Author: Jeff Andrews
Publisher: Arena books
ISBN: 1911593366
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
A critique of abstract modern art from a constructive common sense perspective.
Art Bollockese
Author: Jeff Andrews
Publisher: Arena books
ISBN: 1911593366
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
A critique of abstract modern art from a constructive common sense perspective.
Publisher: Arena books
ISBN: 1911593366
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
A critique of abstract modern art from a constructive common sense perspective.
Art Bollockese
Author: Jeff Andrews
Publisher: Arena Books Limited
ISBN: 9781911593355
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
A critique of abstract modern art from a constructive common sense perspective.
Publisher: Arena Books Limited
ISBN: 9781911593355
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
A critique of abstract modern art from a constructive common sense perspective.
The Annotated Mona Lisa
Author: Carol Strickland
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN: 9780836280050
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Cutting through the fog of jargon and theories that can make art seem hopelessly remote, The Annotated Mona Lisa demystifies art history. It's a brisk, clearly stated survey, from cave painting to conceptual art, that doesn't talk down to its reader and doesn't assume a prior art education. Dynamic design, page-length essays, frequent sidebars, and abundant illustrations make this compendium a browser's delight. 300 illustrations, one third in color.
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN: 9780836280050
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Cutting through the fog of jargon and theories that can make art seem hopelessly remote, The Annotated Mona Lisa demystifies art history. It's a brisk, clearly stated survey, from cave painting to conceptual art, that doesn't talk down to its reader and doesn't assume a prior art education. Dynamic design, page-length essays, frequent sidebars, and abundant illustrations make this compendium a browser's delight. 300 illustrations, one third in color.
Artificial Darkness
Author: Noam M. Elcott
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022632897X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
This ambitious study explores how important darkness--artificial darkness--was, as an actual technology, in producing not just photographs but visual novelties and experiments in cinema in the nineteenth century. The study plays out against a backdrop of urban history, where most scholars have focused on the growth of artificial light and the electrification of cities. Elcott’s study challenges that approach. In considering zones of darkness, it ranges from the sites of production (darkrooms, studios) to those of reception (theaters/cinemas/arcades) that shaped modern media and perceptions. He argues that, in the nineteenth century, the avant-garde was often less interested in the filmed image than in everything surrounding it: the screen, the projected light, the darkness, the experience of disembodiment. He argues that darkness has a history separate from night, evil, or the color black, and has a specifically modern manifestation as a media technology. We are all aware of the "velvet light trap” in photography, but at the heart of this book are technologies of darkness crucial to cinema that were commonly known as "the black screen,” but have, over time, faded from the storied discourse.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022632897X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
This ambitious study explores how important darkness--artificial darkness--was, as an actual technology, in producing not just photographs but visual novelties and experiments in cinema in the nineteenth century. The study plays out against a backdrop of urban history, where most scholars have focused on the growth of artificial light and the electrification of cities. Elcott’s study challenges that approach. In considering zones of darkness, it ranges from the sites of production (darkrooms, studios) to those of reception (theaters/cinemas/arcades) that shaped modern media and perceptions. He argues that, in the nineteenth century, the avant-garde was often less interested in the filmed image than in everything surrounding it: the screen, the projected light, the darkness, the experience of disembodiment. He argues that darkness has a history separate from night, evil, or the color black, and has a specifically modern manifestation as a media technology. We are all aware of the "velvet light trap” in photography, but at the heart of this book are technologies of darkness crucial to cinema that were commonly known as "the black screen,” but have, over time, faded from the storied discourse.
Final Liquidation of Borsato Sculptured Art Treasures
Author: Chicago Art Galleries
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Languages : en
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Fernando Botero
Author: Edward J. Sullivan
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
The drawings and watercolors handsomely illustrated in this volume provide a comprehensive overview of Fernando Botero's work in this media, which has seldom been reproduced. An introductory essay by Prof. Edward J. Sullivan of New York University, and biographical notes complete the catalogue and provide a framework for these superb but less well-known works by Botero. With consummate technical ability, this important twentieth century artist has revived the use of ancient materials: sanguine, charcoal, sepia pencil, wash and ink. Most of his drawings are executed on paper, sometimes on canvas, with great attention paid to the quality of the support. Botero uses a variety of drawing techniques. Some pieces are preparatory drawings for entire compositions - usually quick sketches of a drawing or sculpture - but the majority are independent works of art that rarely, if ever, repeat a composition the artist has executed in oils. Botero draws with affection. Each stroke of the pen or brush is applied with the knowledge that it will create another small but important part of the rich world populated by sensuous figures that has evolved throughout the years in the imagination of the artist. These drawings compel us to confront Botero's art and personality even more directly than in his paintings. In examining them with care, we are privileged to receive a glimpse into the creative mind and fertile imagination of this master. Looking at his drawings we can almost follow the genesis of the artist's ideas. It is as if we were seated at his side in intimate dialogue with him, watching his hand create the simulacra of his inner imagination.
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
The drawings and watercolors handsomely illustrated in this volume provide a comprehensive overview of Fernando Botero's work in this media, which has seldom been reproduced. An introductory essay by Prof. Edward J. Sullivan of New York University, and biographical notes complete the catalogue and provide a framework for these superb but less well-known works by Botero. With consummate technical ability, this important twentieth century artist has revived the use of ancient materials: sanguine, charcoal, sepia pencil, wash and ink. Most of his drawings are executed on paper, sometimes on canvas, with great attention paid to the quality of the support. Botero uses a variety of drawing techniques. Some pieces are preparatory drawings for entire compositions - usually quick sketches of a drawing or sculpture - but the majority are independent works of art that rarely, if ever, repeat a composition the artist has executed in oils. Botero draws with affection. Each stroke of the pen or brush is applied with the knowledge that it will create another small but important part of the rich world populated by sensuous figures that has evolved throughout the years in the imagination of the artist. These drawings compel us to confront Botero's art and personality even more directly than in his paintings. In examining them with care, we are privileged to receive a glimpse into the creative mind and fertile imagination of this master. Looking at his drawings we can almost follow the genesis of the artist's ideas. It is as if we were seated at his side in intimate dialogue with him, watching his hand create the simulacra of his inner imagination.
The Renowned Art Collection of David Belasco, Second Session
Author: American Art Association
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Bacchiacca and His Friends
Author: Baltimore Museum of Art
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Languages : en
Pages : 71
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Languages : en
Pages : 71
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Dan Palumbo, the Room of Chicago Art
Author: Art Institute of Chicago
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