Caravaggio's secrets
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Author
Contributions
- Dutoit, Ulysse, 1944- - Contributor
Publication
1998 - MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass, Massachusetts
Language
English
Word Count
29,500 words, Guess
Page Count
118 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL357433M
- ISBN-100262024497
- OCLC Control Number38842168
- OCLC Control Numbercaravaggiossecre00bers
- Library of Congress Control Number98017336
and 2 more
- Goodreads1762149
- LibraryThing1049125
Classifications
- DDC759.5
- LCCND623.C26 B48 1998
Description
Many critics have explored the homoerotic message in the early portraits of the baroque painter Michelangelo Caravaggio (1573-1610). In Caravaggio's Secrets, Leo Bersani and Ulysse Dutoit emphasize instead the impenetrability of these portraits. The tension between erotic invitation and self-concealing retreat leads Bersani and Dutoit to conclude that the interest of these works is in their representation of an enigmatic address that solicits intimacy in order to block it with a secret. Bersani and Dutoit offer a psychoanalytic reading of the enigmatic address as initiating relations grounded in paranoid fascination. They study Caravaggio's attempts to move beyond such relations, his experiments with a space no longer circumscribed by the mutual and paranoid, if erotically stimulating, fascination with imaginary secrets.
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