Author : Marco Ruffini
Release : 2011
Genre : Art
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis Art Without an Author by : Marco Ruffini
Download or read book Art Without an Author written by Marco Ruffini. This book was released on 2011. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Why is the history of art so often construed as a history of artists, when its alleged focus is art? This book responds to this question by examining Giorgio Vasari's Lives and the artist it features most centrally, Michelangelo. More than any other artist in the Lives, Michelangelo exemplifies art as an expression of the individual. Yet at the same time, as this book aims to show, the Lives fashions Michelangelo as the founder of a new academic era in which art develops collectively as a discipline. Paradoxically, Vasari's celebration of Michelangelo mobilizes a conception of art as teachable and transmissible that is antithetical to Michelangelo's aesthetic ideals and unique style."--Page 4 of cover.