The Leopard
Pierre Sorlin considers Visconti's treatment of the 19th-century Italian nobility caught up in the Risorgimento
What do art critics do? Usually, they produce knowledge. By exploring the social and political, aesthetic and technical issues of concern to artists and by knitting these matters into critical readings, they provide their readers with new interpretations. However, in some instances, critics have to 'clean' the work they study of the comments surrounding it which pre- vent amateurs from seeing it as it is. Such a cleaning is, I believe, necessary in the case of The Leopard.
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