  nonlinear process; a study of the work of Caravaggio and the Baroque; and  not least  a brilliant critical exposition of contemporary artistic representation and practice.  \"A profoundly enlivening exercise in art criticism  in which the lens of theory magnifies rather than diminishes its object. . . . A remarkable book. . . . The power of Quoting Caravaggio resides in the intelligence and authority of the writer.\"Roger Malbert  Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44935013040181,"sku":"ByrdShop_0226035565","price":334.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780226035567.jpg?v=1787604553","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/quoting-caravaggio-contemporary-art-preposterous-history-9780226035567","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}