{"product_id":"seeing-through-closed-eyelids-giuseppe-penone-and-the-nature-of-sculpture-paperback-softback-9781487556969","title":"Seeing Through Closed Eyelids; Giuseppe Penone and the Nature of Sculpture (Paperback \/ softback) 9781487556969","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSeeing Through Closed Eyelids\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eGiuseppe Penone and the Nature of Sculpture\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eElizabeth Mangini (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781487556969\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 21 June 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e238 pages, 41 colour illustrations, 46 b\u0026amp;w illustrations\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.46 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eCan a work of art help us know our world differently? In this first scholarly study of Giuseppe Penone, art historian Elizabeth Mangini argues that the Italian artist\u0026amp;#x2019;s engagement of the body\u0026amp;#x2019;s multiple senses constitutes a new theory of sculpture as a means to connect with and know the phenomenal world. Through close readings of signal works across Penone\u0026amp;#x2019;s five-decade career – from his emergence in the context of 1960s Arte povera to his position as a pre-eminent contemporary artist today – Mangini demonstrates how Penone refuses modernist opticality, recasts artistic labour, and emphasizes a non-anthropocentric concept of time. Penone\u0026amp;#x2019;s approach challenges viewers to broaden their sensory and temporal perceptions, creating structurally significant new ways to understand human experience.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGiuseppe Penone is best known for his engagement with trees, which he employs as raw material, imagery, and an active force in the creative process. \u003ci\u003eSeeing Through Closed Eyelids\u003c\/i\u003e suggests that such works materialize the perceptible tensions between any organism and its environment. By locating Penone\u0026amp;#x2019;s art in its social context and connecting it to broader discourses about art\u0026amp;#x2019;s status, theories of phenomenology, and the anthropocene, this book offers an original reading of Penone\u0026amp;#x2019;s work, as well as a wider view of the artistic generation for whom sculpture was a means to probe the nature of experience itself at the dawn of postmodernism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Figures \u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eHis Being in the Twenty-Second Year of Life at a Fantastic Hour\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Presentness and Trace\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. The Artist Turned Inside-Out \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Radical Reciprocity: Passive Sculptor \/ Active Material\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Tempus Arborus (Tree Time)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion \u003cbr\u003eAn Ontology of Sculpture: Form, Process, and Palimpsest\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography \u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52676720689432,"sku":"9781487556969","price":20.86,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/seeing-through-closed-eyelids-giuseppe-penone-and-the-nature-of-sculpture-paperback-softback-9781487556969","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}