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Art and its Observers (Paperback): Patricia Emison Art and its Observers (Paperback)
Patricia Emison
R1,834 Discovery Miles 18 340 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Low and High Style in Italian Renaissance Art (Paperback): Patricia Emison Low and High Style in Italian Renaissance Art (Paperback)
Patricia Emison
R1,440 Discovery Miles 14 400 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Art and its Observers [Premium Color] (Hardcover): Patricia Emison Art and its Observers [Premium Color] (Hardcover)
Patricia Emison
R2,640 Discovery Miles 26 400 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Low and High Style in Italian Renaissance Art (Hardcover): Patricia Emison Low and High Style in Italian Renaissance Art (Hardcover)
Patricia Emison
R3,895 Discovery Miles 38 950 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

During the later 15th and in the 16th centuries pictures began to be made without action, without place for heroism, pictures more rueful than celebratory. In part, Renaissance art adjusted to the social and economic pressures with an art we may be hard pressed to recognize under that same rubric-an art not so much of perfected nature as simply artless. Granted, the heroic and epic mode of the Renaissance was that practiced most self-consciously and proudly. Yet it is one of the accomplishments of Renaissance art that heroic and epic subjects and style occasionally made way for less affirmative subjects and compositional norms, for improvisation away from the Vitruvian ideal. The limits of idealizing art, during the very period denominated as High Renaissance, is a topic that involves us in the history of class prejudice, of gender stereotypes, of the conceptualization of the present, of attitudes toward the ordinary, and of scruples about the power of sight
Exploring the low style leads us particularly to works of art intended for display in private settings as personally owned objects, potentially as signs of quite personal emotions rather than as subscriptions to publicly vaunted ideologies. Not all of them show shepherds or peasants; none of them-not even Giorgione's "La tempesta"-is a classic pastoral idyll. The"rosso stile" is to be understood as more comprehensive than that. The issue is not only who is represented, but whether the work can or cannot be fit into the mold of a basically affirmative art.

The Italian Renaissance and Cultural Memory (Hardcover): Patricia Emison The Italian Renaissance and Cultural Memory (Hardcover)
Patricia Emison
R2,261 Discovery Miles 22 610 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Why did Renaissance art come to matter so much, so widely, and for so long? Patricia Emison's answer depends on a recalibrated view of the long Renaissance from 1300 to 1600 synthesizing the considerable evolution in our understanding of the epoch since the foundational 19th-century studies of Burckhardt and Wolfflin. Demonstrating that the imitation of nature and of antiquity must no longer define its limits, she exposes Renaissance style's self-consciously modern aspect. She sets the art against the literary and political interests of the time, and analyzes works both of very familiar artists Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael and of lesser-known figures, including Cima and Barocci. An understanding emerges of both the period's long-standing fame and its various historical debts. Moving beyond the Renaissance, Emison unfolds the varying and layered significance it has held from the Old Master era through Impressionism, Modernism, and Post-Modernism.

Leonardo (Paperback): Patricia Emison Leonardo (Paperback)
Patricia Emison
R230 R184 Discovery Miles 1 840 Save R46 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

The latest addition to Phaidon's best-selling Colour Library series of affordable introductory books on the great masters and movements in art features all of Leonardo' da Vinci's painted works and a detailed illustrated introduction.

Art and its Observers (Color) (Paperback): Patricia Emison Art and its Observers (Color) (Paperback)
Patricia Emison
R2,138 Discovery Miles 21 380 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Art and its Observers (B&W) (Paperback): Patricia Emison Art and its Observers (B&W) (Paperback)
Patricia Emison
R1,094 Discovery Miles 10 940 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Shaping of Art History - Meditations on a Discipline (Paperback): Patricia Emison The Shaping of Art History - Meditations on a Discipline (Paperback)
Patricia Emison
R771 Discovery Miles 7 710 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In this provocative book, Patricia Emison invites the reader to consider and reconsider how past thinkers--from Pliny and Alberti to Freud and Fried--have conceptualized the history of Western art. What a book review attempts to be for a book, this extended essay attempts to be for several hundred years' worth of books in a field: an indicator of problems with the old attempts and hopes for the new ones. It is a defense of art history for those outside the field who question its reliability or even its importance; it is a critique of art history for those in the field who may have been preoccupied with looking at trees but who might be interested in trying to see the forest.

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