Author: Antoine Chrysostôme Quatremère de QuincyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
The Destination of Works of Art and the Use to which They are Applied
Author: Antoine Chrysostôme Quatremère de QuincyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Illuminations
Author: Walter BenjaminPublisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
ISBN: 0805202412
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Walter Benjamin was one of the most original cultural critics of the twentieth century. Illuminations includes his views on Kafka, with whom he felt a close personal affinity; his studies on Baudelaire and Proust; and his essays on Leskov and on Brecht's Epic Theater. Also included are his penetrating study "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," an enlightening discussion of translation as a literary mode, and Benjamin's theses on the philosophy of history. Hannah Arendt selected the essays for this volume and introduces them with a classic essay about Benjamin's life in dark times. Also included is a new preface by Leon Wieseltier that explores Benjamin's continued relevance for our times.
Conservation of Easel Paintings
Author: Joyce Hill StonerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136000429
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 916
Book Description
Conservation of Easel Paintings is the first comprehensive text on the history, philosophy, and methods of treatment of easel paintings that combines both theory with practice. With contributions from an international group of experts and interviews with important artists, this volume provides an all-encompassing guide to necessary background knowledge in technical art history, artists' materials, scientific methods of examination and documentation, with sections that present varying approaches and methods for treatment, including consolidation, lining, cleaning, retouching, and varnishing. The book concludes with a section featuring issues of preventive conservation, storage, shipping, exhibition, lighting, safety issues, and public outreach. Conservation of Easel Paintings is a crucial resource in the training of conservation students and will provide generations of practicing paintings conservators and interested art historians, curators, directors, collectors, dealers, artists, and students of art and art history with invaluable information and guidance.
Metal Industry
Author: Cement and Engineering News
Author: Art-Union
Author: The Builder
Author: Aesthetics
Author: Vasily SesemannPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004357998
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
This work by Lithuania's most important philosopher Vasily Sesemann (1884-1963) is a European classic. Having been published in Lithuanian for the first time in 1970 (though written much earlier) it has now finally become accessible to an international public. Sesemann's Aesthetics is not only an extremely useful introduction to the discipline of aesthetics; it also engages in stimulating analyses of a whole range of subjects that remain of interest for the contemporary reader. Sesemann explains in a clear and systematic way almost all problems linked to aesthetic production and perception, providing inquiries into, for example, philosophical problems of space, tectonicity in architecture, and film. Sesemann's personal philosophical vision of aesthetic experience as well as of the ambiguity of aesthetic form makes this book a must for specialists in German and Eastern European interwar philosophy as well as in Russian Formalism.
The Standard American Encyclopedia of Arts, Sciences, History, Biography, Geography, Statistics, and General Knowledge ...
Author: John Clark RidpathPublisher:
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Category : Encyclopedias
Languages : en
Pages : 478
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