Author: Roger CollinsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Charles Meryon
Author: Roger CollinsThe Etchings of Charles Méryon
Author: Charles MéryonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Etching, French
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
The Etchings of Charles Meryon
Author: Charles MéryonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drawing, French
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Gorey's Worlds
Author: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of ArtPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 069117704X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
"Published on the occasion of the exhibition Gorey's Worlds, organized by the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art."
Moving Pictures
Author: Anne HollanderPublisher: Anne Hollander
ISBN: 9780394574004
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Hollander explores the premise that paintings, prints, and movies move us similarly by virtue of their narrative element, which evokes our memories and feelings. She argues that we respond to the depiction of glimpses of human life, to the realization that we cannot see everything at once, and how the rendering of light and spatial composition translates them and keeps them moving into our awareness. Thus there is a continuum from the paintings and graphic arts of 15th century northern Europe to the "proto-cinematic arts" of the present. ISBN 0-394-57400-1: $29.95.
Scapeland
Author: Gillian B. PiercePublisher: Brill
ISBN: 9401208697
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
Scapeland: Writing the Landscape from Diderot’s Salons to the Postmodern Museum is a comparative, interdisciplinary study tracing theories of the sublime and a history of spectatorship from Diderot’s eighteenth-century French Salons, through art criticism by Baudelaire and Breton, to Jean-François Lyotard’s postmodern exhibition Les Immatériaux. In the Salons, an exploration of the painted landscape becomes an encounter with both the limits of representation and the infinite possibilities of fiction. Baudelaire and Breton explore similar limits in their work, set against the backdrop of the modern city. For them, as for Diderot, the attempt to render visual objects in narrative language leads to the development of new literary forms and concerns. Lyotard’s concept of the “postmodern museum” frames the sublime encounter, once again, in terms that expressly evoke Diderot’s verbal rendering of painted spaces as a personal promenade. According to Lyotard, Diderot “ouvre, par écrit, les surfaces des tableaux comme les portes d’une exposition.. . . [il] abolit . . . l’opposition de la nature et de la culture, de la réalité de l’image, du volume et de la surface.” Reading the literary production of these four writers alongside their art criticism, Scapeland considers narrative responses to art as imaginative assertions of human presence against the impersonal world of objects.
The Sleep of Reason
Author: Frances S. ConnellyPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271041834
Category : Aesthetics, European
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Pioneer Photographers of the Far West
Author: Peter E. PalmquistPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804738835
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
This extraordinarily comprehensive, well-documented, biographical dictionary of some 1,500 photographers (and workers engaged in photographically related pursuits) active in western North America before 1865 is enriched by some 250 illustrations. Far from being simply a reference tool, the book provides a rich trove of fascinating narratives that cover both the professional and personal lives of a colorful cast of characters.
The Eye of the Artist
Author: Michael F. MarmorPublisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Where medical science and artistic philosophy meet, you will find The Eye of the Artist. It offers a collection of essays and artworks that show the constraints which human vision places upon artistic creation - and the triumph of artistic talent over human vulnerability.
Prints & People
Author: Alpheus Hyatt MayorPublisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870991086
Category : Art and society
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
Discusses the significance and history of printmaking and evaluates 700 prints.