{"product_id":"9781526186140","title":"Pier Paolo Pasolini for art history and practice","description":"Author: Ara Merjian\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781526186140\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Manchester University Press\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 25 Mar 2026\u003cbr\u003ePages: 504 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePier 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47920564600990,"sku":"ING-9781526186140","price":217.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781526186140.jpg?v=1782824079","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781526186140","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}