Author : Emile De Antonio
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 10,91 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
Artists including Andy Warhol, Frank Stella, Jasper Johns, Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman, and Robert Motherwell discuss the postwar art scene.
Author : Elizabeth Prettejohn
Publisher : Association of Human Rights Institutes series
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,71 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300222753
Le revers de la jaquette indique : "With the rise of museums in the 19th century, including the formation in 1824 of the National gallery in London, the art of the past became visible and accessible (in Victorian England) as never before. Inspired by the work of Sandro Botticelli, Jan van Eyck, Diego Velazquez, and others, British artists transformed contemporary art through a creative process that emphasized imitation and emulation. Elizabeth Prettejohn analyzes the ways in which the Old Masters were interpreted by artists, as well as critics, curators, and scholars, and argues that Victorian artists were, paradoxically, at their most original when they imitated the Old Masters most faithfully. Covering Victorian art from the Pre-Raphaelites through to the early modernists, she vividly traces the ways in wich artist such as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Burne-Jones, and William Orpen engaged with the art of the past to produce some of the greatest art of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries."
Author : Jon Thompson
Publisher :
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 12,88 MB
Release : 2006-12-12
Category : Art
ISBN :
Modern art, filled with complex themes and subtle characteristics, is a wonder to view, but can be intimidating for the casual observer to comprehend. In this accessible, practical guide, author and instructor Jon Thompson explores more than 200 works, helping readers to unlock each painting's meaning. Beginning with the Barbizon school and the Realist movement of the mid-19th century and continuing through the 1980s avant-garde, artists including Bonnard, Basquiat, Van Gogh, Picasso, Degas, Warhol, and Whistler are featured. Thompson describes each artist's use of media and symbolism and provides insightful biographical information. A natural companion to Abrams' "How to Read a Painting," this book is a vibrant, informative trip through one of art history's most compelling periods.
Author : Willard Huntington Wright
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 44,92 MB
Release : 2018-04-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3732665844
Reproduction of the original: Modern Painting by Willard Huntington Wright
Author : Susan Behrends Frank
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 40,29 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN :
Luminous works by Childe Hassam, Ernest Lawson, Maurice Prendergast, John Henry Twachtman, are among the 100 seminal works featured in this book showcasing 27 artists. As members of the first generation of American painters to absorb the technique, brighter palette, and subject matter of Impressionism from their French counterparts, these artists transformed the heroic American landscape into a modern idiom, in atmospheric park and beach scenes, urban views, and charming interiors, with particular interest in optical effects, light, and the seasons. This book provides a vivid summary of the movement, starting with its roots in earlier American art and its relationship to French Impressionism. It charts the response of many of these American artists to one of the most beloved movements in 19th century painting. All of the masterworks are here, in full color, from Hassam's sun-drenced gardens to Twachtman's snowy landscapes. It is a celebration of the Impressionist style and it's fresh interpretatiuon of America's landscapes
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 15,62 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Art, British
ISBN :
Author : John Ruskin
Publisher : Carlisle
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 31,19 MB
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : 9781869979317
A new edition of John Ruskin's Of Truth of Water (from Modern Painters) with specially commissioned introductory essays by Heather Birchall, Howard Hull and Mark Haywood, has been published to accompany Ruskin's Pond. Each book has been designed as a separate but related publication and can be purchased either individually or together.
Author : Petr Wittlich
Publisher : Karolinum Press, Charles University
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 19,67 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Art
ISBN :
Dealing with not only specific artists in the context of their national identity, but also with overarching themes in the rise of modernism, Czech Modern Painters is an articulate and well-researched overview of modern art styles from the former Czechoslovakia, focusing on impressionism, the Art Nouveau movement, and cubism. This study covers three generations of artists who changed the landscape of traditional art at the turn of the twentieth century, and looks specifically at how these artists pushed the boundaries of and came into conflict with the work of their predecessors. To do so, Petr Wittlich has combed through each artist's work in art school, galleries, and new art journals, while tracking each individual's own personal style. The result is a beautifully illustrated book that carefully explains the aesthetic theory of each movement, and provides biographical information on the leading personalities of the period and brief, informative captions for each reproduction. Wittlich also investigates the profound influence of capitalism, and the way in which these artists departed from the prevailing aesthetic tastes of their contemporaries. Czech Modern Painters has the magisterial quality of a textbook for students of modern art styles while maintaining readability, making it appealing to art lovers and historians alike.
Author : William Boyd
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 47,67 MB
Release : 2011-05-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1608197263
When William Boyd published his biography of New York modern artist Nat Tate, a huge reception of critics and artists arrived for the launch party, hosted by David Bowie, to toast the late artist's life. Little did they know that the painter Nat Tate, a depressive genius who burned almost all his output before his suicide, never existed. The book was a hoax, and the art world had fallen for it. Nat Tate is a work of art unto itself-an investigation of the blurry line between the invented and the authentic, and a thoughtful tour through the spirited and occasionally ludicrous American art scene of the 1950s. William Boyd is the author of nine novels, including A Good Man in Africa, winner of the Whitbread Award and the Somerset Maugham Award; An Ice-Cream War, winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize and shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Brazzaville Beach, winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize; and Restless, winner of the Costa Novel of the Year Award. Praise for Nat Tate: "William Boyd's description of Tate's working procedure is so vivid that it convinces me that the small oil I picked up on Prince Street, New York, in the late '60s must indeed be one of the lost Third Panel Triptychs. The great sadness of this quiet and moving monograph is that the artist's most profound dread-that God will make you an artist but only a mediocre artist-did not in retrospect apply to Nat Tate."-David Bowie "A moving account of an artist too well understood by his time."-Gore Vidal
Author : Willard Huntington Wright
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 25,27 MB
Release : 2021-04-26
Category : Art
ISBN :
This work presents a fresh perspective on painting in the middle of the past two centuries. Content includes: Ancient and Modern Art Precursors of the New Era Édouard Manet The Early Impressionists Auguste Renoir Paul Cézanne The Neo-impressionists Gauguin and the Pont-aven School Degas and his Circle Henri-Matisse Picasso and Cubism Futurism Synchromism The Lesser Moderns Conclusion
