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An impressively wide-ranging analysis of the monograph from its Renaissance antecedents to the present. -- Ann Compton, The Art Book Independent, passionate, and unexpected. -- Christopher S. Wood, Artforum In this impressive and engagingly written first book, Gabriele Guercio poses a focal question for the history of art: what have been the forms and goals of the centuries-long art-historical construction of the monograph, which aims to join the who of the artist--his/her inner and mundane life--with the oeuvre? Guercio's overview of the monograph from the Renaissance to the present day is enriched by his command of the philosophical and theoretical roots of its evolution. --James S. Ackerman, Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Fine Arts Emeritus, Harvard University Gabriele Guercio's informed and original reading of the monograph from its origins in the era of Vasari to the late twentieth century is a revivalist ghost story narrated around the embers of the 'death of the artist.' Art as Existence offers not only an intriguing critical narrative of the 'life-and-work model' but also engages its central propositions with a range of recent reflections on intention and imagination, singularity and social extension as they are played out in the particularity of the artwork. Essential for students of methodology, genre, and historiography; and a useful exorcism for the structural abstraction in all of us. --John C. Welchman, Professor of Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego Guercio's study of the life-and-work model for the understanding of art is impressively comprehensive, deeply researched, and judiciously argued. It probes the significance of relatively obscure but notable artistic biographies as well as the most celebrated ones. Guercio succeeds in relating modes of biography to the cultural values of their particular historical moment, linking artists to the accounts constructed for their careers, and hence to a social context. --Richard Shiff, Department of Art and Art History, The University of Texas at Austin

An impressively wide-ranging analysis of the monograph from its Renaissance antecedents to the present. Ann Compton The Art Book Independent, passionate, and unexpected. Christopher S. Wood Artforum [M]arvelously original, unbeholden to the doxa, [and] unmarred by academic posturing... [It] hints at what art and art history might be able to contribute to a new and still-undeveloped philosophy of experience. Christopher S. Wood Artforum

An impressively wide-ranging analysis of the monograph from its Renaissance antecedents to the present. * The Art Book * Independent, passionate, and unexpected. * Artforum *

Charles Harrison was there at the beginning and is our best guide to Conceptual Art's critique of modern representation. Conceptual Art and Painting offers a rare mix of incisive, rigorous thinking and impassioned, poetic writing--all applied to questions every other critic ought to be considering. --Richard Shiff, Department of Art and Art History, The University of Texas at Austin An impressively wide-ranging analysis of the monograph from its Renaissance antecedents to the present. Ann Compton The Art Book Independent, passionate, and unexpected. Christopher S. Wood Artforum [M]arvelously original, unbeholden to the doxa, [and] unmarred by academic posturing... [It] hints at what art and art history might be able to contribute to a new and still-undeveloped philosophy of experience. Christopher S. Wood Artforum

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Gabriele Guercio is an independent writer living in Milan. He has lectured at the Universities of Rome and Naples and has been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery and a recipient of a J. P. Getty Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Art and the Humanities. He is the author of Art as Existence: The Artist's Monograph and Its Project and the editor of a volume of Joseph Kosuth's writings, Art After Philosophy and After (both published by the MIT Press).

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