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Art of Gesture: Classical and Renaissance Expressions [Kõva köide]

(University of Melbourne)
  • Formaat: Hardback, 240 pages, kõrgus x laius: 234x156 mm, 28 colour illustrations
  • Ilmumisaeg: 30-Apr-2026
  • Kirjastus: Edinburgh University Press
  • ISBN-10: 1399529633
  • ISBN-13: 9781399529631
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  • Formaat: Hardback, 240 pages, kõrgus x laius: 234x156 mm, 28 colour illustrations
  • Ilmumisaeg: 30-Apr-2026
  • Kirjastus: Edinburgh University Press
  • ISBN-10: 1399529633
  • ISBN-13: 9781399529631
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A philosophy or art in contradistinction to aesthetics. A genuine philosophical engagement with the detail of works of art.

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.

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What if a gesture could not only move or speak but think? From Pierro della Francesca to Aby Warburg, Andrew Benjamin offers a new history of artistic gesture as a philosophically, theologically and politically -- "informed" form. In The Art of Gesture, Benjamin does not simply forge a highly original and erudite dialogue between philosophy and art history but reveals the work of art as itself a form of philosophy. This remarkable book will be required reading for anyone working in philosophy, theology and history of art. -- Arthur Bradley, Lancaster University Not since Aby Warburg has there been such depth of analysis of Western painting in its modern Christian-pagan dialogue. Andrew Benjamin delivers a systemically developed philosophy of art with a theory of in-forming built on his "deep" reading of artworks that suspends the division between formal analysis and iconological interpretation. A truly brilliant achievement. -- Griselda Pollock, University of Leeds

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 Laments 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 Fiorentinos Dead Christs.
7. Piero della Francescas Resurrection.

Conclusion
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.