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Written by a group of highly respected art historians, the fifth
edition of this classic book now features full-colour artworks
throughout, new chapter introductions, examinations of key ideas,
and other helpful pedagogical support. Emphasizing the vitality of
19th-century art, the authors demonstrate how paintings,
sculptures, prints and drawings by David, Gericault, Turner, Homer,
Cassatt, Rodin, Van Gogh and many others remain relevant today.
Using evocative and lucid prose, the authors reveal how concerns
about class and gender, race and ethnicity, modernity and
tradition, and popular and elite culture - ideas that arose in the
course of the 19th century - motivated artists and propelled the
movements under review.
Francis Bacon is considered one of the most important painters of
the twentieth century. A major exhibition of his paintings at the
Royal Academy of Arts, planned for 2020 but postponed because of
the pandemic, explores the role of animals in his work – not
least the human animal. Having often painted dogs and horses, in
1969 Bacon first depicted bullfights. In this powerful series of
works, the interaction between man and beast is dangerous and
cruel, but also disturbingly intimate. Both are contorted in their
anguished struggle, and the erotic lurks not far away:
‘Bullfighting is like boxing,’ Bacon once said. ‘A marvellous
aperitif to sex.’ Twenty-two years later, a lone bull was to be
the subject of his final painting. In this fascinating publication
– a significant addition to the literature on Bacon – expert
authors discuss Bacon’s approach to animals and identify his
varied sources of inspiration, which included wildlife photography
and the motion studies of Eadweard Muybridge. They contend that, by
considering animals in states of vulnerability, anger and unease,
Bacon was able to lay bare the role of instinctual behaviour in the
human condition. Images below, left to right: Francis Bacon
(1909-1992), Fragment of a Crucifixion, 1950. Oil and cotton wool
on canvas, 140 x 108.5 cm. Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven.
Photo Hugo Maertens Francis Bacon (1909-1992), Study for Portrait
(with Two Owls), 1963. Oil on canvas, 198.1 x 144.8 cm. Private
collection. Photo Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd Francis Bacon
(1909-1992), Man with Dog, 1953. Oil on canvas, 152 x 117 cm.
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York. Gift of Seymour H.
Knox Jr, 1955, inv. K1955:3. Photo Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd
All images © The Estate of Francis Bacon. All rights reserved,
DACS/Artimage 2020.
A diverse set of contributions to the expanding field of
ecocritical studies Seeking a broad reexamination of visual culture
through the lenses of ecocriticism, environmental justice, and
animal studies, Picture Ecology offers a diverse range of art
historical criticism formulated within an ecological context. This
book brings together scholars whose contributions extend
chronologically and geographically from eleventh-century Chinese
painting to contemporary photography of California wildfires. The
book's fifteen interdisciplinary essays provide a dynamic,
cross-cultural approach to an increasingly vital area of study,
emphasizing the environmental dimensions inherent in the content
and materials of aesthetic objects. Picture Ecology provides
valuable new approaches for considering works of art in ways that
are timely, intellectually stimulating, and universally
significant. With contributions by Alan C. Braddock, Maura
Coughlin, Rachael Z. DeLue, T. J. Demos, Monica Dominguez Torres,
Finis Dunaway, Stephen F. Eisenman, Emily Gephart, Karl Kusserow,
De-nin D. Lee, Gregory Levine, Anne McClintock, James Nisbet,
Andrew Patrizio, Sugata Ray, and Greg M. Thomas. Distributed for
the Princeton University Art Museum
A stunningly illustrated look at how Blake's radical vision
influenced artists of the Beat generation and 1960s counterculture
In his own lifetime, William Blake (1757-1827) was a relatively
unknown nonconventional artist with a strong political bent.
William Blake and the Age of Aquarius is a beautifully illustrated
look at how, some two hundred years after his birth, the
antiestablishment values embodied in Blake's art and poetry became
a model for artists of the American counterculture. This book
provides new insights into the politics and protests of Blake's own
lifetime, and the generation of artists who revived and reimagined
his work in the mid-1940s through 1970, or what might be called the
"long sixties." Contributors explore Blake's outsider status in
Georgian England and how his individualistic vision spoke to
members of the Beat Generation, hippies, radical poets and writers,
and other voices of the counterculture. Among the artists,
musicians, and writers who looked to Blake were such diverse
figures as Diane Arbus, Jay DeFeo, the Doors, Sam Francis, Allen
Ginsberg, Jess, Agnes Martin, Ad Reinhardt, Charles Seliger,
Maurice Sendak, Robert Smithson, Clyfford Still, and many others.
This book also explores visual cultures around such galvanizing
moments of the 1960s as Woodstock and the Summer of Love. William
Blake and the Age of Aquarius shows how Blake's myths, visions, and
radicalism found new life among American artists who valued
individualism and creativity, explored expanded consciousness, and
celebrated youth, peace, and the power of love in a turbulent age.
Exhibition schedule: Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art,
Northwestern University September 23, 2017-March 11, 2018
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