The Art of Gesture
Classical and Renaissance Expressions
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Product details:
- Publisher Edinburgh University Press
- Date of Publication 30 April 2026
- ISBN 9781399529631
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages240 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 28 colour illustrations 700
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Short description:
A philosophy or art in contradistinction to aesthetics. A genuine philosophical engagement with the detail of works of art.
MoreLong description:
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.
Table of Contents:
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 Lament’s 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 Fiorentino’s ‘Dead’ Christs.
7. Piero della Francesca’s Resurrection.
Conclusion
