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037			_cPurchased _nPrism Books,Kadavanthra
041			_aEnglish
082			_a292.2114 _bAGA/NY
100			_aAgamben,Giorgio
245			_aNYMPHS _c/Translated by Amanda Minervini
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260			_aLondon _bSeagull _c2013/01/01
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490			_aThe Italian List
500			_aIn 1900, art historians André Jolles and Aby Warburg constructed an experimental dialogue in which Jolles supposed he had fallen in love with the figure of a young woman in a painting: “A fantastic figure—shall I call her a servant girl, or rather a classical nymph?…what is the meaning of it all?…Who is the nymph? Where does she come from?” Warburg’s response: “in essence she is an elemental spirit, a pagan goddess in exile,” serves as the touchstone for this wide-ranging and theoretical exploration of female representation in iconography. In Nymphs, the newest translation of Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben’s work, the author notes that academic research has lingered on the “pagan goddess,” while the concept of “elemental spirit,” ignored by scholars, is vital to the history of iconography. Tracing the genealogy of this idea, Agamben goes on to examine subjects as diverse as the aesthetic theories of choreographer Domineco da Piacenza, Friedrich Theodor Vischer’s essay on the “symbol,” Walter Benjamin’s concept of the dialectic image, and the bizarre discoveries of photographer Nathan Lerner in 1972. From these investigations, there emerges a startlingly original exploration of the ideas of time and the image. Agamben is the rare writer whose ideas and works have a broad appeal across many fields, and Nymphs will engage not only the author’s devoted fans in philosophy, legal theory, sociology, and literary criticism, but his growing audience among art theorists and historians as well.
650			_aNymphes - (divinités grecques).
650			_aNymphs (Greek deities).
650			_aNymphes (Divinités grecques) dans les arts.
650			_aNymphes (Divinités grecques) dans la littérature.
650			_aDéesses dans l'art.
650			_aFemmes dans l'art.
650			_aEsthétisme (Art)
650			_aAesthetics.
650			_aNymphs (Greek deities) in art.
650			_aEsthétique.
700			_aAmanda Minervini (tr.)
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