Dante's Vision and the Artist: Four Modern Illustrators of the Commedia by Paolini, Shirley

Dante's Vision and the Artist: Four Modern Illustrators of the Commedia (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780820415581)

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Dante's Vision and the Artist: Four Modern Illustrators of the Commedia by Paolini, Shirley

Dante's Vision and the Artist: Four Modern Illustrators of the Commedia

$91.95
Dante's Vision and the Artist: Four Modern Illustrators of the Commedia by Paolini, Shirley

Dante's Vision and the Artist: Four Modern Illustrators of the Commedia

$91.95
Format: Hardcover
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This book explores the interconnections of Dante's Divine Comedy and four modern painters: Nattini, Rauschenberg, Dalmodern painters: Nattini, Rauschenberg, Dalí, and Phillipps. It argues for Dante's painterly vision, and in this context establishes the medieval poet as a pre-Renaissance presence, pointing to his Classical, naturalistic manner of seeing, among other things, the human figure. His optic, Barricelli maintains, is so forceful that it has imposed its anatomical realism on most illustrators from the Renaissance (epitomized by Michelangelo) down to the present. The premise holds through the poetic realism of Nattini, the socio-political expressionism of Rauschenberg, the psychological surrealism and devout religiosity of Dalí, and the pictorial figurative and non-figurative art of Phillipps.

Author: Shirley Paolini,Jean-Pierre Barricelli
ISBN-10: 0820415588
ISBN-13: 9780820415581
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Language: English
Published: 08/01/1993
Pages: 154
Format: Hardcover
By Shirley Paolini
By Shirley Paolini
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The author: Dr. Barricelli was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1924, and received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1953 after serving for three years in the armed forcesduring World War II. He has taught at Harvard, Brandeis, Western Reserve, NYU, the Norwegian School of Business, and since 1963 has been Professor of Humanities and Comparative Literature at the University of California-Riverside. He has chaired his department for many years. A PBK, he was awarded his campus' Distinguished Teaching Award and the Kenan Distinguished Professor of Humanities chair at William and Mary. He has received awards from such agencies as Fulbright, ACLS, California Humanities Institute, and the Rockefeller Fondation. He has lectured widely nationally and internationally, and, alongside his work as a creative writer, composer, and painter, he has published sixteen books of criticism and over a hundred articles.

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