Western Painting Today
Author: Royal B. Hassrick
Publisher: New York : Watson-Guptill Publications
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 184
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Royal B. Hassrick
Publisher: New York : Watson-Guptill Publications
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 184
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Robert Byron
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-12-17
Total Pages: 446
ISBN-13: 1136752404
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First published in 1930, this book deals with Byzantine art, not as an isolated province, but as one intimately connected with the subsequent history of European painting. After a summary of the whole question in its relation to modern art, the second chapter opens with a novel analysis of the iconoclast controversy, and shows how it was only by this movement that Hellenistic naturalism was finally vanquished and the seed of interpretational art planted in Europe in its stead. The third chapter reveals how this seed was nourished by the Constantinopolitan Renascence, and how that event, combined with the increasing humanisation of religious emotion, culminated, not only in Duccio and Giotto, but in the equally important work of their contemporaries at Mistra and Mount Athos. A detailed account of these works is given and in the last part of the book, the mystery of El Greco is finally resolved. The book is based, not only on extensive research but on personal observation of nearly all the works mentioned, in Constantinople, Greece, Crete, Italy, and Spain. It is an important and exciting addition to the history of European Art and establishes, scientifically, theories which only existed in conjecture before its publication. The book includes 94 black and white plates.
Author: Roberto Carvalho de Magalhães
Publisher: McRae Books
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 976
ISBN-13: 9788889272312
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Michael Sullivan
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780520212367
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The exchange of art provides a vehicle for creative interaction between East and West, a process in which great civilizations preserve their own character while stimulating and enriching each other. Here scholar Michael Sullivan leads the reader through four centuries of exciting interaction between the artists of China and Japan and those of Western Europe. 24 color plates. 174 halftones.
Author: Claire d'Harcourt
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Published: 2016-01-05
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781616894146
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Masterpieces Up Close is back in print! Once again readers can explore great works of art from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century in exquisite large-format detail. Captioned, full-color reproductions of more than twenty paintings provide informative and challenging treasure hunts involving more than one-hundred close-up details. Don't worry, if you can't find one of them, lift-the-flap copies of each painting can be found in the back of the book highlighting each detail. Brief biographical sketches offer information about the artists.
Author: Jamie Camplin
Publisher: Getty Publications
Published: 2018-10-02
Total Pages: 14
ISBN-13: 1606065866
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →“Why do artists love books?” This volume takes this tantalizingly simple question as a starting point to reveal centuries of symbiosis between the visual and literary arts. First looking at the development of printed books and the simultaneous emergence of the modern figure of the artist, The Art of Reading appraises works by the many great masters who took inspiration from the printed word. Authors Jamie Camplin and Maria Ranauro weave together an engaging cultural history that probes the ways in which books and paintings represent a key to understanding ourselves and the past. Paintings contain a world of information about religion, class, gender, and power, but they also reveal details of everyday life often lost in history texts. Such artworks show us not only how books have been valued over time but also how the practice of reading has evolved in Western society. Featuring over one hundred works by artists from across Europe and the United States and all painting genres, The Art of Reading explores the two-thousand-year story of the great painters and the preeminent information-providing, knowledge-endowing, solace-giving, belief-supporting, leisure-enriching, pleasure-delivering medium of all time: the book.
Author: Bruce Cole
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1991-12-15
Total Pages: 374
ISBN-13: 0671747282
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →With fresh insight into what the great works meant when they were created and why they appeal to us now, here is a vivid tour of painting, sculpture, and architecture, past and present. "Illuminating . . . a notable accomplishment".--The New York Times. Illustrated.
Author: Timothy Verdon
Publisher: Hudson Hills
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780971298194
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This timely publication ponders the presence of Mary, the Mother of Jesus, in art, and seeks to evoke the affective rationale underlying Mary's centuries old fascination.
Author: Thomas Hoving
Publisher: Artisan Publishers
Published: 1997-01
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9781885183538
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York chooses the 111 works of art--culled from the entire history of Western civilization--that have influenced him most, reproduced in full-color and complemented by his interpretations. Tour.
Author: David Bindman
Publisher: Belknap Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780674052635
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Presents a collection of art that showcases visual tropes of masters with their adoring slaves and Africans as victims and individuals.