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First published in 1967, Victorian Artists documents the painting
of the Victorian period, that is, the period between the death of
Constable and William IV in 1837, the first Post-Impressionist
painting in 1910 and the end of an epoch in British painting.
Professor Bell has given special attention to some of the
pre-Raphaelite artists, and to Sickert and the Camden Town group.
These most illuminating and diverting essays, which originated as
Slade lectures at Oxford, combined with a large collection of
illustrations, make this a unique discussion of a period whose
aesthetic influence is still widely evident. This book will be of
interest to students of art and history.
In the beginning was the word, and in the Middle Ages were kings,
princes, and high-ranking religious members whose wealth and
influence produced illustrated bibles of extraordinary
craftsmanship. This edition brings together 50 of the finest
medieval bible manuscripts from the Austrian National Library. With
examples from every epoch of the Middle Ages, the collection
explores visualizations of the bible in various theological and
historical contexts. In impeccable reproduction quality, these
stunning images may be appreciated as much as art historical
treasures as they are important religious artifacts. Texts by
Andreas Fingernagel, Stephan FĆ¼ssel, Christian Gastgeber, and a
team of 15 scientific authors describe each manuscript in detail,
exploring both the evolution of the Bible and the medieval
understanding of history. A glossary of important terms is also
included so that those not versed in bible history can enjoy the
texts as well.
The book combines an extensive review of art actions, classifying
and anchoring them in contemporary urban theories. It reviews
trends and describes numerous art projects in the public space, and
is interspersed with multiple photographs, hence it may be
attractive to any reader who wishes to become involved in his
community and urban environment.
In this ground-breaking book, a theory of 'distortion' - of the way
in which the processes of human life are subject to interference,
diversion and transformation - is developed by way of the art of
one of Britain's greatest twentieth-century painters and that art's
public reception. Devoted to his native village of
Cookham-on-Thames, Stanley Spencer painted not only landscapes and
portraits with loving detail but also the 'memory-feelings' which
he felt were a 'sacred' part of his consciousness. Yet Spencer was
also a controversial public figure, with some taking the view that
his visionary paintings were ugly distortions of human life, even
marks of an immoral nature. Examining how Spencer lived his vision,
how he painted it and wrote it, and also how his attempts to
communicate that vision were received by his contemporaries and
have continued to be interpreted since his death, the author posits
distortion as key: an intrinsic aspect both of human creation and
of human interaction. What we intend to make, to say, to do and
have done, often mutates in the process of being expressed or put
into effect: we live amid distortion. Love - the affective
appreciation of one another - is then a means by which we
accommodate distortion and its consequences in our lives. An
illustration, through Stanley Spencer's story, of significant
aspects of a human condition, this book will appeal across
disciplines, including to art historians and students of Spencer's
work, as well as to scholars of anthropology with interests in
creativity, perception and interpretation.
Few other cities can compare with Rome's history of continuous
habitation, nor with the survival of so many different epochs in
its present. This volume explores how the city's past has shaped
the way in which Rome has been built, rebuilt, represented and
imagined throughout its history. Bringing together scholars from
the disciplines of architectural history, urban studies, art
history, archaeology and film studies, this book comprises a series
of studies on the evolution of the city of Rome and the ways in
which it has represented and reconfigured itself from the medieval
period to the present day. Moving from material appropriations such
as spolia in the medieval period, through the cartographic
representations of the city in the early modern period, to filmic
representation in the twentieth century, we encounter very
different ways of making sense of the past across Rome's historical
spectrum. The broad chronological arrangement of the chapters, and
the choice of themes and urban locations examined in each, allows
the reader to draw comparisons between historical periods. An
imaginative approach to the study of the urban and architectural
make-up of Rome, this volume will be valuable not only for
historians of art and architecture, but also for students of
cultural history and film studies.
This is the first English-language account of the modern history of
China's art market that explains the radical transformations from
the end of the Cultural Revolution, when a market for art and
artifacts did not exist, to today. The book is divided into three
sections: Part I examines how the art market in China was suspended
during the Cultural Revolution, restarted, grew, and expanded into
its current scale. Part II analyzes the distinctive value system of
the Chinese art market where the state-run art system including
academies, artist associations and museums co-exist with an
independent market-oriented system; and traverses the most
significant policies that drive decision making and market
structure. Part III explores the driving force of art creation by
telling the stories of five contemporary artists across three
generations. Arts and culture professionals, scholars, and students
interested in Chinese art, global art markets, Chinese government
policy, and China will find this to be a valuable resource.
'A riveting tale, brilliantly told' Philippe Sands The little-known
story of Hitler's war on modern art and the mentally ill. In the
first years of the Weimar Republic, the German psychiatrist Hans
Prinzhorn gathered a remarkable collection of works by
schizophrenic patients that would astonish and delight the world.
The Prinzhorn collection, as it was called, inspired a new
generation of artists, including Paul Klee, Max Ernst and Salvador
Dali. What the doctor could not have known, however, was that these
works would later be used to prepare the ground for mass-murder.
Soon after his rise to power, Hitler-a failed artist of the old
school-declared war on modern art. The Nazis staged giant
'Degenerate Art' shows to ridicule the avant-garde, and seized and
destroyed the cream of Germany's modern art collections. This
action was mere preparation, however, for the even more sinister
campaign Hitler would later wage against so-called "degenerate"
people, and Prinzhorn's artists were caught up in both. Bringing
together inspirational art history, genius and madness, and the
wanton cruelty of the fanatical "artist-Fuhrer", this astonishing
story lays bare the culture war that paved the way for Hitler's
first extermination programme, the psychiatric Holocaust.
Visually appealing, conceptually startling, and intellectually
engaging-these phrases aptly describe the art of Liliana Porter.
Florencia Bazzano-Nelson's study focuses on the principal theme in
the Argentine-born artist's work since the 1970s: her playful but
subversive dismantling of the limits that separate everyday reality
from the world of illusion and simulacra. Over the years, Porter's
own evolving interest in perception lead the author to explore a
series of interconnected and timely issues in her artistic
production, such as the representative function of art, the
structural links between art and language, and the witty
re-signification of the art-historical images and mass-produced
kitsch figurines she has so often featured in her art. Strongly
founded in critical theory, Bazzano-Nelson's approach considers
Porter's art as the site of conceptually exciting dialogues with
Jorge Luis Borges, Rene Magritte, Michel Foucault, and Jean
Baudrillard. Her carefully crafted interdisciplinary analysis not
only combines art-historical, literary, and theoretical
perspectives but also addresses the artist's work in different
media, such as printmaking, conceptual art, photography, and film.
The fascinating and little-known story of the Louvre, from its
inception as a humble fortress to its transformation into the
palatial residence of the kings of France and then into the world's
greatest art museum. Some ten million people from all over the
world flock to the Louvre each year to enjoy its incomparable art
collection. Yet few of them are aware of the remarkable history of
that place and of the buildings themselves a fascinating story that
historian James Gardner elegantly chronicles in the first
full-length history of the Louvre in English. More than 7,000 years
ago, men and women camped on a spot called le Louvre for reasons
unknown; a clay quarry and a vineyard supported a society there in
the first centuries AD. A thousand years later, King Philippe
Auguste of France constructed a fortress there in 1191, just
outside the walls of a city far smaller than the Paris we know
today. Intended to protect the capital against English soldiers
stationed in Normandy, the fortress became a royal residence under
Charles V two centuries later, and then the monarchy's principal
residence under the great Renaissance king Francois I in 1546. It
remained so until 1682, when Louis XIV moved his entire court to
Versailles. Thereafter the fortunes of the Louvre languished until
the tumultuous days of the French Revolution when, during the Reign
of Terror in 1793, it first opened its doors to display the
nation's treasures. Ever since through the Napoleonic era, the
Commune, two World Wars, to the present the Louvre has been a
witness to French history, and expanded to become home to a
legendary collection, including such masterpieces as the Mona Lisa
and Venus de Milo, whose often-complicated and mysterious origins
form a spectacular narrative that rivals the building's grand
stature. Includes a 16-page full-color insert, featuring images
illustrating the history of the Louvre, a full-color endpaper map
detailing the Louvre's evolution from fortress to museum, and
black-and-white images throughout the narrative.
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A collection of essential quotations from the renowned fashion
designer, DJ, and stylist Abloh-isms is a collection of essential
quotations from American fashion designer, DJ, and stylist Virgil
Abloh, who was a major creative figure in the worlds of pop culture
and art. Abloh began his career as Kanye West's creative director
before founding the luxury streetwear label Off-White and becoming
artistic director for Louis Vuitton, making Abloh the first
American of African descent to hold that title at a French fashion
house. Defying categorization, Abloh's work has been the subject of
solo exhibitions at museums and galleries, most notably in a major
retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Gathered
from interviews and other sources, this selection of compelling and
memorable quotations from the designer reveals his thoughts on a
wide range of subjects, including creativity, passion, innovation,
race, and what it means to be an artist of his generation. Lively
and thought-provoking, these quotes reflect Abloh's unique
perspective as a trailblazer in his fields. Select quotations from
the book: "I believe that coincidence is key, but coincidence is
energies coming towards each other. You have to be moving to meet
it." "Life is collaboration. Where I think art can be sort of
misguided is that it propagates this idea of itself as a solo love
affair-one person, one idea, no one else involved." "Black
influence has created a new ecosystem, which can grow and support
different types of life that we couldn't before."
1) This book is about art that was collected and commissioned by
the East India Company. 2) It looks at landscapes and portraits on
canvas, marble statuary and funerary monuments, sandstone Buddhas
purloined from sacred sites and metal figurines of Hindu deities.
3) This book will be of interest to departments of art history and
colonial history across UK and USA.
Secret Knowledge created an international sensation when it was
published in 2001. Now, Hockney takes his controversial thesis -
that some of the masterpieces of Western art were created using
optical devices - even further in light of new and exciting
discoveries. In 32 new pages, he demonstrates how Renaissance
artists used mirrors and lenses to help them develop chiaroscuro,
perspective, and the arts of depicting three-dimensional space and
forms. Stunning in its presentation and wide-ranging in its
implications, Secret Knowledge remains the art book sensation of
the new century.
This book explores a corpus of Epirote architecture, frescoes,
sculpture, and inscriptions from the early thirteenth to the early
fourteenth century / This book will appeal to those researching and
studying Late Byzantine art and culture / This study offers a new
perspective on Byzantine political and cultural history in the
aftermath of the Fourth Crusade.
The general aim of this volume is to investigate the nature of the
relation between pictorial experience and aesthetic appreciation.
In particular, it is concerned with the character and intimacy of
this relationship: is there a mere causal connection between
pictorial experience and aesthetic appreciation, or are the two
relata constitutively associated with one another? The essays in
the book's first section investigate important conceptual issues
related to the pictorial experience of paintings. In Section II,
the essays discuss the notion of styles, techniques, agency, and
facture, and also take into account the experience of photographic
and cinematic pictures. The Pleasure of Pictures goes substantially
beyond current debates in the philosophy of depiction to launch a
new area of reflection in philosophical aesthetics.
aesthetic objects, performance, art, Aesthetic, theatre, live art,
sociology cultural studies and cultural geography.
Pursuing historical analogies between nineteenth-century theories
and the current practices captivated by digital reproducibility,
this book offers a critical take on architecture's contemporaneity
through four essays: tectonics, materiality, cladding, and labor.
Fundamental to this proposition is the historicity of Gottfried
Semper's theorization of architecture amidst the outpouring of new
materials and construction techniques during the 1850s. Starting
with Semper's differentiation between theatricalization and the
tectonic of theatricality, this book closely examines thematic
essential to architecture's self-representation. Even though the
title of this book recalls the Semperian four elements of
architecture, its argument encapsulates a unique
historico-theoretical project probing the tectonic of theatricality
beyond Semper. The invisible tie between technique and labor is the
cord running through the four subjects covered in this book. In
exploring these subjects from the theoretical standpoint of Marxian
dialectics, this book's contribution is focused on, but not limited
to, the topicality of labor today when its relationship with
capital has been further obscured by the prevailing digitalization
of commodity exchange value, starting roughly in the 1990s. Each
essay examines Semper's theorization of architecture in
contradistinction to the ways in which technology's mediation has
dominated architecture's representation. Burrowing through the
invisible tie between technique and work, asymptomatic of
architecture's predicament in global capitalism, this book advances
the scope of architectural criticism beyond the exhausted formalism
and architecture's turn to philosophy circa the 1980s and the
present tendencies for presentism. It will therefore be of interest
to researchers and students of architectural history and theory.
Painting the Novel: Pictorial Discourse in Eighteenth-Century
English Fiction focuses on the interrelationship between
eighteenth-century theories of the novel and the art of painting -
a subject which has not yet been undertaken in a book-length study.
This volume argues that throughout the century novelists from
Daniel Defoe to Ann Radcliffe referred to the visual arts,
recalling specific names or artworks, but also artistic styles and
conventions, in an attempt to define the generic constitution of
their fictions. In this, the novelists took part in the discussion
of the sister arts, not only by pointing to the affinities between
them but also, more importantly, by recognising their potential to
inform one another; in other words, they expressed a conviction
that the theory of a new genre can be successfully rendered through
meta-pictorial analogies. By tracing the uses of painting in
eighteenth-century novelistic discourse, this book sheds new light
on the history of the so-called "rise of the novel". The Open
Access version of this book, available at
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/painting-novel-jakub-lipski/10.4324/9781351137812,
has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non
Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
This book celebrates the heritage of the distinctive Apatani
community of the north-eastern Himalayan state of Arunachal Pradesh
in India. It explores the fascinating indigenous knowledge of field
and forest and a uniquely sustainable and enduring way of life that
continues to evolve in the modern context. The book tells the story
of how a material culture was shaped around bamboo and cane
resources and nurtured by a strong community spirit and
spirituality that transcended the human world and maintained an
unbroken ethos of conservation through time It highlights the
eco-sensitive lifestyle of this unique community and presents an
in-depth analysis of the Apatani tradition of the exemplary use of
natural resources. Through this engrossing detailed study, the
author observes how bamboo houses are built in 3 days, fish
cultivated in a rice field and a single river used to feed an
entire community for millennia. She highlights the triumph of the
human spirit in engineering a cultural landscape out of a swamp and
how peaceful co-existence with nature can withstand the trials of
time. Part autobiographical and powerfully personal, this book is a
primer on sustainable living as practice. It will be of interest to
researchers and students of tribal and Himalayan vernacular
architecture, traditional bamboo-cane craft, urban ecology and
geography, cultural studies, and sustainability. It will also
attract general readership while being academically useful for
anthropologists, sociologists, botanists, ecologists and
environmentalists.
Whether you're thinking of getting a tattoo or just want to see to
what lengths others have gone in decorating their bodies, this is
the book to check out. 1000 Tattoos explores the history of the art
worldwide via designs and photos-from 19th-century engravings to
tribal body art, from circus ladies of the '20s to classic biker
designs. About the series Bibliotheca Universalis - Compact
cultural companions celebrating the eclectic TASCHEN universe!
This volume explores the deeply interwoven connection of education,
art and nature in the context of East Asia. With contributions from
authors in South Korea, Japan and Taiwan, the book considers
unnoticed but significant themes involved in the interplay of
nature, art, and education. It manifests how nature and art can
educate, and how education and nature play the role of art. The
chapters explore a range of themes relevant to East Asian
characteristics, including skill acquisition, Japanese calendar
arts and ritual of feelings, garden architecture, the ritualised
body, collaborative poetry art, translational language between
humans and nature, the Confucian classical Six Arts, the artistic
embodiment of the Kyoto School, and the heritage art based
education in Korea. The authors examine these themes in novel ways
to bring to light the relevance of the East Asian insights to the
contemporary global world. This book is an outstanding resource to
all researchers, scholars, and students interested in educational
aesthetics, philosophy of education, East Asian studies,
comparative education and intercultural education.
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