Mexico Citybased artist Francis Alys (b. 1959) has assembled a group of paintings depicting Saint Fabiola, a 4th-century saint who gave up all earthly possessions and devoted herself to the practice of Christian asceticism. All of the pictures in the collection are based on an original worknow lostby the 19th-century French artist Jean-Jacques Henner. Alys's collection of Fabiola portraits, numbering in the hundreds and painted by amateurs and professionals alike, is the focus of this intriguing book. Not only does it ...
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Mexico Citybased artist Francis Alys (b. 1959) has assembled a group of paintings depicting Saint Fabiola, a 4th-century saint who gave up all earthly possessions and devoted herself to the practice of Christian asceticism. All of the pictures in the collection are based on an original worknow lostby the 19th-century French artist Jean-Jacques Henner. Alys's collection of Fabiola portraits, numbering in the hundreds and painted by amateurs and professionals alike, is the focus of this intriguing book. Not only does it examine the artist s exploration of collecting practices, but the publication also offers an unusual window into aesthetic, sociological, and anthropological values of the past century.In addition to cataloguing each of the "Fabiola" works, the book includes Saint Jerome s eulogy for Fabiola (the primary source for Fabiola s biography), followed by an interpretive text on evolving hagiographies and saints "vitae, " an analysis of the role of iconographic imagery in the practice of Catholicism, and art historical essays that focus on Alys s practice."
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VG: Exlibrary book with a stamp on the front and back free end pages, and a sticker on the back free end page. The book is in excellent condition. It has clean pages and tight binding. Looks like it has rarely been taken from the shelf. A casebound hardcover with a black fabric spine featuring silver debossed lettering, and a color-illustrated front and back cover. The front and back free and pasted end pages are also color illustrations. The headband is red and yellow. Pages: (6), 7-90, (Unnumbered, ~64). Profusely filled with both color and black-and-white images. Published on the occasion of an exhibition organized by Dia Art Foundation, New York. Preface and acknowledgments / by Jeffrey Weiss--Finding Fabiola / by David Morgan--Beyond Fabiola: Henner in and out of his nineteenth-century context / by Stephen Bann--Painting Fabiola: the hagiographer as literary artist / by Susan Laningham--Consumption as production / by Martha Buskirk--Francis Alys: instigator/investigator / by Lynne Cooke--Letter LXXVII, To Oceanus on the death of Fabiola / by Saint Jerome--Catalogue of works.
