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Essays on Art and Language

Author : Charles Harrison
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0262582414
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Essays on Art and Language written by Charles Harrison and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2003-09-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical and theoretical essays by a long-time participant in the Art & Language movement. These essays by art historian and critic Charles Harrison are based on the premise that making art and talking about art are related enterprises. They are written from the point of view of Art & Language, the artistic movement based in England—and briefly in the United States—with which Harrison has been associated for thirty years. Harrison uses the work of Art & Language as a central case study to discuss developments in art from the 1950s through the 1980s. According to Harrison, the strongest motivation for writing about art is that it brings us closer to that which is other than ourselves. In seeing how a work is done, we learn about its achieved identity: we see, for example, that a drip on a Pollock is integral to its technical character, whereas a drip on a Mondrian would not be. Throughout the book, Harrison uses specific examples to address a range of questions about the history, theory, and making of modern art—questions about the conditions of its making and the nature of its public, about the problems and priorities of criticism, and about the relations between interpretation and judgment.

Framing the Past

Author : Mary Ann Stankiewicz
Publisher : National Art Education Association (NAEA)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Framing the Past written by Mary Ann Stankiewicz and published by National Art Education Association (NAEA). This book was released on 1990 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays presents the history of art education from a variety of perspectives. Traditional and revisionist issues are seen from broad overviews and through specific concerns. Textual analysis, cultural transmission, and prominent philosophies are discussed. Thirteen essays include: (1) "A History of Art Education Histories" (Donald Soucy); (2) "Elizabeth P. Peabody's Quest for Art in Moral Education" (Robert J. Saunders); (3) "From Old to New Scotland: Nineteenth Century Links between Morality and Art Education" (B. Anne Wood; Donald Soucy); (4) "The Massachusetts Drawing Act of 1870: Industrial Mandate or Democratic Maneuver?" (Paul E. Bolin); (5) "South Kensington in the Farthest Colony" (F. Graeme Chalmers); (6) "Rules and Invention: From Ornament to Design in Art Education" (Mary Ann Stankiewicz); (7) "Culture for the Masses: Art Education and Progressive Reforms, 1880-1917" (Patricia M. Amburgy); (8) "Art Education in the Twentieth Century: A History of Ideas" (Arthur Efland); (9) "Memory Drawing and Visualization in the Teaching of Robert Catterson-Smith and Marion Richardson" (John Swift); (10) "Art Education Curriculum in British Columbia between the Wars: Official Prescription--Unofficial Interpretation" (Anthony W. Rogers); (11) "Educating in Contemporary Art: The First Decade of the London Institute of Contemporary Arts" (David J. Thistlewood); (12) "Cultural Factors in Art Education History: A Study of English and French Quebec, 1940-1980" (Suzanne Lemerise; Leah Sherman); and (13) "A Developmental History of Art Education" (Diana Korzenik). An index is included. (MM)

Essays on Art and Language

Author : Charles Harrison
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262582414
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (824 download)

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Download or read book Essays on Art and Language written by Charles Harrison and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2003-09-12 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical and theoretical essays by a long-time participant in the Art & Language movement. These essays by art historian and critic Charles Harrison are based on the premise that making art and talking about art are related enterprises. They are written from the point of view of Art & Language, the artistic movement based in England—and briefly in the United States—with which Harrison has been associated for thirty years. Harrison uses the work of Art & Language as a central case study to discuss developments in art from the 1950s through the 1980s. According to Harrison, the strongest motivation for writing about art is that it brings us closer to that which is other than ourselves. In seeing how a work is done, we learn about its achieved identity: we see, for example, that a drip on a Pollock is integral to its technical character, whereas a drip on a Mondrian would not be. Throughout the book, Harrison uses specific examples to address a range of questions about the history, theory, and making of modern art—questions about the conditions of its making and the nature of its public, about the problems and priorities of criticism, and about the relations between interpretation and judgment.

Conceptual Art and Painting

Author : Charles Harrison
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262582407
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (824 download)

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Download or read book Conceptual Art and Painting written by Charles Harrison and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'Conceptual Art and Painting', a companion to his 'Essays on Art and Language', Charles Harrison reconsiders Conceptual Art in light of renewed interest in the original movement and of the various forms of 'neo-Conceptual' art--Publisher's description.

Still Looking

Author : John Updike
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 014192182X
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Still Looking written by John Updike and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2006-02-23 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Still Looking, John Updike has collected together his thoughts and observations on American art to produce an eye-opening follow-up to his 1989 art criticism classic Just Looking. Beginning with early American portraits and landscapes, he goes on to extol two late-nineteenth-century masters, Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins, considers the eccentric pre-modern painter and graphic artist James McNeill Whistler, discusses the competing American Impressionists and Realists of the early twentieth century - and concludes with appreciations of the art of Edward Hopper, Jackson Pollock and Andy Warhol. The resulting collection of essays is proof that Updike is still looking and seeing what only he can describe. 'As a writer Updike can do anything he wants' Margaret Atwood 'John Updike writes with a steady brilliance about the world out there' Guardian

Keeping an Eye Open

Author : Julian Barnes
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101874791
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Keeping an Eye Open written by Julian Barnes and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary collection of essays on the great masters of nineteenth- and twentieth-century art—from the Booker Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Sense of an Ending. “An engaging and empathetic volume.” —The New York Times Book Review As Julian Barnes notes: “Flaubert believed that it was impossible to explain one art form in terms of another, and that great paintings required no words of explanation. Braque thought the ideal state would be reached when we said nothing at all in front of a painting … But it is a rare picture that stuns, or argues, us into silence. And if one does, it is only a short time before we want to explain and understand the very silence into which we have been plunged.” This is the exact dynamic that informs his new book. In his 1989 novel A History of the World in 10½ Chapters, Barnes had a chapter on Géricault’s The Raft of the Medusa, and since then he has written about many great masters of art, including Delacroix, Manet, Fantin-Latour, Cézanne, Degas, Redon, Bonnard, Vuillard, Vallotton, Braque, Magritte, Oldenburg, Lucian Freud and Howard Hodgkin. The seventeen essays gathered here help trace the arc from Romanticism to Realism and into Modernism; they are adroit, insightful and, above all, a true pleasure to read.

Essays on Art & Language

Author : Charles Harrison
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9780631178170
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (781 download)

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Download or read book Essays on Art & Language written by Charles Harrison and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical and theoretical essays by a long-time participant in the Art & Language movement.

Art and Objecthood

Author : Michael Fried
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226263199
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (631 download)

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Download or read book Art and Objecthood written by Michael Fried and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1998-04-18 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much acclaimed and highly controversial, Michael Fried's art criticism defines the contours of late modernism in the visual arts. This volume contains 27 pieces--uncompromising, exciting, and impassioned writings, aware of their transformative power during a time of intense controversy about the nature of modernism and the aims and essence of advanced painting and sculpture. 16 color plates. 72 halftones.

Essays on Mexican Art

Author : Octavio Paz
Publisher : Harvest Books
ISBN 13 : 9780156000611
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Essays on Mexican Art written by Octavio Paz and published by Harvest Books. This book was released on 1995-01 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays discuss pre-Columbian art, the influence of European art on the Mexican muralists, and the abstract art of Tamayo

The Art and Language of Power in Renaissance Florence

Author : Amy R. Bloch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780772756596
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (565 download)

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Download or read book The Art and Language of Power in Renaissance Florence written by Amy R. Bloch and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume celebrates the scholarship of Alison Brown, emeritus professor in the Department of History at Royal Holloway, University of London. A pre-eminent historian of the Renaissance, Professor Brown has, over a long and ongoing career, produced a stream of books and essays on the intellectual, cultural, and political history of Renaissance Florence and Italy. Her innovative and wide-ranging studies have made her the most authoritative interpreter of Florence's evolution from fifteenth-century republic to sixteenth-century principate. At the centre of her re-evaluation of this complex and dramatic story are her many studies of the Medici and their own evolution over several generations from citizen bankers to skillful patrons, manipulators of factional networks, "masters of the shop," and quasi-princes. Her research has brought new perspectives not only to politics and the nature of the Florentine state, but also to the period's intellectual and religious history--in particular the impact of the rediscovery of Lucretius--and the great ferment of political thought from the humanists to Savonarola, Machiavelli, and Guicciardini. Professor Brown's vibrant and original inquiries, grounded both in Florence's archival treasures and in the rich intellectual and artistic traditions of Renaissance Italy, deftly interweave politics, culture, and ideas to yield novel and eye-opening interpretations. The essays in this book by Professor Brown's friends and colleagues find inspiration in the themes she has explored and in her dedication to the highest aims and most exacting standards of historical research. The contributions focus on a wide variety of topics, including politics and political thought, family life, art, philosophy, law, and humanism. In providing a portrait of Renaissance studies today as a dynamic field influenced in myriad ways by Professor Brown's insights and methods, the volume is a tribute to the far-reaching influence of her scholarship."--

Art Essays

Author : Alexandra Kingston-Reese
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609388119
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Art Essays written by Alexandra Kingston-Reese and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2021-12-15 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art Essays is a passionate collection of the best essays on the visual arts written by contemporary novelists. With an introduction by literary critic and editor Alexandra Kingston-Reese, Art Essays is an enthralling vision of a new wave of literary essays shaping contemporary culture.

Essays on Literature and Art

Author : Walter Pater
Publisher : J M Dent & Sons Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780460870092
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Essays on Literature and Art written by Walter Pater and published by J M Dent & Sons Limited. This book was released on 1990 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Looking at the Overlooked

Author : Norman Bryson
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1780232527
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Looking at the Overlooked written by Norman Bryson and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this, the only up-to-date critical work on still life painting in any language, Norman Bryson analyzes the origins, history and logic of still life, one of the most enduring forms of Western painting. The first essay is devoted to Roman wall-painting while in the second the author surveys a major segment in the history of still life, from seventeenth-century Spanish painting to Cubism. The third essay tackles the controversial field of seventeenth-century Dutch still life. Bryson concludes in the final essay that the persisting tendency to downgrade the genre of still life is profoundly rooted in the historical oppression of women. In Looking at the Overlooked, Norman Bryson is at his most brilliant. These superbly written essays will stimulate us to look at the entire tradition of still life with new and critical eyes.

The Lure and the Truth of Painting

Author : Yves Bonnefoy
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226064444
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (644 download)

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Download or read book The Lure and the Truth of Painting written by Yves Bonnefoy and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1995-11 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Always fascinated in his poetry by the nature of color and light and the power of the image, Bonnefoy continues to pursue these themes in his discussion of the lure and truth of representation. He sees the painter as a poet whose language is visual, and he seeks to find out what visual artists can teach those who work with words.

Essays in the Philosophy of Art

Author : R. G. Collingwood
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1528766849
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (287 download)

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Download or read book Essays in the Philosophy of Art written by R. G. Collingwood and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2020-10-16 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published posthumously in 1964, this volume contains a fantastic collection of essays by R. G. Collingwood on the subject of art and it's relationship with philosophy. Robin George Collingwood, FBA (1889 – 1943) was an English historian, philosopher, and archaeologist most famous for his philosophical works including “The Principles of Art” (1938) and the posthumously-published “The Idea of History” (1946). This fascinating volume will appeal to those with an interest in Collingwood's seminal work, and is not to be missed by students of philosophy and art. Contents include: “Ruskin not a Philosophical Writer”, “Ruskin's Attitude towards Philosophy”, “On the Philosophy of Non-Philosophers”, “Logicism and Historicism”, “Ruskin as Historicist”, “The Anti-Historicism of Ruskin's Contemporaries”, “The Unity of the Spirit: Corollaries and Illustrations”, “Ruskin and Browning”, etc. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume today in an affordable, modern edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.

Politics and the English Language

Author : George Orwell
Publisher : Renard Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1913724271
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book Politics and the English Language written by George Orwell and published by Renard Press Ltd. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In Politics and the English Language, the second in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell takes aim at the language used in politics, which, he says, ‘is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind’. In an age where the language used in politics is constantly under the microscope, Orwell’s Politics and the English Language is just as relevant today, and gives the reader a vital understanding of the tactics at play. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times

Always Looking

Author : John Updike
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307961834
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book Always Looking written by John Updike and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2012-11-27 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dazzling collection of “remarkably elegant essays” (Newsday) on art—and the companion volume to the celebrated Just Looking and Still Looking—from one of the most gifted American writers of the twentieth century. In this book, readers are treated to a collection in which “the psychological concerns of the novelist drive the eye from work to work until a deep understanding of the art emerges” (The New York Times Book Review). Always Looking opens with “The Clarity of Things,” the Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities for 2008. Here, in looking closely at individual works by Copley, Homer, Eakins, Norman Rockwell, and others, the author teases out what is characteristically “American” in American art. This talk is followed by fourteen essays, most of them written for The New York Review of Books, on certain highlights in Western art of the last two hundred years: the iconic portraits of Gilbert Stuart and the sublime landscapes of Frederic Edwin Church, the series paintings of Monet and the monotypes of Degas, the richly patterned canvases of Vuillard and the golden extravagances of Klimt, the cryptic triptychs of Beckmann, the personal graffiti of Miró, the verbal-visual puzzles of Magritte, and the monumental Pop of Oldenburg and Lichtenstein. The book ends with a consideration of recent works by a living American master, the steely sculptural environments of Richard Serra. John Updike was a gallery-goer of genius. Always Looking is, like everything else he wrote, an invitation to look, to see, to apprehend the visual world through the eyes of a connoisseur.