El cuerpo es últimamente centro de interés creciente de las ciencias humanas. Sus secretos están lejos de ser completamente desvelados. Estudios recientes insisten en que el cuerpo tiene una historia y que esta historia abarca apariencia y profundidad, deseo y poder, caída y apoteosis, vida y muerte. Este es el contexto en el que el presente libro pretende adentrarse, apelando a los instrum…
This intriguing book on Goya concentrates on the closing years of the eighteenth century as a neglected milestone in his life. Goya waited until 1799 to publish his celebrated series of drawings, the Caprichos, which offered a personal vision of the 'world turned upside down'. Victor I. Stoichita and Anna Maria Coderch consider how themes of Revolution and Carnival (both seen as inversions of t…
Stoichita's compelling account untangles the history of one of the most enduring challenges to beset Western art - the depiction and meanings of shadows. "discriminating, inspired interrogation... dazzling analysis"—Marina Warner, Tate Magazine "Ambitious and a pleasure to read... a thoroughly worthwhile book."— Times Higher Education Supplement