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)
689 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 …
Brutal Aesthetics
Dubuffet, Bataille, Jorn, Paolozzi, Oldenburg
Av Hal Foster
Inbunden, 2020
602 kr
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How artists created an aesthetic of “positive barbarism” in a world devastated by World War II, the Holocaust, and the atomic bombIn Brutal Aesthetics, leading art historian Hal Foster explores how postwar artists and writers searched for a new foundation of culture after the massive devastation of …
Nude
A Study in Ideal Form
Häftad, 1972
353 kr
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A landmark study of the nude in art—from the ancient Greeks to Henry Moore—by a towering figure in art historyIn this classic book, Kenneth Clark, one of the most eminent art historians of the twentieth century, examines the ever-changing fashion in what constitutes the ideal nude as a basis of …
Twelve Caesars
Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern
Av Mary Beard
Inbunden, 2021
311 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 …
Contact: Art and the Pull of Print
Häftad, 2024
372 kr
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A leading art historian presents a new grammar for understanding the meaning and significance of printIn process and technique, printmaking is an art of physical contact. From woodcut and engraving to lithography and screenprinting, every print is the record of a contact event: the transfer of an …
From Drawing to Painting
Poussin, Watteau, Fragonard, David, and Ingres
Inbunden, 2000
789 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. …
Last Looks, Last Books
Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill
Inbunden, 2010
298 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 …
Chinese Painting and Its Audiences
Av Craig Clunas
Inbunden, 2017
632 kr
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What is Chinese painting? When did it begin? And what are the different associations of this term in China and the West? In Chinese Painting and Its Audiences, which is based on the A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts given at the National Gallery of Art, leading art historian Craig Clunas draws …
Restoration
The Fall of Napoleon in the Course of European Art, 1812-1820
Av Thomas Crow
Inbunden, 2018
441 kr
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How social upheavals after the collapse of the French Empire shaped the lives and work of artists in early nineteenth-century EuropeAs the French Empire collapsed between 1812 and 1815, artists throughout Europe were left uncertain and adrift. The final abdication of Emperor Napoleon, clearing the …
Thief Who Stole My Heart
The Material Life of Sacred Bronzes from Chola India, 855–1280
Inbunden, 2021
783 kr
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The first book to put the sacred and sensuous bronze statues from India’s Chola dynasty in social contextFrom the ninth through the thirteenth century, the Chola dynasty of southern India produced thousands of statues of Hindu deities, whose physical perfection was meant to reflect spiritual beauty …
Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry
Häftad, 2023
468 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 …
Art of Sculpture
Av Herbert Read
Häftad, 2023
447 kr
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A stunning visual history of sculpture from prehistory through modernityThis book presents an aesthetic of sculptural art, which has too often submitted to the rule of architecture and painting. Herbert Read emphasizes the essential and autonomous nature of sculpture—“Form in its full spatial …
Painting and Reality
Häftad, 2023
454 kr
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A classic study of the art of painting and its relationship to reality In this book, Étienne Gilson puts forward a bold interpretation of the kind of reality depicted in paintings and its relation to the natural order. Drawing on insights from the writings of great painters—from Leonardo, Reynolds, …
Christian Iconography
A Study of Its Origins
Av André Grabar
Häftad, 2023
468 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 …
Blake and Antiquity
Häftad, 2023
364 kr
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The classic book on William Blake as prophet of the New AgeWilliam Blake (1757–1827) inhabited a remarkable inner world, one that he brought vividly to life in his poetry, painting, and printmaking. Blake and Antiquity situates this brilliant and enigmatic artist within the Western esoteric canon, …
Visionary and Dreamer
Two Poetic Painters: Samuel Palmer and Edward Burne-Jones
Av David Cecil
Häftad, 2023
424 kr
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An eminent literary biographer and critic shows how poetry enriched the art of two representative English Romantic paintersIn Visionary and Dreamer, David Cecil evokes the century of the poet-painter, when painting drew much of its inspiration from imaginative literature. Samuel Palmer (1805–1881), …
Mnemosyne
The Parallel Between Literature and the Visual Arts
Av Mario Praz
Häftad, 2023
329 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 …
Rare Art Traditions
The History of Art Collecting and Its Linked Phenomena
Av Joseph Alsop
Häftad, 2023
737 kr
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A cultural and social history of art collecting, art history, and the art marketIn The Rare Art Traditions, Joseph Alsop offers a wide-ranging cultural and social history of art collecting, art history, and the art market. He argues that art collecting is the basic element in a remarkably complex …
Gold, Silver, and Bronze
Metal Sculpture of the Roman Baroque
Häftad, 2023
372 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
367 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
424 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
714 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 …
Forest
A Fable of America in the 1830s
Häftad, 2024
250 kr
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A vivid historical imagining of life in the early United States“One of the richest books ever to come my way.”—Annie Proulx, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Shipping News“This is a wonderful book. . . . An extraordinary achievement.”—Edmund de Waal, New York Times bestselling author of The …
