David Young Kim is associate professor of art history at the University of Pennsylvania and a visiting lecturer at the University of Zurich. He is the author of The Traveling Artist in the Italian Renaissance: Geography, Mobility, and Style and the editor of Matters of Weight: Force, Gravity, and Aesthetics in the Early Modern Period.
"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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