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Water and Art (Paperback)
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Water and Art (Paperback)
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Restless, protean, fluid, evanescent - despite being hugely
challenging to represent visually, water has gained a peculiar
significance in the art of the twentieth century. This may be due
to the fact that it allows for a range of metaphorical meanings,
many of which are particularly appropriate to the modern age. Not
only a subject of contemporary art, but also a material
increasingly used in art-making, water's double presence can be
detected as much in the marine-themed watercolours of Turner as in
the more recent works of performance and installation art in which
it is directly employed as a medium. "Water and Art" probes the
ways in which water has gained an unprecedented prominence in
modern Western art, as well as seeking to illuminate its depiction
in earlier periods. David Clarke employs a cross-cultural approach,
finding parallels within contemporary Chinese art, which draws on a
cultural tradition in which water has a marked presence as both
subject and medium. Featuring a wealth of images by artists from
East and West including Leonardo da Vinci, Bernini, Turner,
Gericault, Klee, Matisse, Monet, Picasso, Mondrian, Kandinsky, Fu
Baoshi, Shi Tao, Wei Zixi and Fang Rending, "Water and Art" helps
to promote a new and less culturally-narrow approach to the
understanding of art. Fast-paced, accessible, and comprehensive, it
will appeal to the specialist and the general reader alike,
offering fresh perspectives on familiar artists as well as an
introduction to others who are much less recognised in the
literature of art history.
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