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"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 *
"Clever and erudite…. David Young Kim invites his reader into the deeper recesses of Renaissance art-making and provides profound multilayered insights into an oft-neglected subject. The book is an intellectual tour de force. - Elizabeth Lisot-Nelson, Comptes Rendus"

Groundwork

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      Publisher Princeton University Press
      Published 18 October 2022
      ISBN-13 9780691231174
      978-0691231174
      ISBN-10 0691231176
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      Paintings and painting

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review
      "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 *
      "Clever and erudite…. David Young Kim invites his reader into the deeper recesses of Renaissance art-making and provides profound multilayered insights into an oft-neglected subject. The book is an intellectual tour de force. - Elizabeth Lisot-Nelson, Comptes Rendus"

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