Author: Claire d'Harcourt
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN: 9781616894214
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This sequel to the best-selling Masterpieces Up Close is another fun, interactive book that introduces works of art from museums around the world across different eras and styles, including an ancient Egyptian papyrus, a Byzantine mosaic, Renaissance frescoes, a medieval European tapestry, Arabic and Aztec manuscripts, Japanese woodblock prints, and impressionist, surrealist, and cubist paintings. Full-color reproductions of twenty-three famous works of art provide a colorful hunting ground for over two hundred close-up details. Lift-the-flap keys at the end of the book provide intriguing facts about the works and the artists who created them. Young readers will learn how artistic expression has developed through the centuries and discover how looking at familiar images up close reveals new insights into the world of art.
Art Up Close
Author: Claire d'Harcourt
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN: 9781616894214
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This sequel to the best-selling Masterpieces Up Close is another fun, interactive book that introduces works of art from museums around the world across different eras and styles, including an ancient Egyptian papyrus, a Byzantine mosaic, Renaissance frescoes, a medieval European tapestry, Arabic and Aztec manuscripts, Japanese woodblock prints, and impressionist, surrealist, and cubist paintings. Full-color reproductions of twenty-three famous works of art provide a colorful hunting ground for over two hundred close-up details. Lift-the-flap keys at the end of the book provide intriguing facts about the works and the artists who created them. Young readers will learn how artistic expression has developed through the centuries and discover how looking at familiar images up close reveals new insights into the world of art.
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN: 9781616894214
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This sequel to the best-selling Masterpieces Up Close is another fun, interactive book that introduces works of art from museums around the world across different eras and styles, including an ancient Egyptian papyrus, a Byzantine mosaic, Renaissance frescoes, a medieval European tapestry, Arabic and Aztec manuscripts, Japanese woodblock prints, and impressionist, surrealist, and cubist paintings. Full-color reproductions of twenty-three famous works of art provide a colorful hunting ground for over two hundred close-up details. Lift-the-flap keys at the end of the book provide intriguing facts about the works and the artists who created them. Young readers will learn how artistic expression has developed through the centuries and discover how looking at familiar images up close reveals new insights into the world of art.
Iconotropy and Cult Images from the Ancient to Modern World
Author: Jorge Tomás García
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000574210
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
The book examines the process of symbolic and material alteration of religious images in antiquity, the middle ages and the modern period. The process by which the form and meaning of images are modified and adapted for a new context is defined by a large number of spiritual, religious, artistic, geographical or historical circumstances. This book provides a defined theoretical framework for these symbolic and material alterations based on the concept of iconotropy; that is, the way in which images change and/or alter their meaning. Iconotropy is a key concept in religious history, particularly for periods in which religious changes, often turbulent, took place. In addition, the iconotropic process of appropriating cult images brought with it changes in the materiality of those images. Numerous accounts from antiquity, the middle ages and the modern period detail how cult images were involved in such processes of misinterpretation, both symbolically and materially. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual culture and religious history.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000574210
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
The book examines the process of symbolic and material alteration of religious images in antiquity, the middle ages and the modern period. The process by which the form and meaning of images are modified and adapted for a new context is defined by a large number of spiritual, religious, artistic, geographical or historical circumstances. This book provides a defined theoretical framework for these symbolic and material alterations based on the concept of iconotropy; that is, the way in which images change and/or alter their meaning. Iconotropy is a key concept in religious history, particularly for periods in which religious changes, often turbulent, took place. In addition, the iconotropic process of appropriating cult images brought with it changes in the materiality of those images. Numerous accounts from antiquity, the middle ages and the modern period detail how cult images were involved in such processes of misinterpretation, both symbolically and materially. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual culture and religious history.
Canons and Values
Author: Larry Silver
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 1606065971
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
A critical rethinking of the way canons are defined, constructed, dismantled, and revised. A century ago, all art was evaluated through the lens of European classicism and its tradition. This volume explores and questions the foundations of the European canon, offers a critical rethinking of ancient and classical art, and interrogates the canons of cultures and regions that have often been left at the margins of art history. It underscores the historical and geographical diversity of canons and the local values underlying them. Twelve international scholars consider how canons are constructed and contested, focusing on the relationship between canonical objects and the value systems that shape their hierarchies. Deploying an array of methodologies—including archaeological investigations, visual analysis, and literary critique—the authors examine canon formation throughout the world, including Africa, India, East Asia, Mesoamerica, South America, ancient Egypt, classical Greece, and Europe. Global studies of art, which are dismantling the traditionally Eurocentric canon, promise to make art history more inclusive. But enduring canons cannot be dismissed. This volume raises new questions about the importance of canons—including those from outside Europe—for the wider discipline of art history.
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 1606065971
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
A critical rethinking of the way canons are defined, constructed, dismantled, and revised. A century ago, all art was evaluated through the lens of European classicism and its tradition. This volume explores and questions the foundations of the European canon, offers a critical rethinking of ancient and classical art, and interrogates the canons of cultures and regions that have often been left at the margins of art history. It underscores the historical and geographical diversity of canons and the local values underlying them. Twelve international scholars consider how canons are constructed and contested, focusing on the relationship between canonical objects and the value systems that shape their hierarchies. Deploying an array of methodologies—including archaeological investigations, visual analysis, and literary critique—the authors examine canon formation throughout the world, including Africa, India, East Asia, Mesoamerica, South America, ancient Egypt, classical Greece, and Europe. Global studies of art, which are dismantling the traditionally Eurocentric canon, promise to make art history more inclusive. But enduring canons cannot be dismissed. This volume raises new questions about the importance of canons—including those from outside Europe—for the wider discipline of art history.
The Dictionary of Art
Ancient and Modern
Author: William Eggleston
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
ISBN: 9780224069632
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 167
Book Description
The appreciation of Eggleston's work has come a long way since his pioneering 1976 exhibition, William Eggleston's Guide, at New York's Museum of Modern Art. He has been called the 'father of colour photography' and since the 1990s he is widely regarded as the leading and most influential colour photographer of the twentieth century. Ancient and Modern is a collection of photographs chosen from Eggleston's earliest photographs taken in the American South, Africa and England. The photographs depict subjects and objects from everyday life and it is Eggleston's unique ability to find beauty, and striking displays of colour, in ordinary scenes. Mark Holborn, in his illuminating introduction, writes about the dark undercurrent of these mundane scenes as viewed through Eggleston's lens: '[Eggleston's] subjects are, on the surface, the ordinary inhabitants and environs of suburban Memphis and Mississippi - friends, family, barbecues, back yards, a tricycle and the clutter of the mundane. The normality of these subjects is deceptive, for behind the images there is a sense of lurking danger.'
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
ISBN: 9780224069632
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 167
Book Description
The appreciation of Eggleston's work has come a long way since his pioneering 1976 exhibition, William Eggleston's Guide, at New York's Museum of Modern Art. He has been called the 'father of colour photography' and since the 1990s he is widely regarded as the leading and most influential colour photographer of the twentieth century. Ancient and Modern is a collection of photographs chosen from Eggleston's earliest photographs taken in the American South, Africa and England. The photographs depict subjects and objects from everyday life and it is Eggleston's unique ability to find beauty, and striking displays of colour, in ordinary scenes. Mark Holborn, in his illuminating introduction, writes about the dark undercurrent of these mundane scenes as viewed through Eggleston's lens: '[Eggleston's] subjects are, on the surface, the ordinary inhabitants and environs of suburban Memphis and Mississippi - friends, family, barbecues, back yards, a tricycle and the clutter of the mundane. The normality of these subjects is deceptive, for behind the images there is a sense of lurking danger.'
Jewelry, Ancient to Modern
Author: Walters Art Gallery (Baltimore, Md.)
Publisher: Penguin Putnam
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
"Written by a team of the Gallery's own curators and visiting experts, Jewelry -- Ancient to Modern describes more than 700 pieces in special sections devoted to the Ancient near East, Egypt, Etruria, Greece, South Russia (Olbia), the Roman Empire, the nomadic tribes of the Migration Period, the Byzantine Empire, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries."--Page 2 of cover.
Publisher: Penguin Putnam
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
"Written by a team of the Gallery's own curators and visiting experts, Jewelry -- Ancient to Modern describes more than 700 pieces in special sections devoted to the Ancient near East, Egypt, Etruria, Greece, South Russia (Olbia), the Roman Empire, the nomadic tribes of the Migration Period, the Byzantine Empire, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries."--Page 2 of cover.
Pre-Columbian Art and the Post-Columbian World
Author: Barbara Braun
Publisher: Abradale Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Offers an in-depth look at pre-Columbian sources of modern art.
Publisher: Abradale Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Offers an in-depth look at pre-Columbian sources of modern art.
Art Prices Current
Compass in Hand
Author: Christian Rattemeyer
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art
ISBN: 9780870707452
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
This collection of drawings was acquired by MOMA in 2005, and it as an extraordinary collection of over 2,500 works on paper. This exhibition presents over 300 of these works and includes a number of works that use collage, assemblage, appropriation and montage.
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art
ISBN: 9780870707452
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
This collection of drawings was acquired by MOMA in 2005, and it as an extraordinary collection of over 2,500 works on paper. This exhibition presents over 300 of these works and includes a number of works that use collage, assemblage, appropriation and montage.
The Modern Art of Figure Drawing - And Pinups
Author: Derek K. Matters
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781523885213
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
The Art of Figure Drawing & Pin-ups The Modern Art of Figure Drawing is meant to be enjoyed by anyone with a passion for the human figure. See a series of mixed digital and traditional drawings and paintings and view the steps taken to get them there. With more than 150 original drawings including sketches and step by step visual breakdowns of his process, this book is sure to spark the creative process of both beginners, professionals and casual art admirers. The Modern Art of Figure Drawing is meant to be enjoyed by anyone with a passion for the human figure. Pinup drawings and examples of how to draw human anatomy See a series of mixed digital / traditional drawings and paintings and view the steps taken to get them there. Step by step visual examples of how to draw Over 150 Original beautiful figure drawings and sketches Can be used as an adult coloring book Lots of artistic nude drawings Sure to spark the creative process of beginners, professionals and casual art admirers."
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781523885213
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
The Art of Figure Drawing & Pin-ups The Modern Art of Figure Drawing is meant to be enjoyed by anyone with a passion for the human figure. See a series of mixed digital and traditional drawings and paintings and view the steps taken to get them there. With more than 150 original drawings including sketches and step by step visual breakdowns of his process, this book is sure to spark the creative process of both beginners, professionals and casual art admirers. The Modern Art of Figure Drawing is meant to be enjoyed by anyone with a passion for the human figure. Pinup drawings and examples of how to draw human anatomy See a series of mixed digital / traditional drawings and paintings and view the steps taken to get them there. Step by step visual examples of how to draw Over 150 Original beautiful figure drawings and sketches Can be used as an adult coloring book Lots of artistic nude drawings Sure to spark the creative process of beginners, professionals and casual art admirers."