Sculpted by Dead Marbles: Winckelmann's Outer Selves and the Body without Organs
Résumé
Winckelmann's famous written descriptions of ancient works of art (such as the Belvedere Apollo, Torso, and Laocoon)create very special spaces, linked to the viewer's desire and the writer's self. External 'dead' objects - the sculptures - become "animated spaces", through a series of images that produce a new body. Not quite human, and not 'mimetic', this body fuses with the interiority of the writer/describer.
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