Author: Kenneth Clark
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Discussion of five masters of humanistic architecture, painting and sculpture in fifteenth century Italy - Alberti, Donatello, Uccello, Mantegna and Botticelli.
The Art of Humanism
Author: Kenneth Clark
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Discussion of five masters of humanistic architecture, painting and sculpture in fifteenth century Italy - Alberti, Donatello, Uccello, Mantegna and Botticelli.
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Discussion of five masters of humanistic architecture, painting and sculpture in fifteenth century Italy - Alberti, Donatello, Uccello, Mantegna and Botticelli.
Albrecht Dürer's Renaissance
Author: David Price
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472113439
Category : Art, Renaissance
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
This lavishly illustrated book provides a fresh and challenging new perspective on the life and Work of Dürer
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472113439
Category : Art, Renaissance
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
This lavishly illustrated book provides a fresh and challenging new perspective on the life and Work of Dürer
The New Humanism
Author: Barry N. Schwartz
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Ficino and Fantasy
Author: Marieke J.E. van den Doel
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004459685
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Did the Florentine philosopher Marsilio Ficino (1433-99) influence the art of his time? This book starts with an exploration of Ficino’s views on the imagination and discusses whether, how and why these ideas may have been received in Italian Renaissance works of art.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004459685
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Did the Florentine philosopher Marsilio Ficino (1433-99) influence the art of his time? This book starts with an exploration of Ficino’s views on the imagination and discusses whether, how and why these ideas may have been received in Italian Renaissance works of art.
Art and Posthumanism
Author: Cary Wolfe
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452966567
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
A sustained engagement between contemporary art and philosophy relating to our place in, and responsibility to, the nonhuman world How do contemporary art and theory contemplate the problem of the “bio” of biopolitics and bioart? How do they understand the question of “life” that binds human and nonhuman worlds in their shared travail? In Art and Posthumanism, Cary Wolfe argues for the reconceptualization of nature in art and theory to turn the idea of the relationship between the human and the planet upside down. Wolfe explores a wide range of contemporary artworks—from Sue Coe’s illustrations of animals in factory farms and Eduardo Kac’s bioart to the famous performance pieces of Joseph Bueys and the video installations of Eija-Liisa Ahtila, among others—examining how posthumanist theory can illuminate, and be illuminated by, artists’ engagement with the more-than-human world. Looking at biological and social systems, the question of the animal, and biopolitics, Art and Posthumanism explores how contemporary art rivets our attention on the empirically thick, emotionally charged questions of “life” and the “living” amid ecological catastrophe. One of the foremost theorists of posthumanism, Wolfe pushes that philosophy out of the realm of the purely theoretical to show how a posthumanist engagement with particular works and their conceptual underpinnings help to develop more potent ethical and political commitments.
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452966567
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
A sustained engagement between contemporary art and philosophy relating to our place in, and responsibility to, the nonhuman world How do contemporary art and theory contemplate the problem of the “bio” of biopolitics and bioart? How do they understand the question of “life” that binds human and nonhuman worlds in their shared travail? In Art and Posthumanism, Cary Wolfe argues for the reconceptualization of nature in art and theory to turn the idea of the relationship between the human and the planet upside down. Wolfe explores a wide range of contemporary artworks—from Sue Coe’s illustrations of animals in factory farms and Eduardo Kac’s bioart to the famous performance pieces of Joseph Bueys and the video installations of Eija-Liisa Ahtila, among others—examining how posthumanist theory can illuminate, and be illuminated by, artists’ engagement with the more-than-human world. Looking at biological and social systems, the question of the animal, and biopolitics, Art and Posthumanism explores how contemporary art rivets our attention on the empirically thick, emotionally charged questions of “life” and the “living” amid ecological catastrophe. One of the foremost theorists of posthumanism, Wolfe pushes that philosophy out of the realm of the purely theoretical to show how a posthumanist engagement with particular works and their conceptual underpinnings help to develop more potent ethical and political commitments.
Humanism and the Culture of Renaissance Europe
Author: Charles G. Nauert (Jr.)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521407243
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
This new textbook provides students with a highly readable synthesis of the major determining features of the European Renaissance, one of the most influential cultural revolutions in history. Professor Nauert's approach is broader than the traditional focus on Italy, and tackles the themes in the wider European context. He traces the origins of the humanist 'movement' and connects it to the social and political environments in which it developed. In a tour-de-force of lucid exposition over six wide-ranging chapters, Nauert charts the key intellectual, social, educational and philosophical concerns of this humanist revolution, using art and biographical sketches of key figures to illuminate the discussion. The study also traces subsequent transformations of humanism and its solvent effect on intellectual developments in the late Renaissance.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521407243
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
This new textbook provides students with a highly readable synthesis of the major determining features of the European Renaissance, one of the most influential cultural revolutions in history. Professor Nauert's approach is broader than the traditional focus on Italy, and tackles the themes in the wider European context. He traces the origins of the humanist 'movement' and connects it to the social and political environments in which it developed. In a tour-de-force of lucid exposition over six wide-ranging chapters, Nauert charts the key intellectual, social, educational and philosophical concerns of this humanist revolution, using art and biographical sketches of key figures to illuminate the discussion. The study also traces subsequent transformations of humanism and its solvent effect on intellectual developments in the late Renaissance.
The Architecture of Humanism
Author: Geoffrey Scott
Publisher: New York : Houghton Mifflin
ISBN:
Category : Aesthetics
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Publisher: New York : Houghton Mifflin
ISBN:
Category : Aesthetics
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Speculations
Author: Thomas Ernest Hulme
Publisher: London : Routledge & K. Paul ; New York : Humanities
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Publisher: London : Routledge & K. Paul ; New York : Humanities
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Architectonics of Humanism
Author: Lionel March
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Reinterpreting the architectural principles of the Renaissance period. This book presents a fresh viewpoint on the use of symmetry and proportion in Alberti and Palladio with the help of new illustrations and examples. Covering the evolution of the Renaissance tradition into the twentieth century, this book offers a new evaluation which veers from Le Corbusier and the French school and moves toward the continuation and transformation in the Viennese and Chicago practices exemplified by Frank Lloyd Wright and the American school. Lionel March (Los Angeles, CA) is a practicing architect and an avid follower of the Modernist tradition in architecture. He also teaches at the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at UCLA.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Reinterpreting the architectural principles of the Renaissance period. This book presents a fresh viewpoint on the use of symmetry and proportion in Alberti and Palladio with the help of new illustrations and examples. Covering the evolution of the Renaissance tradition into the twentieth century, this book offers a new evaluation which veers from Le Corbusier and the French school and moves toward the continuation and transformation in the Viennese and Chicago practices exemplified by Frank Lloyd Wright and the American school. Lionel March (Los Angeles, CA) is a practicing architect and an avid follower of the Modernist tradition in architecture. He also teaches at the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at UCLA.
Thomas Merton's Art of Denial
Author: David D. Cooper
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 082033216X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Trappist monk and best-selling author, Thomas Merton battled constantly within himself as he attempted to reconcile two seemingly incompatible roles in life. As a devout Catholic, he took vows of silence and stability, longing for the security and closure of the monastic life. But as a writer he felt compelled to seek friendships in literary circles and success in the secular world. In Thomas Merton's Art of Denial, David D. Cooper traces Merton's attempts to reach an accommodation with himself, to find a way in which "the silence of the monk could live compatibly with the racket of the writer." From the roots of this painful division in the unsettled early years of Merton's life, to the turmoil of his directionless early adult years in which he first attempted to write, he was besieged with self-doubts. Turning to life in a monastery in Kentucky in 1941, Merton believed he would find the solitude and peace lacking in the quotidian world. But, as Merton once wrote, "An author in a Trappist monastery is like a duck in a chicken coop. And he would give anything in the world to be a chicken instead of a duck." Merton felt compelled to choose between life as either a less than perfect priest or a less prolific writer. Discovering in his middle years that the ideal monastic life he had envisioned was an impossibility, Merton turned his energies to abolishing war. It was in this pursuit that he finally succeeded in fusing the two sides of his life, converting his frustrated idealism into a radical humanism placed in the service of world peace. Here is a portrait of a man torn between the influence of the twentieth century and the serenity of the religious ideal, a man who used his own personal crises to guide his youthful ideals to a higher purpose.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 082033216X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Trappist monk and best-selling author, Thomas Merton battled constantly within himself as he attempted to reconcile two seemingly incompatible roles in life. As a devout Catholic, he took vows of silence and stability, longing for the security and closure of the monastic life. But as a writer he felt compelled to seek friendships in literary circles and success in the secular world. In Thomas Merton's Art of Denial, David D. Cooper traces Merton's attempts to reach an accommodation with himself, to find a way in which "the silence of the monk could live compatibly with the racket of the writer." From the roots of this painful division in the unsettled early years of Merton's life, to the turmoil of his directionless early adult years in which he first attempted to write, he was besieged with self-doubts. Turning to life in a monastery in Kentucky in 1941, Merton believed he would find the solitude and peace lacking in the quotidian world. But, as Merton once wrote, "An author in a Trappist monastery is like a duck in a chicken coop. And he would give anything in the world to be a chicken instead of a duck." Merton felt compelled to choose between life as either a less than perfect priest or a less prolific writer. Discovering in his middle years that the ideal monastic life he had envisioned was an impossibility, Merton turned his energies to abolishing war. It was in this pursuit that he finally succeeded in fusing the two sides of his life, converting his frustrated idealism into a radical humanism placed in the service of world peace. Here is a portrait of a man torn between the influence of the twentieth century and the serenity of the religious ideal, a man who used his own personal crises to guide his youthful ideals to a higher purpose.