The Renaissance
Subtitle: revised, expanded, unexpurgated
By: D. Medina Lasansky, editor
Publisher: Periscope Publishing
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Pittsburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 639
ISBN-13: 9781934772256
Subjects: Renaissance; Influence; History in popular culture
Description: The volume pools new research from a team of experts in art, architecture, history, and literature, and juxtaposes modern and classical art and explores the relationship between them. The book's 129 illustrations include images of contemporary art never before related to the Renaissance, and well-known appropriations of classical art. The front cover shows Andy Warhol's Detail from a Renaissance Painting (1984), based on Botticelli's The Birth of Venus. "We're trying to shake up the field of Renaissance studies," says Lasansky. "It's so elitist and so stodgy and so male. There are a lot of things that have never been discussed."
Table of contents: title: The birth of Venus. Revise, expand, unexpurgate / D. Medina Lasansky with Gloria Kury; title: Sex matters. The Da Vinci Code. The sex of artists in Renaissance Italy / Patricia Simons ; Inventing Michelangelo / James M. Saslow; title: Originals, copies, mutants. A Venetian Wedding. Raphael redux / Anne Higonnet ; The Sopranos, mannerist painting, and postmodern television / Cristelle Baskins; title: When art speaks. A visit to the Sistine Chapel. Pasquino, blogging in the streets of Rome / Brian A. Curran and Andrea Vera Raymond ; Sacred graffiti / D. Medina Lasansky; title: La Bella figura. Renaissance plastic surgery. The way you wear your hat / Ian Frederick Moulton ; The case of the errant art historian / Gloria Kury; title: Conspicuous consumption. Renaissance imports. The Medici McMansion? / Denise R. Costanzo ; The golden girl / Carole Collier Frick ; Better than Venice / D. Meldina Lasansky; title: Food drama. The art of eating. The power of mother's milk / Yael Manes ; Mattia Giegher living / Evelyn Lincoln; title: Follow the itinerary. Hitler, consummate tourist. A semester in Rome / Sarah Benson ; Mother road / Catherine Wilkinson Zerner; title: A moral compass. The bonfire of the vanities. Looking at sex, I modi to cosmo / Sarah Benson; title: Lovely and lethal / Gloria Kury; title: Blind spots. The ghetto. Forgetting the Mediterranean / Maria Galli Stampino; title: Portraits of the invisible.