Subject as Aporia in Early Modern Art

Download or read book Subject as Aporia in Early Modern Art written by Alexander Nagel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume focuses on early modern paintings, sculpture and other artworks in which subjects have been difficult to define, which constitute potentially or actually visual aporias. Using specific examples as case studies, contributors analyze borderline visual cases in which subjects are "smudged" either due to the convergence of discordant elements or to a dearth, insufficiency or ambivalence of iconographic components.