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"The purpose of this volume is to provide today's readers and museum-goers with a tool for orienting themselves in the world of images and learning to read the hidden meanings of certain famous paintings."--Introduction.
Author : Matilde Battistini
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 13,31 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Allegories
ISBN : 9780892368181
"The purpose of this volume is to provide today's readers and museum-goers with a tool for orienting themselves in the world of images and learning to read the hidden meanings of certain famous paintings."--Introduction.
Author : Lucia Impelluso
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 10,30 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780892367726
"The Guide to Imagery series introduces readers to important visual vocabulary of Western art."--Back cover.
Author : Pamela Sachant
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 15,58 MB
Release : 2023-11-27
Category : Art
ISBN :
Introduction to Art: Design, Context, and Meaning offers a deep insight and comprehension of the world of Art. Contents: What is Art? The Structure of Art Significance of Materials Used in Art Describing Art - Formal Analysis, Types, and Styles of Art Meaning in Art - Socio-Cultural Contexts, Symbolism, and Iconography Connecting Art to Our Lives Form in Architecture Art and Identity Art and Power Art and Ritual Life - Symbolism of Space and Ritual Objects, Mortality, and Immortality Art and Ethics
Author : Sarah Carr-Gomm
Publisher : Duncan Baird
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,72 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781844837106
Classical myth and legend - The bible and life of Christ - Saints and their miracles - History, literature and the arts - Symbols and allegories.
Author : James Hall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 18,42 MB
Release : 2018-05-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 0429979568
"A Companion volume to James Hall’s perennial seller Dictionary of Subjects & Symbols in Art. which deals with the subject matter of Christian and Western art, the present volume includes the art of Egypt, the ancient Near East, Christian and classical Europe, India and the Far East. Flail explores the language of symbols in art showing how paintings, drawings and sculpture express man shades of meaning from simple, everyday hopes and fears to the profoundest philosophical and religious aspirations. The book explains and interprets symbols from many cultures, and over 600 illustrations clarify and complement the text. There are numbered references throughout the text to the sacred Iitcra-1 ture, myths and legends in which the symbols had their origins. Details of English translations of the works are in the bibliography. The book includes an appendix of the transcription of Chinese, notes and references, bibliography, chronological tables and index."
Author : Matthew Wilson
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,84 MB
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 0500295743
Thoroughly user-friendly and covering a broad historical sweep, this book is a reference guide to fifty of the most frequently occurring symbols in global art history. Iconography, or the study of symbols—be they animals, artifacts, plants, geometric shapes, or gestures—is an essential aspect of interpreting art. One of the most consistent features of human society throughout time has been the use of visual symbols, which often act as substitutions for the written word, crossing dialects and borders and uniting understandings of the world through a shared language. Incorporating and analyzing a wealth of cultures, Symbols in Art serves as a reference guide to fifty of the most frequently occurring symbols in global art history from 2300 BCE to the present day, exploring their subtle implications and covert meanings. Entries devoted to specific symbols expose nuances of meaning and historical use, from easily identifiable symbols across the globe to those used to speak to specific cultural groups. This book exposes such intriguing correspondences as the symbolism of grapevines in a fifteenth-century painting by Giovanni Bellini compared to the images in Yinka Shonibare’s Last Supper. Complete with a user-friendly glossary of symbols and a well-selected array of illustrations, this book illuminates common and thought-provoking symbols in art across history and the globe, functioning as an indispensable tool for interpretation.
Author : Silvia Malaguzzi
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 39,67 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Dinners and dining in art
ISBN : 9780892369140
Malaguzzi's work describes the significance of food and feasts through the ages and discusses how artists have created allegories of gluttony and odes to the sense of taste, using, for example, artfully positioned fruits and vegetables in the still-life genre in painting.
Author : Brenda Machosky
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 19,7 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0823242846
Structures of Appearing: Allegory and the Work of Literature is an interdisciplinary study that revises the history of allegory through a phenomenological approach. The book also takes on the history of aesthetics as an ideology that has long subjugated literature (and art generally) to criteria of judgment that are philosophical rather than literary.
Author : Michelle Facos
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 25,23 MB
Release : 2009-03-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520255828
The Symbolist art movement of the late 19th century forms an important bridge between Impressionism and Modernism. But because Symbolism emphasizes ideas over objects and events, it has suffered from conflicting definitions. In this book, Michelle Facos offers a comprehensive description of this challenging subject.
Author : Antonella Fuga
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 12,93 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780892368600
This latest volume in the popular Guide to Imagery series discusses the materials and processes used in eight media: painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, mosaics, ceramics, glass, and metalwork. The book provides art enthusiasts with new insights into the creation of many of the world's great masterpieces.