Visualizing Boccaccio
Studies on Illustrations of the Decameron, from Giotto to Pasolini
Series: Cambridge Studies in New Art History and Criticism;
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 28 March 1997
- ISBN 9780521496001
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages228 pages
- Size 229x152x17 mm
- Weight 510 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
A 1997 study of visual and verbal interpretations of Boccaccio's The Decameron.
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Originally published in 1997, Visualizing Boccaccio represents an intriguing approach to the interpretation of Boccaccio's classic book of erotic tales, The Decameron. Using literary, critical, psychoanalytic, and film theories, Jill Ricketts offers a feminist critique of these stories, exposing tensions generated by sexual difference that motivate privilege and investigating the possibilities of change in power relations associated with that privilege. In a comparison of selected tales from The Decameron with works by Cimabue and Giotto, fifteenth-century manuscript illumination, a series of paintings by Botticelli, and Pier Paolo Pasolini's cinematic interpretation of the tales, Ricketts also demonstrates how the juxtaposition of verbal and visual renditions permit new interpretation of each of these works.
"...a book rich in enlightening analysis of visual detail and eager to assess the symbolic weight of such intangibles as color and form..." Choice
Table of Contents:
1. Beastly Gualtieri: another audience for the Tale of Griselda; 2. Illuminating metaphors: the tale of Tancredi, Ghismunda and Guiscardo; 3. Boccaccio, Botticelli and the tale of Nastagio: the subversion of visuality by painting; 4. Imaginative artistry: Giotto, Boccaccio and Pasolini; 5. Living pictures: high art pastiche and the cruising gaze in Pasolini's Decameron.
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