{"product_id":"9781526186140","title":"Pier Paolo Pasolini for Art History and Practice : Aesthetics and Politics by Ara Merjian","description":"Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) remains best known for his influential cinematic and literary works.  These attest in turn to a crucial early formation: Pasolini's intermittent practice as a painter, critic, and historian of art.  Spanning the fifth-century BCE to the early twenty-first century, this volume's chapters reflect the breadth of Pasolini's aesthetic commitments and predilections, from Greek Attic vase painting to the to the spread of Caravaggism; from folkloric ethnography to the painting of Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol.  Alongside essays examining his influence on twentieth- and twenty-first century aesthetics, artists of different nationality, gender, and generation address Pasolini's continued consequence for their own work.  The very notion of a politically engaged artistic practice owes a debt to Pasolini's oeuvre - one he called \"extravagantly interdisciplinary,\" and which finds incisive reflection in the media, methods, and subjects addressed in these pages. -- .\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56368968892789,"sku":"9781526186140","price":95.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781526186140","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}