Guercio's study of the life-and-work model for the understanding of art is impressively comprehensive deeply researched and judiciously argued. It probes the significance of relatively obscure but notable artistic biographies as well as the most celebrated ones. Guercio succeeds in relating modes of biography to the cultural values of their particular historical moment linking artists to the accounts constructed for their careers and hence to a social context. -- Richard Shiff, Department of Art and Art History, The University of Texas at Austin
Gabriele Guercio is an independent writer living in Milan. He has lectured at the Universities of Rome and Naples and has been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery and a recipient of a J. P. Getty Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Art and the Humanities. He is the author of Art as Existence: The Artist's Monograph and Its Project and the editor of a volume of Joseph Kosuth's writings, Art After Philosophy and After (both published by the MIT Press).
An impressively wide-ranging analysis of the monograph from its
Renaissance antecedents to the present.—The Art Book
Independent, passionate, and unexpected.—Artforum
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