{"product_id":"still-lives-maria-h-loh-9780691164960","title":"Still Lives: Death, Desire, and the Portrait of the Old Master","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow portraits of artists during the Renaissance helped create the first art stars in modern history\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMichelangelo was one of the biggest international art stars of his time, but being Michelangelo was no easy thing: he was stalked by fans, lauded and lambasted by critics, and depicted in unauthorized portraits. \u003ci\u003eStill Lives\u003c\/i\u003e traces the process by which artists such as Michelangelo, D rer, and Titian became early modern celebrities. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eArtists had been subjects of biographies since antiquity, but Renaissance artists were the first whose faces were sometimes as recognizable as their art. Maria Loh shows how this transformation was aided by the rapid expansion of portraiture and self-portraiture as independent genres in painting and sculpture. She examines the challenges confronting artists in this new image economy: What did it mean to be an image maker haunted by one's own image? How did these changes affect the everyday realities of artists and their workshops? And how did images of artists contribute to the way they envisioned themselves as figures in a history that would outlive them? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRichly illustrated, \u003ci\u003eStill Lives\u003c\/i\u003e is an original exploration of the invention of the artist portrait and a new form of secular stardom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Maria H. Loh\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0691164967\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691164960\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/22\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 328\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 3.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.30h x 8.40w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2015","brand":"Maria H. Loh","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43946952392959,"sku":"9780691164960","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_081bf2bb-410e-4d47-a9c9-3bf619fb4683.jpg?v=1681515880","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/still-lives-maria-h-loh-9780691164960","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}