M
: The Man Who Became Caravaggio
by Peter Robb
Sometimes known simply as M, Caravaggio threw out Renaissance dogma
to paint with dazzling originality and fierce vitality--qualities that
are echoed in Robb's prose as he suspends time to capture the artist's
wild and tempestuous life. Powells.com
Book Description: A bold, fresh biography of the world's first modern
painter
As presented with "blood and bone and sinew" (Times Literary Supplement)
by Peter Robb, Caravaggio's wild and tempestuous life was a provocation
to a culture in a state of siege. The end of the sixteenth century was
marked by the Inquisition and Counter-Reformation, a background of ideological
cold war against which, despite all odds and at great cost to their creators,
brilliant feats of art and science were achieved. No artist captured the
dark, violent spirit of the time better than Caravaggio, variously known
as Marisi, Moriggia, Merigi, and sometimes, simply M. As art critic Robert
Hughes has said, "There was art before him and art after him, and they
were not the same."
Caravaggio threw out Renaissance dogma to paint with dazzling originality
and fierce vitality, qualities that are echoed in Robb's prose. As with
Caravaggio's art, M arrests and suspends time to reveal what the author
calls "the theater of the partly seen." Caravaggio's wild persona leaps
through these pages like quicksilver; in Robb's skilled hands, he is an
immensely attractive character with an astonishing connection to the glories
and brutalities of life.
Hardcover - 570 pages (February 2000)
Henry Holt & Company, Inc.; ISBN: 0805063560 |
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Caravaggio
by Howard Hibbard
Paperback - 404 pages
Reprint edition (February 1985) Icon (Harpe) |
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Caravaggio
by John T. Spike
(Hardcover - October 2001)
Caravaggio
: Quadrifolio (Rizzoli Quadrifolio)
by Stefano Zuffi, Michelangelo Merisi Da Caravaggio
(Hardcover - May 2001)
Caravaggio:
Master of Light and Dark--His Life in Paintings
by Michelangelo Merisi Da Caravaggio, Rosa Giorgi
(Paperback)
Caravaggio
(Library of the Great Masters)
by Giorgio Bonsanti, Paul Blanchard (Translator)
(Paperback - March 1995)
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Caravaggio
by Catherine Puglisi
As Catherine Puglisi points out in the most beautiful Caravaggio book
ever, the soulful, tormented, ethereally talented painter has become a
pop icon, with a "full-blown industry of Caravaggio publications." Puglisi's
book is a standout in this crowded field. With remarkable evenhandedness,
she sifted through the scholarship and discoveries--and the trash--of the
past 20 years and wrote a Caravaggio book that does justice to the painter's
glorious work. She doesn't skimp on the juicy parts of his life, however:
she candidly but coolly recounts and appraises the bits of historical evidence
for his sexuality (both hetero and homo), his use of whores and ruffians
as models, and his many scrapes with the law. Amazon.com
Paperback - 448 pages (June 2000)
Phaidon Press Inc.; ISBN: 0714839663
Caravaggio:
A Life by Helen Langdon
Hardcover - 432 pages (June 1999)
Farrar Straus & Giroux (Juv)
Caravaggio's
Secrets
by Leo Bersani, Ulysse Dutoit
Caravaggio's Secrets begins with the painter's supposedly homoerotic
work and moves from there into a discussion his art in a psychoanalytic
context. One of the coauthors is a professor of French, the other, a teacher
of film, and they join many other non-art historians who have offered critical
commentary on Caravaggio's work. "Castration/decapitation has left David
in a state of between-ness," they write of David with the Head of Goliath
(1609-10), "not only between gendered identities but also between existential
violence and what Caravaggio appears to conceive of as the aesthetic consequence
of that violence.... In Goliath's head, David-Caravaggio has painted his
own castration."
This book is probably not for general readers, but those whose interest
in Caravaggio is not fully sated by some of the other, more general books
on the market will likely find their fill here. --Peggy Moorman
Hardcover - 140 pages
(October 1998) MIT Press
Caravaggio
(Colour Library)
by Timothy Wilson-Smith
Paperback - 80 pages 1 Ed edition
(December 1998) Phaidon Press Inc.
Caravaggio
(Masters of Art)
by Alfred Moir
Hardcover - 128 pages Reprint edition (October 1989)
Harry N Abrams
Quoting Caravaggio : Contemporary Art, Preposterous History
by Mieke Bal
Mieke Bal's primary object of investigation in Quoting Caravaggio is
not the great seventeenth-century painter, but rather the issue of temporality
in art. In order to retheorize linear notions of influence in cultural
production, Bal analyzes the productive relationship between Caravaggio
and a number of late-twentieth-century artists who "quote" the baroque
master in their own works. These artists include Andres Serrano, Carrie
Mae Weems, Ken Aptekar, David Reed, and Ana Mendieta, among others. Amazon.com
(Paperback - March 2001)
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Caravaggio: A Passionate Life
by Desmond Seward
Hardcover - 224 pages (November 1998)
William Morrow & Company
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