Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1955
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1238
Book Description
Courbet's Realism
Author: Michael FriedPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226262154
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
"'This book,' Michael Fried's work opens, 'was written not so much chapter by chapter as painting by painting over a span of roughly ten years.' Courbet's Realism is a magnificent work and its very first sentence brings us up against the qualities of mind of its author, qualities that make it as impressive as it is. It allows us to reconstruct the keen eye, the commitment to perception, the gift of rapt concentration, the conviction that great paintings are not necessarily understood easily, and the further conviction that a great painter deserves to get from us as good as he gives. By drawing on these qualities, Fried achieves something out of reach for all but a handful of his colleagues. In his writing, art history takes on some of the character of art itself. It is driven by the same stubborn resolve to open our eyes."—Richard Wollheim, San Francisco Review of Books Courbet's Realism is clearly a major contribution to the highly active field of Courbet studies. . . . But to contribute here and now is necessarily also to contribute to central debates about art history itself, and so the book is also—I hesitate to say 'more importantly,' because of the way object and method are woven together in it—a major contribution to current attempts to rethink the foundations and objects of art history. . . . It will not be an easy book to come to terms with; for all its engagement with contemporary literary theory and related developments, it is not an application of anything, and its deeply thought-through arguments will not fall easily in line with the emerging shapes of the various 'new art histories' that tap many of the same theoretical resources. At this moment, there may be nothing more valuable than such a work."—Stephen Melville, Art History
The Rise of Heritage
Author: Astrid SwensonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521117623
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
A richly illustrated book exploring the origins of the modern fascination for heritage, comparing preservation in France, Germany and England.
Arabic Astronomical and Astrological Sciences in Latin Translation
Author: Francis J. CarmodyPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520345401
Category : Science
Languages : la
Pages : 200
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1955.
Pierre Bonnard, the Graphic Art
Author: Pierre BonnardPublisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0810931001
Category : Grabados en color franceses
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Tentoonstellingscatalogus. Met bibliografie en register.
Rare Posters
Author: Jack RennertPublisher:
ISBN: 9781929530427
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 0
Book Description
Vente du 6 mai 2012 proposant un large éventail d'affiches internationales sur des thèmatiques variées : automobile, aviation, tennis...
Extremities
Author: Darcy Grimaldo GrigsbyPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300088878
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
In the decades following the French Revolution, four artists - Girodet, Gros, Gericault, and Delacroix - painted works in their Parisian studios that vividly expressed violent events in faraway, colonial lands. This book examines six of these paintings and argues that their disturbing, erotic depictions of slavery, revolt, plague, decapitation, cannibalism, massacre, and abduction chart the history of France's empire and colonial politics. Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby shows that these paintings about occurrences in the West Indies, Syria, Egypt, Senegal, and Ottoman Empire Greece are preoccupied not with mastery and control but with loss, degradation, and failure, and she explains how such representations of crises in the colonies were able to answer the artists' longings as well as the needs of the government and the opposition parties at home. Empire made painters devoted to the representation of liberty and the new French nation confront liberty's antithesis: slavery. It also forced them to contend with cultural and racial difference. Young male artists responded, says Grigsby, by translating distant crises into images of challenges to the self, making history painting the site where geographic extremities and bodily extremities articulated one another.
Icons - Texts - Iconotexts
Author: Peter WagnerPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110882590
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Gustave Courbet
Author: Georges RiatPublisher: Parkstone Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Child of materialism and positivism, Courbet was without a doubt one of the most complex painters of the nineteenth century. Symbolising the rejection of traditions, Courbet did not hesitate to confront the public with the truth by liberating painting of conventional rules. He became from then on the leader of pictorial realism.