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Jodi Cranston - The Muddied Mirror: Materiality and Figuration in Titian´s Later Paintings - 9780271035291 - V9780271035291
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The Muddied Mirror: Materiality and Figuration in Titian´s Later Paintings

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Description for The Muddied Mirror: Materiality and Figuration in Titian´s Later Paintings Hardback. Num Pages: 192 pages, 18 colour, 54 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: ACND; AFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 254 x 177 x 18. Weight in Grams: 771.
Ideal painting in the Renaissance was an art of illusionism that eliminated for the viewer any overt sense of its making. Titian's paintings, in contrast, with their roughly worked and open surfaces, unexpected glazes, and thick impasto brushstrokes, made the fact of the paint increasingly visible. Previous scholars have read these paintings as unfinished or the product of lesser studio hands, but in The Muddied Mirror, Jodi Cranston argues that this approach to paint is integral to Titian's later work. Rather than presenting in paint a precise reflection of the visible world, the artist imparted an intrinsic corporeality to his subjects through the varying mass and thickness of the paint. It is precisely the materiality and disfiguration of these paintings that offer us the key to understanding their meanings. More important, the subjects of Titian's late paintings are directly related to the materiality of the body-they represent physical changes wrought through violence, metamorphosis, and desire.

Product Details

Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Weight
771g
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780271035291
SKU
V9780271035291
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Ref
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About Jodi Cranston
Jodi Cranston is Associate Professor of Art History at Boston University. She is the author of The Poetics of Portraiture in the Italian Renaissance (1999).

Reviews for The Muddied Mirror: Materiality and Figuration in Titian´s Later Paintings
Cranston provides one of the most provocative critical examinations currently available of the rhetoric and reception of style in Renaissance art. . . . Cranston's text is logically argued and, like the paintings discussed, beautifully and effectively crafted. Its greatest value lies in mapping out new approaches to analyzing style in sixteenth-century visual culture. . . . The newness of the author's approach has indeed introduced analytical tactics not often seen in scholarship on Renaissance art. -Andrew R. Casper, Sixteenth Century Journal [Jodi Cranston's] sensitive reading of the images and of relevant literary and critical texts for the period provide more than ample reward for the reader interested in Venetian painting of the sixteenth century. -J. T. Paoletti, Choice Cranston has enormous insight into not only the artist's brush and its application onto the surface-perhaps no other Renaissance artist was as tactile as Titian-but also the underlying meaning of themes chosen by artist and patron. -Patricia Meilman, author of The Cambridge Companion to Titian

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