{"product_id":"pissing-figures","title":"Pissing Figures","description":"Lebensztejn is one of France's best - kept secrets. A world - class art historian who has  lectured and taught at major universities in the United States, his work has remained  almost entirely in French, his American audience limited to a sma ll but dedicated group  of cognoscenti.  First introducing the  Manneken Pis - the iconic little boy whose stream of urine supplies  water to this famous fountain and is also the logo for a Belgian beer company - the  author takes the reader through a semi - scatological maze of cultural history. The earliest  example is a fresco scene loc ated directly above Cimabue's  Crucifixion from around 1280  at the Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi, in which Lebensztejn's careful eye locates an  angel behind a pillar urinating through a hole in his garment. He continues to navigate  expertly through cu ltural twists and turns, stopping to discuss Pier Paolo Pasolini's 1968  film  Teorema , for example, and Marlene Dumas's 1996 - 1997 homage to Rembrandt's  pissing woman. At every moment, Lebensztejn's prose is lively, his thinking dynamic, and  his subject matt er entertaining.  In this short and poignant cultural history, readers will not  only find the care for detail that has made Lebensztejn into one of the greatest European  art historians, but also the rebelliousness that makes him one of the most interesting intellectuals of our time.","brand":"David Zwirner Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42664332951588,"sku":"9781941701546","price":17.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0725\/9734\/0196\/files\/9781941701546.jpg?v=1776899436","url":"https:\/\/thamesandhudson.com.au\/products\/pissing-figures","provider":"Thames \u0026 Hudson Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}