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Title Statement Art as existence : the artist's monograph and its project
Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint) MIT Press , Cambridge, Mass. ; 2006 : 2006
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ISBN 0-262-07268-8 (hc : alk. paper) 0-262-07268-8
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Is the artist's monograph an endangered species or a timeless genre? This critical history traces the formal and conceptual trajectories of art history's favorite form, from Vasari onward, and reconsiders the validity of the life-and-work model for the twenty-first century.
The narrative of the artist's life and work is one of the oldest models in the Western literature of the visual arts. In Art as Existence , Gabriele Guercio investigates the metamorphosis of the artist's monograph, tracing its formal and conceptual trajectories from Vasari's sixteenth-century Lives of the Painters, Sculptors, and Architects (which provided the model and source for the genre) through its apogee in the nineteenth century and decline in the twentieth. He looks at the legacy of the life-and-work model and considers its prospects in an intellectual universe of deconstructionism, psychoanalysis, feminism, and postcolonialism.
Since Vasari, the monograph has been notable for its fluidity and variety; it can be scrupulous and exact, probing and revelatory, poetic and imaginative, or any combination of these. In the nineteenth century, the monograph combined art-historical, biographical, and critical methods, and even added elements of fiction. Guercio explores some significant books that illustrate key phases in the model's evolution, including works by Gustav Friedrich Waagen, A. C. Quatremère de Quincy, Johann David Passavant, Bernard Berenson, and others.
The hidden project of the artist's monograph, Guercio claims, comes from a utopian impulse; by commuting biography into art and art into biography, the life-and-work model equates art and existence, construing otherwise distinct works of an artist as chapters of a life story. Guercio calls for a contemporary reconsideration of the life-and-work model, arguing that the ultimate legacy of the artist's monograph does not lie in its established modes of writing but in its greater project and in the intimate portrait that we gain of the nature of creativity.
List of Figures p. viii Acknowledgments p. xii Introduction: The Artist's Monograph as a Project p. 2 Life and Works Vasari's Lives and the Dialectic of the Model p. 24 Circa 1800: The Artist's Monograph Becomes a Genre p. 34 One Artist Only Narratives: Endurance and Metamorphosis p. 48 Waagen's Study of the Van Eycks p. 61 The "Who" Question p. 69 The Oeuvre Unity and Multiplicity in Raphael's Works p. 74 Passavant's Rafael p. 91 Resonances of the Idea of the Oeuvre p. 107 The Ascendancy of Biography Three Books on Michelangelo p. 112 Delécluze's David p. 127 Justi and the Indivisible Remainder of Velázquez's Singularity p. 134 Sites of Identity Oeuvre and Biography: A Difficult Balance p. 148 Clément's Géricault p. 156 The Truth of the Art and the Truth of the Facts p. 167 Crowe and Cavalcasselle's Investigation of the Creative Process p. 180 Engendering Presence A Unifying Perspective of Inquiry p. 194 "Constructive Art Criticism" in Berenson's Lotto p. 197 Toward a Definition of the Artistic Personality p. 212 Reinterpreting the Separateness of the Artworks p. 219 Fluctuations and Decline A State of Uncertainty p. 226 The Twentieth-Century Monograph p. 228 Reasons for Its Decline p. 251 Reconsidering the Project Present Prospects p. 262 Avenues of Transfiguration p. 263 Revived Overtures p. 283 Notes p. 294 Index p. 366