{"product_id":"the-art-of-gesture-andrew-benjamin-9781399529631","title":"The Art of Gesture: Classical and Renaissance Expressions","description":"\u003cp\u003eAndrew Benjamin approaches the relationship between philosophy and art history through the concept of gesture. Critically engaging with Walter Benjamin, Aby Warburg and Giorgio Agamben, by focusing on gesture he offers a novel philosophical intervention into the classical problem of 'meaning' in art, as well as addressing the new perspectives brought by political theology into art theory. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBenjamin uses gesture to function as the continual point of orientation, allowing works of art and their detail to be central. Original interpretations of Domenico Ghirlandaio, Rosso Fiorentino and Piero dell Francesca show how Christian political theology has an operative presence within the works of art examined. A key theme running through the book is the question of time in the work of art, alongside the question of how art history, and the representation of history in art, are to be understood philosophically.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Andrew Benjamin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1399529633\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781399529631\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 04\/30\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Andrew Benjamin","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47965457842431,"sku":"9781399529631","price":125.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_cb10b841-ab4e-4e57-978a-870566a2a7d2.jpg?v=1767280698","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-art-of-gesture-andrew-benjamin-9781399529631","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}