The Art of Gesture
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
9781399529631 (ISBN)
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Andrew 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.
Benjamin 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.
Andrew Benjamin is an Honorary Professor in the School of Communication and Cultural Studies in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne. He has held posts in a number of UK and Australian universities. He started his career at the University of Warwick rising to the position of Professor of Philosophy and until 2022 taught for one semester each year at Kingston University in London where he was associated with the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy. He is the author of numerous books including Working with Walter Benjamin: Recovering a Political Philosophy (2013) and Of Jews and Animals (2011) both published by Edinburgh University Press.
Introduction: Gesture as Informed Form
Part I: Towards the Object
1. The Object of Expression
2. The Emergence of the Object: Kant on Genius
Part II: Aby Warburg and Walter Benjamin
3. The Doubling of Gesture: Aby Warburg and Walter Benjamin
4. Gesture and Expression: Limiting Lament’s Repetition: Walter Benjamin and Sophocles’ Electra
5. Empathy and Gesture: Warburg in La cappella Sassetti.
Part III: The Art of Christian Political Theology
6. Rosso Fiorentino’s ‘Dead’ Christs.
7. Piero della Francesca’s Resurrection.
Conclusion
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 30.4.2026 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 28 colour illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781399529631 / 9781399529631 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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