Full Description
Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) remains best known for his influential cinematic and literary works. These attest in turn to a crucial early formation: Pasolini's intermittent practice as a painter, critic, and historian of art. Spanning the fifth-century BCE to the early twenty-first century, this volume's chapters reflect the breadth of Pasolini's aesthetic commitments and predilections, from Greek Attic vase painting to the to the spread of Caravaggism; from folkloric ethnography to the painting of Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol. Alongside essays examining his influence on twentieth- and twenty-first century aesthetics, artists of different nationality, gender, and generation address Pasolini's continued consequence for their own work. The very notion of a politically engaged artistic practice owes a debt to Pasolini's oeuvre - one he called "extravagantly interdisciplinary," and which finds incisive reflection in the media, methods, and subjects addressed in these pages.
Contents
Introduction: Pasolini between contamination and closure - Ara H. Merjian
A force of the past
1 'And I Am Wrought from Water and Stone': Pasolini's sculptural affinities between desire and eternity - Tommaso Mozzati
2 The red of history: Pasolini, Guttuso, and the Communist painter of modern life - Jacopo Galimberti
3 Things in light and dust: Pasolini and Giorgio Morandi - Vega Tescari
4 Pasolini's Picasso between passion and ideology - Francesco Galluzzi
5 Allegories of iconicity: Pasolini's Marylin Monroes and mushroom clouds - Toni Hildebrandt
6 'Inside the inferno' - T.J. Clark interviewed by Dan Ward
More modern than any modern
7 Longhi, Pasolini, and the photographic conditions of Cinema Masaccesca - Todd P. Olson
8 The traveling hat: Greek painting on the move in Pasolini's Oedipus Rex - Ava Shirazi
9 Pasolini's radical renaissance: the lecture on Romanino and an art of our times - Stephen J. Campbell
10 'What are the clouds?': Velázquez, Shklovsky, and the gaze of childhood - Armando Maggi
11 Curds, Christ, and Caravaggian questions - Alessandro Giammei
12 Pasolini and/in practice:
Grazia Toderi
Ming Wong
Raed Rafei
Francesco Arena
Cathy Lee Crane
Adrian Paci
Francesco Vezzoli
Pietro Roccasalva
Ming-Yuen S. Ma
Ayreen Anastas
Gaëlle Choisne
Marzia Migliora
Adam Chodzko
Elisabetta Benassi
Mamadou Khouma Gueye
Alfredo Jaar
Inactual afterlifes
13 David Wojnarowicz's Pasolinian dream: art against the 'One Tribe Nation' from Aby Warburg to 1980s America - Benjamin Fellman
14 Pasolini's refracted image - Barry Schwabsky
15 From voice to presence: poetry, body, and image in Pasolini, 1964-75 - Stefano Chiodi
16 Following Pasolini: queer artists and the question of filiation - Jonathan Mullins
17 Salò after Salò: expanded readings of Pasolini's last film - Gian Maria Annovi
18 The ashes of Eurocommunism: on Pasolini's renewable relevance - Andreas Petrossiants
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