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A tour de force analysis. ---Yve-Alain Bois, Artforum

"""An Apollo Book of the Year"" ""A tour de force analysis.""---Yve-Alain Bois, Artforum ""A splendidly expansive work that successfully unites material with metaphor. Beautifully illustrated and playful in tone, this book should be celebrated for its originality and, above all, as an invitation to ever closer looking.""---Imogen Tedbury, Apollo Magazine ""Groundwork fuses traditional formal analysis of a superior and detailed order with a provocative discussion of how the various meanings of “ground” . . . are a critical determinant of the painting’s spatial order and meaning."" * Choice * ""David Young Kim takes familiar paintings (Bellini’s Saint Francis in the Desert; Caravaggio’s Supper at Emmaus) and surprises us with new ways of looking at them. Combining intellectual ingenuity with close-looking, the book defines ‘ground’ in three ways and works out the consequences of doing so in a manner that owes as much to historical treatises as to technical study."" * Apollo Magazine *"

"""A tour de force analysis.""---Yve-Alain Bois, Artforum ""A splendidly expansive work that successfully unites material with metaphor. Beautifully illustrated and playful in tone, this book should be celebrated for its originality and, above all, as an invitation to ever closer looking.""---Imogen Tedbury, Apollo Magazine"

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David Young Kim is associate professor of art history at the University of Pennsylvania and a visiting lecturer at the University of Zurich. He is the author of The Traveling Artist in the Italian Renaissance: Geography, Mobility, and Style and the editor of Matters of Weight: Force, Gravity, and Aesthetics in the Early Modern Period.

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