Quoting Caravaggio
Contemporary Art, Preposterous History
328 pages, 62 color plates, 25 halftones 8-3/4 x 9-1/2
©
1999
Cloth $50.00
ISBN: 9780226035567
Published August 1999
Paper $32.50
ISBN: 9780226035574
Published March 2001
Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Preposterous History "Quoting ..." Re-Visioning the Baroque "... Caravaggio" (and Those Who Quote Him) Meta-Baroque Theoretical Objects and the Life of Ideas 1. Skin-Deep: A Baroque Point of View A History by Default/The Fold The Body Inside Out: Baroque Point of View Folds That Matter 2. White History White and the Mirror Death and the Body Nostalgia Isn't What It Used to Be 3. Reading Caravaggio: Basic Instincts and Their Discontents Misfiring Inside the Readable Interpellation and Identity 4. Sighting Time Time's Spurts of Blood Tombstones, Gossip, and Stories of Origin Visual Poetics A Poetics of Vision Playing the Game Art Writing 5. Space, Inc. The Matter with Semiosis Killing Mirrors The Index and Psychic Space Deixis: A Special Pleading for the Orientation of the Index Light and the Black Body 6. Second-Person Narrative Sticky Images Time Out Nonfigurative Narrative First Person, Second Person, Same Person Time, in Two Episodes Engaging Caravaggio Light-Writing The Sense of Not-Ending Is That Narrative? 7. Mirrors of Nature A Mirror with a Twist Mirroring Constructivism A Mirror with a Stain A Mirror That Cuts A Mirror with a Crack Presences Naturally Yours 8. Narcissus Now Beyond Mapping The Landscape in the Corner of Your Eye Narcissus's Vision The Mirror Cracked Framing Vision Afterword References Indexes
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