{"product_id":"antonioni-and-the-aesthetics-of-matilde-nardelli-9781474444057","title":"Antonioni and the Aesthetics of Impurity: Remaking the Image in the 1960s","description":"\u003cp\u003eInfluential, innovative and aesthetically experimental, the films of Michelangelo Antonioni are widely recognized as both exemplars of cinema and key in ushering in its 'new' or 'modern' incarnation around 1960. \u003cem\u003eAntonioni and the Aesthetics of Impurity\u003c\/em\u003e offers a radical rethinking of the director's work. It argues against prevalent understandings of it in terms of both cinematic purity and indebtedness to painting. Reconnecting Antonioni's aesthetically audacious films of the 1960s and 1970s to the ferment of their historical time, \u003cem\u003eAntonioni and the Aesthetics of Impurity\u003c\/em\u003e brings into relief these works' crucial, yet overlooked, affinity with the new, 'impure', art practices - of John Cage, Franco Vaccari, Robert Smithson, Piero Gilardi and Andy Warhol among others - that precipitated the demotion of painting from its privileged position as a paradigm for all the arts. Revealing an Antonioni who embraced both mixed and mass media and reflected on them via cinema, the book replaces auteuristic, if not hagiographic, accounts of the director's work with a new understanding of its critical significance across the modern visual arts and culture more broadly.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Matilde Nardelli\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1474444059\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781474444057\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/30\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.78lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.53d","brand":"Matilde Nardelli","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44130057093375,"sku":"9781474444057","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_105a2285-7d40-4820-a317-2d6bd181fb6d.jpg?v=1687467322","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/antonioni-and-the-aesthetics-of-matilde-nardelli-9781474444057","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}