Author: John Flaxman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anatomy, Artistic
Languages : en
Pages : 492

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Author: Kate Nesin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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Cy Twombly (1928-2011) is widely acknowledged as one of the postwar period's most influential American artists, yet his sculptures are little known. From 1946 onward, he made hundreds of rarely exhibited found-object assemblages, often painted or plastered over with diverse coatings of white. Across decades, Twombly thus developed a singular, strikingly consistent body of work, despite the shifting status of sculpture during his lifetime. In this revelatory monograph, Kate Nesin first establishes, then evaluates the artist's long engagement with the historical and contemporary limits of sculpture, both as medium and as word. While others have described Twombly's three-dimensional works as timeless, transcendent, and poetic, Nesin complicates our sense of their so-called poetry, focusing on the prosaic, conspicuously material operations of these sculptural "things," and emphasizing the inherent difficulties as well as possibilities of the language used to characterize them. Through close readings of individual works and in-depth analyses of certain guiding concerns, such as surface, naming, gaps, and repetitions, she illuminates Twombly's remarkable sculptural practice.

Author: Christian Michel
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 1606066463
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 490

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For the first time, a critical selection of the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture’s highly influential conférences is available in English. Between 1667 and 1792, the artists and amateurs of the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture in Paris lectured on the Académie’s conférences, foundational documents in the theory and practice of art. These texts and the principles they embody guided artistic practice and art theory in France and throughout Europe for two centuries. In the 1800s, the Académie’s influence waned, and few of the 388 Académie lectures were translated into English. Eminent scholars Christian Michel and Jacqueline Lichtenstein have selected and annotated forty-two of the most representative lectures, creating the first authoritative collection of the conférences for readers of English. Essential to understanding French art of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, these lectures reveal what leading French artists looked for in a painting or sculpture, the problems they sought to resolve in their works, and how they viewed their own and others’ artistic practice.

Author: John Flaxman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anatomy, Artistic
Languages : en
Pages : 530

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Author: John Flaxman
Publisher: London : H. G. Bohn
ISBN:
Category : Anatomy, Artistic
Languages : en
Pages : 440

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Author: Herbert Read
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780691018119
Category : Sculpture
Languages : en
Pages : 420

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The description for this book, The Art of Sculpture, will be forthcoming.

Author: John Flaxman
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368899759
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 430

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1838.

Author: Meyer Schapiro
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226750639
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 278

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Meyer Schapiro (1904-96), renowned for his critical essays on 19th and 20th century painting, also played a decisive role as a young scholar in defining the style of art and architecture known as Romanesque. This is a transcribed and edited version of his Charles Eliot Norton Lectures.

Author: John Flaxman
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781022806900
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This book collects the influential lectures on art and aesthetics delivered by John Flaxman, a prominent British sculptor of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. In his talks, Flaxman explores the principles of design that underlie all great works of art, and offers detailed analyses of specific sculptures by famous artists like Michelangelo and Bernini. His insights into the creative process and the nature of beauty continue to inspire artists and scholars today. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author: Henry Weekes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 446

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