A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts – serie
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Bosch and Bruegel
From Enemy Painting to Everyday Life
Inbunden, 2016
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
820 kr
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In this visually stunning and much anticipated book, acclaimed art historian Joseph Koerner casts the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Bruegel in a completely new light, revealing how the painting of everyday life was born from what seems its polar opposite: the depiction of an enemy …
Twelve Caesars
Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern
Av Mary Beard
Häftad, 2023
228 kr
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From the bestselling author of SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, the fascinating story of how images of Roman autocrats have influenced art, culture, and the representation of power for more than 2,000 yearsWhat does the face of power look like? Who gets commemorated in art and why? And how do we …
From Drawing to Painting
Poussin, Watteau, Fragonard, David, and Ingres
Inbunden, 2000
803 kr
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Pierre Rosenberg, the distinguished art historian and director of the Musee du Louvre, has long admired and studied both paintings and drawings. This dual interest may seem commonplace but is in fact highly unusual: specialists in the field of drawing rarely write about painting, and vice versa. …
Use and Abuse of Art
Häftad, 1975
290 kr
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The lecturer traces the historical development of attitudes toward the arts over the past 150 years, suggesting that the present is a period of cultural liquidation, nothing less than the ending of the modern age that began with the Renaissance.
Pictures of Nothing
Abstract Art since Pollock
Inbunden, 2006
662 kr
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"What is abstract art good for? What's the use--for us as individuals, or for any society--of pictures of nothing, of paintings and sculptures or prints or drawings that do not seem to show anything except themselves?" In this invigorating account of abstract art since Jackson Pollock, eminent art …
Imago Dei
The Byzantine Apologia for Icons
Häftad, 2011
505 kr
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In 726 the Byzantine emperor, Leo III, issued an edict that all religious images in the empire were to be destroyed, a directive that was later endorsed by a synod of the Church in 753 under his son, Constantine V. If the policy of Iconoclasm had succeeded, the entire history of Christian art--and …
Last Looks, Last Books
Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill
Inbunden, 2010
304 kr
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In Last Looks, Last Books, the eminent critic Helen Vendler examines the ways in which five great modern American poets, writing their final books, try to find a style that does justice to life and death alike. With traditional religious consolations no longer available to them, these poets must …
Moment of Caravaggio
Inbunden, 2010
706 kr
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This is a groundbreaking examination of one of the most important artists in the Western tradition by one of the leading art historians and critics of the past half-century. In his first extended consideration of the Italian Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1573-1610), Michael …
Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry
Häftad, 2023
476 kr
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The classic work on the sublime interplay between the arts and poeticsThis book explores the rich and complex relationship between art and poetry, shedding invaluable light on what makes each art form unique yet wholly interdependent. Jacques Maritain insists on the part played by the intellect as …
Eternal Present, Volume I
The Beginnings of Art
Häftad, 2023
582 kr
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A groundbreaking reevaluation of paleolithic art through the lens of modernism, from the acclaimed historian of art and architectureIn The Beginnings of Art, Sigfried Giedion, best known as a historian of architecture, shifts his attention to art and its very origins. Breaking with an earlier, …
Christian Iconography
A Study of Its Origins
Av André Grabar
Häftad, 2023
476 kr
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An illuminating look at the iconography of the early church and its important place in the history of Christian artIn this book, historian André Grabar demonstrates how early Christian iconography assimilated contemporary imagery of the time. Grabar looks at the most characteristic examples of …
Portrait in the Renaissance
Häftad, 2023
476 kr
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A major account of Renaissance portraiture by one of the twentieth century’s most eminent art historiansIn this book, John Pope-Hennessy provides an unprecedented look at two centuries of experiment in portraiture during the Renaissance. Pope-Hennessy shows how the Renaissance cult of individuality …
Mnemosyne
The Parallel Between Literature and the Visual Arts
Av Mario Praz
Häftad, 2023
335 kr
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The classic study of the timeless relationship between literature and the visual artsIn his search for a common link between literature and the visual arts, Mario Praz draws on the abundant evidence of mutual understanding and correspondence they have long shared. Praz explains that within …
Giorgio Vasari
The Man and the Book
Häftad, 2023
432 kr
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A striking account of Vasari’s career, friendships, and contribution to the art of the Italian RenaissanceVasari’s Lives of the Most Excellent Architects, Painters, and Sculptors, first published in 1550, fixed for three hundred years general European views about the art of the Renaissance, and its …
Sack of Rome, 1527
Häftad, 2023
432 kr
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From a leading art historian of Renaissance Italy, a compelling account of the artistic and cultural impact of the sack of sixteenth-century RomeIn this illustrated account of the sack of Rome as a cultural and artistic phenomenon, André Chastel reveals the historical ambiguities of preceding …
Cézanne and America
Dealers, Collectors, Artists, and Critics, 1891-1921
Av John Rewald
Häftad, 2023
379 kr
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The classic work by internationally acclaimed Cézanne scholar John RewaldIn Cézanne and America, John Rewald presents a full account of how Paul Cézanne’s reputation and influence became established in America between 1891 and 1921, and of how some of the world’s largest collections of his works …
Mediation of Ornament
Av Oleg Grabar
Häftad, 2023
379 kr
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How ornamentation enables a direct and immediate encounter between viewers and art objectsBased on universal motifs, ornamentation occurs in many artistic traditions, though it reaches its most expressive, tangible, and unique form in the art of the Islamic world. The Mediation of Ornament shares a …
Gold, Silver, and Bronze
Metal Sculpture of the Roman Baroque
Häftad, 2023
379 kr
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An in-depth look at the exquisite metal sculpture of the Roman baroqueRoman baroque sculpture is usually thought of in terms of large-scale statues in marble and bronze, tombs, or portrait busts. Smaller bronze statuettes are often overlooked, and the extensive production of sculptural silver—much …
On the Laws of the Poetic Art
Häftad, 2023
374 kr
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A magisterial exploration of poetry’s place in the fine arts by one of the twentieth century's leading poetsIn this book, eminent poet Anthony Hecht explores the art of poetry and its relationship to the other fine arts. While the problems he treats entail both philosophic and theoretical …
Ten Thousand Things
Module and Mass Production in Chinese Art
Häftad, 2023
432 kr
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An incomparable look at how Chinese artists have used mass production to assemble exquisite objects from standardized partsChinese workers in the third century BCE created seven thousand life-sized terracotta soldiers to guard the tomb of the First Emperor. In the eleventh century CE, Chinese …
Nicolas Poussin
Häftad, 2023
718 kr
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A landmark account of the work, thought, and life of the seventeenth-century French painterIn this book, Anthony Blunt presents a rich account of the paintings, life, and development of the great seventeenth-century French classicist Nicolas Poussin (1594–1665), addressing the artist’s entire …
Colorstruck!
Painting, Pigment, Affect
Inbunden, 2026
582 kr
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How Black painters use color to create meaning, provoke remembrance, stir emotion, and uplift the spiritColor does more than capture a viewer’s attention. It assaults one’s equilibrium physically and psychologically. In this stunning book, Richard Powell draws on the concept of “colorstruck,” a …
