Fabiola : an investigation
Francis Alÿs
Bok Engelsk 2008
| Utgitt | New Haven : Yale University Press (distr.) , 2008
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| Omfang | 90 sider, [128 sider] : illustrasjoner, figurer (noen kolorerte)
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| Opplysninger | "Utgitt i forbindelse med utstilling i Dia Art Foundation, New York". - Preface and acknowledgments / by Jeffrey Weiss -- Finding Fabiola / by David Morgan -- Beyond Fabiola : Henner in and out of his nineteenth-century context / by Stephen Bann -- Painting Fabiola : the hagiographer as literary artist / by Susan Laningham -- Consumption as production / by Martha Buskirk -- Francis Alys : instigator/investigator / by Lynne Cooke -- Letter LXXVII, To Oceanus on the death of Fabiola / by Saint Jerome -- Catalogue of works.. - Mexico City-based artist Francis Alys (b. 1959) has assembled a group of paintings depicting Saint Fabiola, a 4th-century saint who gave up all earthly possessions and devoted herself to the practice of Christian asceticism. All of the pictures in the collection are based on an original work, now lost, by the nineteenth-century French artist Jean-Jacques Henner. This collection of Fabiola portraits, numbering in the hundreds and painted by amateurs and professionals alike, is the focus of this intriguing book. Not only does it explore the artist's exploration of collecting practices, but the publication also offers an unusual window into aesthetic, sociological, and anthropological values of the past century.
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| ISBN | 9780300139167
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