Art without an author
Subtitle: Vasari's Lives and Michelangelo's death
By: Marco Ruffini
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9780823234554; 9780823234561
Subjects: Art; Philosophy; Criticism and interpretation; Art and society; Study and teaching; Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.); Late Renaissance Art; History
Other titles: Vasari's Lives and Michelangelo's death
Description: "Why is the history of art so often construed as a history of artists, when its alleged focus is art? This book responds to this question by examining Giorgio Vasari's Lives and the artist it features most centrally, Michelangelo. More than any other artist in the Lives, Michelangelo exemplifies art as an expression of the individual. Yet at the same time, as this book aims to show, the Lives fashions Michelangelo as the founder of a new academic era in which art develops collectively as a discipline. Paradoxically, Vasari's celebration of Michelangelo mobilizes a conception of art as teachable and transmissible that is antithetical to Michelangelo's aesthetic ideals and unique style."--P. [4] of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Michelangelo's funeral; title: After Michelangelo; title: The making of the Lives; title: Describing art; title: Art as language.