Author: Nicholas Smith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Longevity
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Old Masters
Author: Thomas Dormandy
Publisher: Hambledon & London
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
"Donatello, Titian, Hals, Turner, Renoir and Munch, and a surprisingly large number of other major artists, lived to be over seventy-five. Some of their finest and most distinctive works, including Michelangelo's last Pieta, Goya's Black Paintings and Monet's Water Lilies, were done in old age. Whether experimenting with new approaches, adopting new techniques, responding to changed circumstances and debilities, or reacting to the approach of death, the intensity of the late work of many of the greatest artists is striking. Childhood genius has often been studied but, astonishingly, this is the first book to draw attention to a considerably more important artistic phenomenon. Old Masters establishes beyond doubt the frequency with which elderly painters and sculptors reached new heights in their seventies and eighties and suggest why and how they did so."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Publisher: Hambledon & London
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
"Donatello, Titian, Hals, Turner, Renoir and Munch, and a surprisingly large number of other major artists, lived to be over seventy-five. Some of their finest and most distinctive works, including Michelangelo's last Pieta, Goya's Black Paintings and Monet's Water Lilies, were done in old age. Whether experimenting with new approaches, adopting new techniques, responding to changed circumstances and debilities, or reacting to the approach of death, the intensity of the late work of many of the greatest artists is striking. Childhood genius has often been studied but, astonishingly, this is the first book to draw attention to a considerably more important artistic phenomenon. Old Masters establishes beyond doubt the frequency with which elderly painters and sculptors reached new heights in their seventies and eighties and suggest why and how they did so."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Old Age in the Old Regime
Author: David Troyansky
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501746367
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
This book explores a dramatic change in French attitudes toward aging and the aged in the eighteenth century from one extreme of ridicule and neglect to another of respect and care.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501746367
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
This book explores a dramatic change in French attitudes toward aging and the aged in the eighteenth century from one extreme of ridicule and neglect to another of respect and care.
The State and Pensions in Old Age
Author: John Alfred Spender
Publisher: London, Sonnenschein
ISBN:
Category : Old age pensions
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Publisher: London, Sonnenschein
ISBN:
Category : Old age pensions
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Cato, or, An essay on old-age
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Friendship
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Friendship
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Old Masters and Young Geniuses
Author: David W. Galenson
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400837391
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
When in their lives do great artists produce their greatest art? Do they strive for creative perfection throughout decades of painstaking and frustrating experimentation, or do they achieve it confidently and decisively, through meticulous planning that yields masterpieces early in their lives? By examining the careers not only of great painters but also of important sculptors, poets, novelists, and movie directors, Old Masters and Young Geniuses offers a profound new understanding of artistic creativity. Using a wide range of evidence, David Galenson demonstrates that there are two fundamentally different approaches to innovation, and that each is associated with a distinct pattern of discovery over a lifetime. Experimental innovators work by trial and error, and arrive at their major contributions gradually, late in life. In contrast, conceptual innovators make sudden breakthroughs by formulating new ideas, usually at an early age. Galenson shows why such artists as Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Cézanne, Jackson Pollock, Virginia Woolf, Robert Frost, and Alfred Hitchcock were experimental old masters, and why Vermeer, van Gogh, Picasso, Herman Melville, James Joyce, Sylvia Plath, and Orson Welles were conceptual young geniuses. He also explains how this changes our understanding of art and its past. Experimental innovators seek, and conceptual innovators find. By illuminating the differences between them, this pioneering book provides vivid new insights into the mysterious processes of human creativity.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400837391
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
When in their lives do great artists produce their greatest art? Do they strive for creative perfection throughout decades of painstaking and frustrating experimentation, or do they achieve it confidently and decisively, through meticulous planning that yields masterpieces early in their lives? By examining the careers not only of great painters but also of important sculptors, poets, novelists, and movie directors, Old Masters and Young Geniuses offers a profound new understanding of artistic creativity. Using a wide range of evidence, David Galenson demonstrates that there are two fundamentally different approaches to innovation, and that each is associated with a distinct pattern of discovery over a lifetime. Experimental innovators work by trial and error, and arrive at their major contributions gradually, late in life. In contrast, conceptual innovators make sudden breakthroughs by formulating new ideas, usually at an early age. Galenson shows why such artists as Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Cézanne, Jackson Pollock, Virginia Woolf, Robert Frost, and Alfred Hitchcock were experimental old masters, and why Vermeer, van Gogh, Picasso, Herman Melville, James Joyce, Sylvia Plath, and Orson Welles were conceptual young geniuses. He also explains how this changes our understanding of art and its past. Experimental innovators seek, and conceptual innovators find. By illuminating the differences between them, this pioneering book provides vivid new insights into the mysterious processes of human creativity.
Educational Review
Report of the Auditor
Author: South Dakota. Auditor's Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Finance
Languages : en
Pages : 1280
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Finance
Languages : en
Pages : 1280
Book Description
Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1264
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1264
Book Description
Masters of Old Age
Author: Nicholas Smith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Longevity
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Longevity
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Old Age and American Slavery
Author: David Stefan Doddington
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009463659
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
This book explores how age shaped slavery as an institution and how the aging process affected the enslaved and enslaver alike. It challenges static models of enslaved resistance and enslaver dominance by emphasizing intergenerational conflict in the American South. Key reading for students and scholars of slavery in the US.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009463659
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
This book explores how age shaped slavery as an institution and how the aging process affected the enslaved and enslaver alike. It challenges static models of enslaved resistance and enslaver dominance by emphasizing intergenerational conflict in the American South. Key reading for students and scholars of slavery in the US.