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Pissing Figures 1280-2014 by Lebensztejn, Jean-Claude
by Lebensztejn, Jean-Claude | PB | Good
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- Condition
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- Binding
- Paperback
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- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
- No
- ISBN
- 9781941701546
- Book Title
- Pissing Figures
- Book Series
- Ekphrasis Ser.
- Publisher
- Zwirner Books, David
- Item Length
- 7 in
- Publication Year
- 2017
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.6 in
- Genre
- Art
- Topic
- Reference, European
- Item Weight
- 6.7 Oz
- Item Width
- 4.2 in
- Number of Pages
- 192 Pages
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"Not just anyone makes a good pisser."--Jean-Claude Lebensztejn Jean-Claude Lebensztejn's history of the urinating figure in art, Pissing Figures 1280-2014, is at once a scholarly inquiry into an important visual motif, and a ribald statement on transgression and limits in works of art in general. 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 small 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 located 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 cultural twists and turns, stopping to discuss Pier Paolo Pasolini's 1968 film Teorema , for example, and Marlene Dumas's 1996-97 homage to Rembrandt's pissing woman. At every moment, Lebensztejn's prose is lively, his thinking dynamic, and his subject matter entertaining.
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Publisher
Zwirner Books, David
ISBN-10
194170154x
ISBN-13
9781941701546
eBay Product ID (ePID)
15038648168
Product Key Features
Book Title
Pissing Figures
Number of Pages
192 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Reference, European
Publication Year
2017
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Art
Book Series
Ekphrasis Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
6.7 Oz
Item Length
7 in
Item Width
4.2 in
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In the book Pissing Figures - an academic volume with an aptly deep-orange cover - art historian Jean-Claude Lebensztejn unpacks the complexities of urination in Western art., ...[Lebensztejn] elegantly reveals how artists have repeatedly used our queasiness in the face of bodily functions to transgress narrow-minded cultural norms., The book, in a rangy, fluent translation from Jeff Nagy, is a record of what Lebensztejn calls our 'diuretic fantasies'?of the lore and lust surrounding urine, sacred and profane., The book, in a rangy, fluent translation from Jeff Nagy, is a record of what Lebensztejn calls our "diuretic fantasies"--of the lore and lust surrounding urine, sacred and profane., The books in the series seem designed to slip into your back pocket -- slim, spartan, and compact, sporting uniform covers consisting solely of typeface in black or white, with a matching horizontal bar across the top, against a solid color., The books in the series seem designed to slip into your back pocket - slim, spartan, and compact, sporting uniform covers consisting solely of typeface in black or white, with a matching horizontal bar across the top, against a solid color.
Dewey Edition
23
Lccn
2017-937790
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
700.4353
Lc Classification Number
N6853
Text by
Lebensztejn, Jean-Claude
Copyright Date
2017
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