Between life and the art that imitates it is a vague, more shadowy category: images that exist autonomously. Pygmalion's mythical sculpture, which magnanimous gods endowed with life after he fell in love with it, marks perhaps the first such instance in Western art history of an image that exists on its own terms, rather than simply imitating something (or someone) else. In "The Pygmalion Effect", Victor I. Stoichita delivers this living image - as well as its many avatars over the centuries - from the long shadow cast by art that merely replicates reality.Stoichita traces the reverberations of Ovid's founding myth from ancient times through the advent of cinema. Emphasizing its erotic origins, he locates echoes of this famous fable in everything from legendary incarnations of Helen of Troy to surrealist painting to photographs of both sculpture and people artfully posed to simulate statues. But it was only with the invention of moving pictures, Stoichita argues, that the modern age found a fitting embodiment of the Pygmalion story's influence. Concluding with an analysis of Alfred Hitchcock films that focuses on Kim Novak's double persona in Vertigo, "The Pygmalion Effect" illuminates the fluctuating connections that link aesthetics, magic, and technical skill. In the process, it sheds new light on a mysterious world of living artifacts that, until now, has occupied a dark and little-understood realm in the history of Western image making.
1 有用 Barroquería 2022-04-17 03:17:45
第一章写the materiality of ivory & the phenomenology of the flesh太好了
2 有用 𝑾𝒂𝒍𝒅𝒆𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒂𝒎𝒌𝒆𝒊𝒕 2023-07-11 12:59:10 江苏
斯托伊奇塔的细读功底和理论想象力真是了得。最具启发性的两处:第一章写奥维德神话的材质叙事学和肉身现象学、第五章写吉罗代绘画的“电磁神学”。
1 有用 felsina 2025-05-08 11:15:11 加拿大
本书可算作Stoichita对贝尔廷图像人类学的一个系统回应,也是八十年代学科转型以来欧洲艺术史内部出现的一种最为灵动的新写作范式(但也可能是在打开参照系之前的某个终点),最大的缺失当然是“性别”,但也很大程度上体现出作者处理各种跨历史跨门类素材的游刃有余。每个章节都很好看,但个人觉得最有趣的是S在处理图像和身体的关系时开始系统性的关注生理学和医学观念,也因此对自己来说最眼前一亮的是启蒙时期那章里... 本书可算作Stoichita对贝尔廷图像人类学的一个系统回应,也是八十年代学科转型以来欧洲艺术史内部出现的一种最为灵动的新写作范式(但也可能是在打开参照系之前的某个终点),最大的缺失当然是“性别”,但也很大程度上体现出作者处理各种跨历史跨门类素材的游刃有余。每个章节都很好看,但个人觉得最有趣的是S在处理图像和身体的关系时开始系统性的关注生理学和医学观念,也因此对自己来说最眼前一亮的是启蒙时期那章里关于animation和神经学、磁力等的讨论。 (展开)
1 有用 Eco 2024-02-25 08:41:21 山东
一部晚期资本主义图像世界的"史前史"
0 有用 一汪清泓 2020-06-25 23:09:22
一如既往地活用材料,让人惊叹地叙述,所以说艺术史真的不能局限于艺术史中。