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What Time Is It?: Stories about Painting, Shadows and the Sun

What Time Is It?: Stories about Painting, Shadows and the Sun

Leibovici, Frank

Hardcover

Art Criticism & TheoryArt HistoryIndividual Artists

Publisher Price: $25.00

ISBN10: 2365680704
ISBN13: 9782365680707
Publisher: Jbe Books
Published: Mar 14 2023
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.60 Width: 9.20 Depth: 6.20
Language: English

A witty, ingenious, alternative history of art as a record of time

What is the purpose of the shadow in a painting, if not to indicate the time? David Hockney once proposed. In this revelatory volume, poet and artist Franck Leibovici invites us to a journey into six centuries of Western painting history through a simple question: what time is it? Relying on everyday knowledge, ancestral gestures and tools accessible to all (Google street view, suncalc.org) as well as osint (open source intelligence), Leibovici radically expands the metadata of iconic paintings by Breughel, De Chirico, Holbein, Lorrain, Manet, Monet, Renoir and more, offering us a refreshing approach to the history of art. Along the way, many small and unusual details, such as the Annunciation of the angel Gabriel to Mary a little too early, or the beginning of the moving image in painting, are revealed. Thanks to this book, we can finally know when exactly Jesus appeared to Mary Magdalene, Zeus abducted Europa or the emperor Titus conquered Jerusalem. Reproductions of each work discussed are accompanied by diagrammatic analyses of the painting.

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