Visualizing Boccaccio
Studies on Illustrations of the Decameron, from Giotto to Pasolini
Part of Cambridge Studies in New Art History and Criticism
- Author: Jill M. Ricketts
- Date Published: March 2011
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521174541
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Originally published in 1997, Visualizing Boccaccio represents an intriguing approach to the interpretation of Boccaccio's classic book of erotic tales, The Decameron. Using literary, critical, psychoanalytic, and film theories, Jill Ricketts offers a feminist critique of these stories, exposing tensions generated by sexual difference that motivate privilege and investigating the possibilities of change in power relations associated with that privilege. In a comparison of selected tales from The Decameron with works by Cimabue and Giotto, fifteenth-century manuscript illumination, a series of paintings by Botticelli, and Pier Paolo Pasolini's cinematic interpretation of the tales, Ricketts also demonstrates how the juxtaposition of verbal and visual renditions permit new interpretation of each of these works.
Read more- Includes detailed discussion of Pasolini's homosexual aesthetic in his film The Decameron
- Explores the uses of fantasy, imagination and play in the production of verbal and visual art
- Interrogates and clarifies gender bias in both the verbal and visual renditions of the tales
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- Date Published: March 2011
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521174541
- length: 226 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 12 mm
- weight: 0.31kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Beastly Gualtieri: another audience for the Tale of Griselda
2. Illuminating metaphors: the tale of Tancredi, Ghismunda and Guiscardo
3. Boccaccio, Botticelli and the tale of Nastagio: the subversion of visuality by painting
4. Imaginative artistry: Giotto, Boccaccio and Pasolini
5. Living pictures: high art pastiche and the cruising gaze in Pasolini's Decameron.
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