
Five Doubts
1998
First Published
3.97
Average Rating
180
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Mary Caponegro's latest exploration of narrative possibilities takes as a point of departure five arresting images from Italian art and a Verrocchio painting, an Etruscan tomb, a Roman mosaic, a Renaissance manuscript and a Tombola board - five images that give rise to voices haunted by desire, doubt and death. Within these fictional meditations on Antiquity, the Renaissance, and contemporary life, she creates a tension between spirituality and materiality, between nature and culture, leveling artifice to blood and bone, as the first stage of a complex metamorphosis.
Avg Rating
3.97
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