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This book is under the impression that the general cultivation of
practical taste, and an acquaintance with the principles of the
Fine Arts, are not only desirable in the light of acquirement, but
must eventually prove highly beneficial to the useful arts of the
country.
John Carter, the important post-war abstract sculptor, presents his
works on paper. Reveals the beauty of his mathematically rigorous
explorations. John Carter RA has made some of the most beautiful
and lucid artworks of the last fifty years. The apparent simplicity
and directness of his abstract reliefs belie an ambiguity that
extends even to their definition, as Carter seeks subtly to
reimagine the relationship between sculpture and painting. Carter
is best known for his 'wall objects', shallow sculptures based on
abstract mathematical formulae. He begins each work with notebook
sketches, moving on to larger, measured drawings. It is these
drawings - taken from throughout Carter's career - that this book
presents. Each drawing is a fascinating model of colour
abstraction, with commentary by the artist. Carter's drawings
reveal the originality of his mind and the love of exactitude and
clarity that drives his practice. His singular contribution to the
post-war flowering of British abstraction can clearly be seen here.
Beginning in the seventeenth century, the greatest French writers
and artists became embroiled in a debate that turned on the
priority of painting or sculpture, touch or sight, color or design,
ancients or moderns. Jacqueline Lichtenstein guides readers through
these historic quarrels, decoding the key terms of the heated
discussions and revealing how the players were influenced by the
concurrent explosion of scientific discoveries concerning the
senses of sight and touch. Drawing on the work of Rene Descartes,
Roger de Piles, Denis Diderot, Charles Baudelaire, and emile Zola,
among others, "The Blind Spot" lets readers eavesdrop on an
energetic and contentious conversation that preoccupied French
intellectuals for three hundred years.
This book, the first comprehensive interdisciplinary account of
Michelangelo's work as a sculptor in bronze, is the outcome of
extensive original research undertaken over several years by
academics at the University of Cambridge together with a team of
international experts, directed by Dr Victoria Avery, a leading
authority on the history, art and technology of bronze casting in
Renaissance Italy. The catalyst for this innovative project was the
attribution to Michelangelo of the Rothschild bronzes - two
extraordinary bronze groups of nude men on fantastical panthers -
prior to their display at the Fitzwilliam Museum in 2015. First
proposed by the distinguished Michelangelo scholar Professor Paul
Joannides and validated by the wide-ranging research published
here, the attribution to Michelangelo has now gained widespread
acceptance. As part of this pioneering project, Professor Peter
Abrahams, the eminent clinical anatomist specialising in
dissection, has carried out the first ever in-depth scientific
analysis of the anatomy of Michelangelo's nude figures. Abrahams'
findings have uncovered hitherto unrecognised features of
Michelangelo's unparalleled mastery of the structure and workings
of the human body that give the gesture and the motion of his
figures their unique expressive force. Enigmatic and
visually-striking masterpieces, the Rothschild bronzes are the
focus of this multi-authored, interdisciplinary volume that
contains ground-breaking contributions by leading experts in the
fields of art history, anatomy, conservation science, bronze
casting and the history of collecting.
The artist Sappho Marchal was the daughter of the renowned French
conservator of Angkor, Henri Marchal. She spent the early years of
her life in Cambodia, surrounded by the magnificent ruins of the
Khmers, and produced the present study at age 23. Her fine line
drawings present the myriad details of ornament and costume
depicted on the stone reliefs of Angkor Wat with a clarity that
could not be captured, even then, on film. Since that time, many of
the stone carvings have severely deteriorated, rendering Marchal's
drawings all the more valuable as a record for present-day students
and restorers of Angkor.
This catalogue contains all the sculptures on display in the
National Archaeological Museum of Athens, undoubtedly the most
important collection of ancient Greek sculptures in the world. Each
entry is supplemented by a full bibliography and is written not
only for experts but also for the general reading public. A useful
short introduction offers readers an overview of ancient Greek
sculpture from the Archaic period to the end of Antiquity.
Included in this lavishly illustrated volume are the Poseidon of
Artemision, a statue of the god brandishing his trident; a marble
group of Aphrodite, Pan and Eros found on Delos; the Sounion
Kouros, a colossal votive statue found in the sanctuary of Poseidon
at Sounion; and the Roman statue of a young athlete, Diadoumenos.
Much of the sculpture created in ancient Greece that has survived
is funerary in nature. These markers commemorating the dead were
traditionally placed along roads near the entrances to cities,
where they could be seen by all. Although the monuments vary
greatly in style, quality, and elaboration, they reach across the
millennia speaking the universal language of human grief.
This illustrated catalogue presents fifty-nine Greek funerary
monuments in the Antiquities collection of the Getty Museum.
Spanning the Classical and Hellenistic periods, this collection
offers new insight into Greek art and society that will be of
interest to both scholars and the general public.
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