These six lectures, delivered at the National Gallery in Washington
last year, explore the conventionally accepted functions of Art:
religious, redemptive, destructive, revolutionary, and the validity
of that great enigma, Art for Art's sake. While the author is most
comfortable drawing his examples from the world of painting, his
arguments and theories are applied to all forms of Art, his
conclusions are pertinent to all media. As critic, Barzun is not
afraid to state his opinions, and while his prose borders on the
pedantic, seldom does he lose sight of the distinction between
opinion and interpretation. While one might not always agree with
his premises, the arguments are logically constructed and seldom is
the reader asked to take a point on faith. Barzun's conclusions
about Art, that it is not a separate entity, that the artist is not
sacred, and that Art that scorns or hates its public is of little
value, are reassuring points of view in our emperor's new clothes
age of art criticism. (Kirkus Reviews)
"When an extremely intellectual, extremely experienced, extremely
wise man shares his thoughts with others, the result seizes the
imagination at once. Such is the effect of these essays, a series
given as lectures at the National Gallery in 1973. Mr. Barzun
examines art as religion, as destroyer, as redeemer, and in
relation to what he calls "its temper, science", but never forgets
the basic essential. As he says, "the last word on art should
indeed be: mystery. But that need not stop any of us from dealing
with it as if we understood more than we can". And how good it is
to have one's mind stretched to that understanding of
"more.""--Virginia Quarterly Review
General
| Imprint: |
Princeton University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
Bollingen Series |
| Release date: |
February 1990 |
| First published: |
June 1975 |
| Authors: |
Jacques Barzun
|
| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 16mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
160 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-691-01804-1 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
0-691-01804-9 |
| Barcode: |
9780691018041 |
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