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Pissing Figures

Pocket
Engelsk
Ekphrasis
Pissing Figures
Pissing Figures
  • Format: Pocket
  • Antall sider: 192
  • Språk: Engelsk
  • Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
  • Serienavn: Ekphrasis
  • EAN: 9781941701546
  • Utgivelsesår: 2017
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Jean-Claude Lebensztejn’s history of the urinating figure in art, Pissing Figures 1280–2014, is at once a scholarly inquiry into an important visual motif, and a ribald statement on transgression and limits in works of art in general. Lebensztejn is one of France’s best-kept secrets. A world-class art historian who has lectured and taught at major universities in the United States, his work has remained almost entirely in French, his American audience limited to a small but dedicated group of cognoscenti. First introducing the Manneken Pis—the iconic little boy whose stream of urine supplies water to this famous fountain and is also the logo for a Belgian beer company—the author takes the reader through a semi-scatological maze of cultural history. The earliest example is a fresco scene located directly above Cimabue’s Crucifixion from around 1280 at the Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi, in which Lebensztejn’s careful eye locates an angel be