Author : Jon Harris
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,83 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Painters
ISBN : 9780718895327
Over more than half a century Jon Harris has produced a remarkable body of work. At its heart are his images of Cambridge where he has lived and worked since 1961. Artist about Cambridge is a selection from those images, chosen to show something of the range and quality of his roving eye.
Author : Paul G. Bahn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 46,96 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780521454735
Beautifully illustrated in color with many rare and unique photographs, prints, and drawings, "The Cambridge Illustrated History of Prehistoric Art" presents the first balanced and truly worldwide survey of prehistoric art. A fascinating study of an often neglected area, the book is a powerful combination of illustration and analysis. 164 color plates. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author : Judith Seligson
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 814 pages
File Size : 22,73 MB
Release : 2021-03-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1527567230
Gaps and the Creation of Ideas: An Artist’s Book is a portrait of the space between things, whether they be neurons, quotations, comic-book frames, or fragments in a collage. This twenty-year project is an artist’s book that juxtaposes quotations and images from hundreds of artists and writers with the author’s own thoughts. Using Adobe InDesign® for composition and layout, the author has structured the book to show analogies among disparate texts and images. There have always been gaps, but a focus on the space between things is virtually synonymous with modernity. Often characterized as a break, modernity is a story of gaps. Around 1900, many independent strands of gap thought and experience interacted and interwove more intricately. Atoms, textiles, theories, women, Jews, collage, poetry, patchwork, and music figure prominently in these strands. The gap is a ubiquitous phenomenon that crosses the boundaries of neuroscience, rabbinic thinking, modern literary criticism, art, popular culture, and the structure of matter. This book explores many subjects, but it is ultimately a work of art.
Author : Salim Kemal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 19,53 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780521445986
The first volume in the series Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and the Arts offers a range of responses by distinguished philosophers and art historians to some crucial issues generated by the relationship between the art object and language in art history. Each of the chapters in this volume is a searching response to theoretical and practical questions in terms accessible to readers of all human science disciplines. The editors, one a philosopher and one an art historian, provide an introductory chapter which outlines the themes of the volume and explicates the terms in which they are discussed. The contributors open new avenues of enquiry involving concepts of 'presence', 'projective properties', visual conventions and syntax, and the appropriateness of figurative language in accounting for visual art. The issues they discuss will challenge the boundaries to thought that some contemporary theorising sustains.
Author : Rosemary Lambert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 21,28 MB
Release : 1981-04-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780521296229
The twentieth century has seen great and rapid changes in society and in art. Artists have challenged all the traditional ways of seeing and depicting the world. They have grouped together in a bewildering series of movements, or followed individual and sometimes baffling preoccupations. In Rosemary Lambert's The Twentieth Century, the art lover is helped through the maze. Key works from Cubism and Fauvism to Pop Art and Photo Realism, from Picasso and Braque to the Bauhaus and beyond, are explored in non-technical language. The reader is conveyed by the author's own enthusiasm towards the discovery of many fascinating parallels in the painting, sculpture and architecture of this century.
Author : James Fox
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 45,21 MB
Release : 2015-07-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 1107105870
Overturning decades of scholarly orthodoxies, James Fox makes a bold new argument about the First World War's cultural consequences.
Author : Richard Eldridge
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 30,39 MB
Release : 2003-09-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780521805216
Richard Eldridge presents a clear and compact survey of philosophical theories of the nature and significance of art. Drawing on materials from classical and contemporary philosophy as well as from literary theory and art criticism, he explores the representational, expressive, and formal dimensions of art, and he argues that works of art present their subject matter in ways that are of enduring cognitive, moral, and social interest. His accessible study will be invaluable to students and to all readers who are interested in the relation between thought and art.
Author : Marcia B. Hall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 45,67 MB
Release : 2005-03-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780521808095
This book examines all facets of the High Renaissance painter Raphael.
Author : Susan Woodford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 35,68 MB
Release : 1983-01-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780521243711
Looking at pictures can be enjoyable, exciting or moving. Some pictures are easily appreciated at first glance, but others - often the most rewarding - require some explanation before they can be fully understood. This clearly written and enjoyable book is intended to increase pleasure and stimulate thought. It tackles many aspects of looking at paintings as well. Starting with familiar ideas, Dr Susan Woodford moves on to explore subtler, less obvious concepts. For example, she shows how paintings can be appreciated as patterns on a flat surface emotional effect; how ordinary objects can conceal hidden meanings and how knowledge of tradition improves our understanding of revolutionary works.
Author : Paul Duro
Publisher :
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 38,62 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780521495011
The Academy and the Limits of Painting in Seventeenth-Century France is the first study in over a century devoted to the creation of one of the most important European institutions of art, the French Académie Royale. Founded in the mid-1660s, the Academy institutionalised the discourse around painting and thus had an immediate impact on the making of art in France, becoming a decisive influence on painting until the close of the nineteenth century. In the process of forging an identity for itself, the Academy redefined almost every aspect of art - the nature of art training, the sources of patronage, the social standing of the artist, and the place of the arts in national life.
