Essays in Art and Culture – serie
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Portraiture
Häftad, 1991
372 kr
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This is the first general and theoretical study devoted entirely to portraiture. Drawing on a broad range of images from Antiquity to the twentieth century, which includes paintings, sculptures, prints, cartoons, postage stamps, medals, documents and photographs, Richard Brilliant investigates the …
C. R. Mackintosh
The Poetics of Workmanship
Av David Brett
Häftad, 1992
134 kr
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Between 1896 and 1906, Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928) produced a series of buildings and interiors in and around Glasgow of such startling invention that he immediately established himself as one of the truly great figures in early twentieth-century architecture and design. David Brett …
Painting the Soul
Icons, Death Masks and Shrouds
Häftad, 1997
339 kr
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Icons are among the most elusive subjects in the history of art, but at the same time their study constitutes possibly its fastest expanding field, and with the opening-up of the former Soviet Union many new objects are being discovered, studied and exhibited. In this book, Robin Cormack considers …
Peter Greenaway
Museums and Moving Images
Av David Pascoe
Häftad, 1997
339 kr
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In all his films, Peter Greenaway shows obsessive attention to detail, exaggerating the archaic and fabricating his plots out of an artificial realm of caricature and pastiche. This book examines his vision from a number of perspectives and traces a shift of sensibility in his work. A painter by …
Postmodern Animal
Av Steve Baker
Häftad, 2000
359 kr
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In The Postmodern Animal, Steve Baker explores how animal imagery has been used in modern and contemporary art and performance, and in postmodern philosophy and literature, to suggest and shape ideas about identity and creativity. Baker cogently analyses the work of such European and American …
Robert Motherwell
with Pen and Brush
Häftad, 2002
180 kr
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Robert Motherwell was by far the most intellectual and articulate of the Abstract Expressionists. This book, written by a friend of the artist, the well-known writer and critic Mary Ann Caws, examines Motherwell’s way of thinking and writing in relation to his paintings. The artist, American by …
