Pissing Figures by Jeanclaude Lebensztejn
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 sma ll 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 loc ated 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 behind a pillar urinating through a hole in his garment. He continues to navigate expertly through cu ltural twists and turns, stopping to discuss Pier Paolo Pasolini's 1968 film Teorema , for example, and Marlene Dumas's 1996 - 1997 homage to Rembrandt's pissing woman. At every moment, Lebensztejn's prose is lively, his thinking dynamic, and his subject matt er entertaining. In this short and poignant cultural history, readers will not only find the care for detail that has made Lebensztejn into one of the greatest European art historians, but also the rebelliousness that makes him one of the most interesting intellectuals of our time.-
Blue
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The Critic as Artist
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Oh, To Be a Painter!
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Letters to a Young Painter
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Mad about Painting
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Photography and Belief
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The Psychology of an Art Writer
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Souvenirs: From a Memoir
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Ramblings of a Wannabe Painter
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The Cathedral is Dying
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Dix Portraits
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Something Close to Music
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The Salon of 1846
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Chardin and Rembrandt
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Hebdomeros: A Novel
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My Friend Van Gogh
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Degas and His Model
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Any Day Now: Toward a Black Aesthetic
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Giotto and His Works in Padua
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28 Paradises
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On Contemporary Art
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Kandinsky: Incarnating Beauty
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Strange Impressions
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Marguerite Yourcenar: A Dream of Stone
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Duchamp's Last Day
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That Still Moment: Poetry and Essays on Dance
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A Balthus Notebook
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Summoning Pearl Harbor
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Intuition
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My Morandi
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Two Cities
Lebensztejn, Jean-Claude: - Jean-Claude Lebensztejn is Professor of Art History at the University of Paris I and has written essays, articles and books on art, poetry, linguistics and cinema.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781941701546 |
| ISBN 10 | 194170154X |
| Title | Pissing Figures |
| Author | Jeanclaude Lebensztejn |
| Series | Ekphrasis |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | David Zwirner |
| Year published | 2017-06-29 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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