By retracing the history of three colossal candelabras made by Piranesi (1720–78) from fragments of ancient Roman sculptures, Caroline van Eck introduces us to the complicated journey of art objects from their production to their reception, and tests the effectiveness of anthropological methods by isolating what relates to the commodification of art objects and their singularization.
Caroline van Eck is Professor of Art History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. Publications include Classical Rhetoric and the Arts in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2007) and Art, Agency and Living Presence. From the Animated Image to the Excessive Object (Walter De Gruyter/Leiden University Press, 2015). In 2016, she received the Grand Prix du Rayonnement de la Littérature et Culture Françaises, awarded by the Académie Française.
Original title: Piranesi's Candelabra and the Presence of the Past, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023.
2026 (publication expected by 1st quarter)
French edition
17 x 24 cm (softcover)
280 pages (ill.)
ISBN : 978-2-37896-493-1
EAN : 9782378964931
forthcoming
