Saint Sebastian

A Splendid Readiness For Death

The cultural-historical center of the book "Saint Sebastian. A Splendid Readiness For Death", is formed by Gabriele D’Annunzio’s "Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian. A Mystery in Five Acts". The book is similary arranged into five thematic focal points: Sebastian is seen as the "exemplary sufferer" (Susan Sontag), the multifarious icon of the history of civilisation- as-such; also as Sebastian the saint, who attracts misfortune upon himself, in order to avert it from others; Sebastian as the fetish of erotic subcultures, and the vamp and dandy, whose beauty only blossoms in its full splendour when caught in the throes of excruciating agony. However, Saint Sebastian is also brought up to date in "Saint Sebastian. A Splendid Readiness For Death" as the great ecstatician of art history.
Saint Sebastian
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Saint Sebastian

ISBN 978-3-936646-44-3

16,50 × 20,00 cm

144 pages

100 colored illustrations

Hardcover, bound, without dust jacket, without Schuber

Languages: German

Editor
Kunsthalle Wien authors Wolfgang Fetz, Richard A. Kaye, Gerald Matt und Carlo Santoli

Events
The illustrated book was published on the occasion of the exhibition "Saint Sebastian. A Splendid Readiness For Death", Kunsthalle Wien, 2003/2004.