Author: Fernand LégerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Leger's Le Grand Déjeuner
Author: Fernand LégerLéger's Le Grand Déjeuner
Author: Fernand LégerFrom Millet to Léger
Author: Robert L. HerbertPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300097061
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
In a preface prepared for this volume, Herbert explains that these essays are linked by a focus on the relation of art to the urban-industrial revolution."--BOOK JACKET.
Fernand Léger
Author: Fernand LégerPublisher: The Museum of Modern Art
ISBN: 9780870700521
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Fernand Leger (1881-1955) is the only modern artist to choose modernity itself as his subject. From his early series Contrastes de formes (1913-14), the first fully abstract works to emerge from Cubism, through his last realistic paintings of construction workers from the early 1950s, Leger's lifelong subject was the pulse and dynamism of contemporary life.
Modern Art Despite Modernism
Author: Robert StorrPublisher:
ISBN: 9780870700316
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
Essay by Robert Storr. Foreword by Glenn D. Lowry.
Renoir in the Barnes Foundation
Author: Barnes FoundationPublisher:
ISBN: 9780300151008
Category : Painting
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A spectacular survey of the world's most comprehensive collection of works by the Impressionist master Renoir The Barnes Foundation is home to the world's largest collection of paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919). Dr. Albert C. Barnes, a Philadelphia scientist who made his fortune in pharmaceuticals, established the Foundation in 1922 in Merion, Pennsylvania, as an educational institution devoted to the appreciation of the fine arts. A passionate supporter of European modernism, Barnes built a collection that was virtually unrivaled, with massive holdings by Paul Cézanne, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso. But it was Renoir that Barnes admired above all other artists; he thought of him as a god and collected his work tenaciously, amassing 181 works by the painter between 1912 and 1942. All of these Renoirs are included in this lavishly illustrated book. Renoir in the Barnes Foundation tells the fascinating story of Barnes's obsession with the Impressionist master's late works, while offering illuminating new scholarship on the works themselves. Authors Martha Lucy and John House look closely at the key paintings in the collection, placing them in the wider contexts of contemporary artistic, aesthetic, and theoretical debates. The first volume to publish the entirety of Barnes's astonishing Renoir collection, Renoir in the Barnes Foundation is also an engaging study of the artist's critical--and often contested--role in the development of modern art. Published in association with the Barnes Foundation
Artistic Circles
Author: Susie HodgePublisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA
ISBN: 0711276595
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Discover the fascinating connections between the world's greatest artists. Artistic Circles introduces some of the most inspirational stories of friendship, love, creativity and shared passions in the world of art. Whether through teaching, as in the case of Paul Klee and Anni Albers; a mutual muse, as seen in the flowers of Georgia O’Keeffe and Takashi Murakami; or an inspirational romantic coupling like that of Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock. In telling the tales of these creatives lives and achievements – each extraordinary and oftentimes ground-breaking – Susie Hodge exposes the fascinating web of connections that have fostered some of the world’s art masterpieces. Some are well-known, whereas others span both time and place, linking pioneers in art in fascinating and unexpected ways. Illustrated in colourful tribute to each artists’ unique style, Artistic Circles is an illuminating and celebratory account of some of the art world’s most compelling visionaries. A perfect introduction for students, and a source of new and surprising stories for art lovers.
Modern Art in Your Life
Author: Robert GoldwaterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
The Memory of Tiresias
Author: Mikhail IampolskiPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520914728
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
The concept of intertextuality has proven of inestimable value in recent attempts to understand the nature of literature and its relation to other systems of cultural meaning. In The Memory of Tiresias, Mikhail Iamposlki presents the first sustained attempt to develop a theory of cinematic intertextuality. Building on the insights of semiotics and contemporary film theory, Iampolski defines cinema as a chain of transparent, mimetic fragments intermixed with quotations he calls "textual anomalies." These challenge the normalization of meaning and seek to open reading out onto the unlimited field of cultural history, which is understood in texts as a semiotically active extract, already inscribed. Quotations obstruct mimesis and are consequently transformed in the process of semiosis, an operation that Iampolski defines as reading in an aura of enigma. In a series of brilliant analyses of films by D.W. Griffith, Sergei Eisenstein, and Luis Buñuel, he presents different strategies of intertextual reading in their work. His book suggests the continuing centrality of semiotic analysis and is certain to interest film historians and theorists, as well as readers in cultural and literary studies.
Leger
Author: Robert L. DelevoyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, Abstract
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description