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How Painting Happens (and Why it Matters)

Author : Martin Gayford
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 0500779457
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book How Painting Happens (and Why it Matters) written by Martin Gayford and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2024-11-12 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on decades of conversations with practicing artists, Martin Gayford offers intimate insight into the practice, meaning, and potential of painting. Painting is an almost inconceivably ancient activity that remains vigorously alive in the twenty-first century. Every successful painting creates a new world, which we inhabit for as long as we care to look at it. Paintings can incorporate profound ideas and paradoxes that can be grasped without words. For those who dedicate themselves to it, the art of painting can become an all-consuming, lifelong obsession. It is a subject on which painters themselves are often the most incisive commentators. Martin Gayford’s riveting and richly illustrated book deftly brings together numerous artists’ voices, past and present. It draws on a trove of conversations conducted over more than three decades with artists including Frank Auerbach, Gillian Ayres, Frank Bowling, Cecily Brown, Peter Doig, Lucian Freud, Katharina Fritsch, David Hockney, Claudette Johnson, R. B. Kitaj, Lee Ufan, Paula Rego, Gerhard Richter, Bridget Riley, Jenny Saville, Frank Stella, Luc Tuymans, Zeng Fanzhi, and many more. Here too is Vincent van Gogh on Rembrandt, John Constable on Titian, Francis Bacon on Velázquez, Lee Krasner on Pollock, and Jean-Michel Basquiat on Picasso. We hear the personal reflections of these artists on their chosen medium; how and why they paint; how they came to the practice; the influence of fellow painters; and how they find creative sustenance and inspirationin their art. How Painting Happens crosses the centuries to give us a wealth of insights into the endlessly compelling phenomenon of painters and painting.

Art Matters

Author : K. Harries
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402099894
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Art Matters written by K. Harries and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-05-10 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years there has been a great deal of talk about a possible death of art. As the title of Heidegger’s “The Origin of the Work of Art” suggests, the essay challenges such talk, just as it in turn is challenged by such talk, talk that is supported by the current state of the art-world. It was Hegel, who most profoundly argued that the shape of our modern world no longer permits us to grant art the significance it once possessed. Hegel’s proclamation of the end of art in its highest sense shadows this commentary, as it shadows Heidegger’s essay. Heidegger’s problematic turn from the philosopher Hegel to the poet Hölderlin is born of the conviction that we must not allow Hegel to here have the last word. At stake is the future of art. But more importantly, if we are to accept Heidegger’s argument, at stake is the future of humanity. But all who are eager to find in Heidegger’s essay pointers concerning where not just art, but we should be heading, should be made wary by Heidegger’s politicizing of art and aestheticizing of politics. Both remain temptations that demand a critical response. This commentary demonstrates the continued relevance of Heidegger’s reflections.

As If Art Matters

Author :
Publisher : alec clayton
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book As If Art Matters written by and published by alec clayton. This book was released on with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Art Objects

Author : Jeanette Winterson
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307363635
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Art Objects written by Jeanette Winterson and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2014-06-24 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In ten interlocking essays, the acclaimed author of Written on the Body and Art & Lies reveals art as an active force in the world--neither elitist nor remote, available to those who want it and affecting those who don't. Original, personal, and provocative, these essays are not so much a point of view as they are a way of life, revealing "a brilliant and deeply feeling artist at work" (San Francisco Chronicle).

Abstraction Matters

Author : Cristina Baldacci
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527521974
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Abstraction Matters written by Cristina Baldacci and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the archaic funerary and sacred stones to the most recent three-dimensional objects, sculpture has been determined by a dualistic tension between the urge for imitation of natural forms (mimesis) and the desire to freely shape autonomous configurations (abstraction). Within such a complex history, the second half of the 20th century has been a particularly intense period. Besides their abstract works, many sculptors developed an extraordinarily rich theoretical discourse. This collection of essays presents some of the most eminent protagonists of this crucial historical moment by focusing on the artists’ “own words”. In their analysis, the contributors have followed three key-notions – “Sensation”, “Idea”, and “Language” – that fruitfully collect different artists under a common conceptual arch and show the aesthetic relevance of abstraction in sculpture. This book addresses high-level undergraduate and graduate students, as well as the scholarly community in the fields of aesthetics and art criticism, art history and art theory, visual, cultural and media studies.

What Happens in Art

Author : Matthew Lipman
Publisher : Ardent Media
ISBN 13 : 9780829015034
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book What Happens in Art written by Matthew Lipman and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on 1983 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Colour

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Colour written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Private Matters

Author : M. H. Mundy
Publisher : Kuyomi Books
ISBN 13 : 1956997008
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (569 download)

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Download or read book Private Matters written by M. H. Mundy and published by Kuyomi Books. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mother in turmoil. A jaded daughter. A community to help them heal… Portia Foster has a big heart—so does her mother—yet something is terribly wrong with their relationship. That’s why Portia decides to take a long break on the farm where her mother grew up. But after a short stay, in the religious and ultra conservative home of her grandparents, she begins to question the longstanding walls that separate her mother from everyone in her family. Portia’s search for answers uncovers a tragedy buried for over forty years. From her discoveries, she begins to see the emotional scars keeping her family apart and the causes of her mother’s turmoil. Urged on by the desire to help her family, this compassionate twenty-seven-year-old sets out on a journey to mend old wounds. Had Portia known how complicated things would get, she might never have started out on her mission to make things better. Luckily, she finds a community to guide her to more than she imagined was possible.

How Turner Painted

Author : Joyce Townsend
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0500294836
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book How Turner Painted written by Joyce Townsend and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed examination of the painting techniques J. M. W. Turner used to create his masterpieces. Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851) was a prolific master of landscape and marine painting in nineteenth-century Britain. His attention to color and atmosphere produced breathtaking images of nature, now immortalized in oil paintings, exquisite watercolors, and works on paper. How Turner Painted guides readers through the artist’s groundbreaking techniques, including experiments with modified paint media, innovative uses of watercolor, and painstaking processes for creating a composition. Author of the acclaimed Turner’s Painting Techniques, Turner expert Dr. Joyce Townsend returns to the subject with two hundred high-quality color reproductions and cutting-edge X-ray photography. Tasmania-based artist, writer, and teacher Tony Smibert also contributes a chapter about Turner from a contemporary painter’s perspective. Gallerygoers, artists, museum educators, curators, art historians, and conservation professionals are sure to treasure this authoritative guide to one of Britain’s most important painters.

In the Fascist Bathroom

Author : Greil Marcus
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674445772
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (457 download)

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Download or read book In the Fascist Bathroom written by Greil Marcus and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Was punk just another moment in music history, a flash in time when a group of young rebels exploded in a fury of raw sound? Greil Marcus delves into the afterlife of punk as a much richer phenomenon and as a form of artistic and social rebellion.

Samuel van Hoogstraten's Introduction to the Academy of Painting; or, The Visible World

Author : Samuel van Hoogstraten
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 1606066676
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Samuel van Hoogstraten's Introduction to the Academy of Painting; or, The Visible World written by Samuel van Hoogstraten and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique seventeenth-century account of painting as it was practiced, taught, and discussed during a period of extraordinary artistic and intellectual ferment in the Netherlands. The only comprehensive work on painting written by a Dutch artist in the later seventeenth century, Samuel van Hoogstraten’s Inleyding tot de hooge schoole der schilderkonst, anders de zichtbaere werelt (Introduction to the Academy of Painting; or, The Visible World, 1678) has long served as a source of valuable insights on a range of topics, from firsthand reports of training in Rembrandt’s studio to contemporary engagements with perspective, optics, experimental philosophy, the economics of art, and more. Van Hoogstraten’s magnum opus—here available in an English print edition for the first time—brings textual sources into dialogue with the author’s own experience garnered during a multifaceted career. Presenting novel twists on traditional topics, he makes a distinctive case for the status of painting as a universal discipline basic to all the liberal arts. Van Hoogstraten’s arguments for the authority of what painters know about nature and art speak to contemporary notions of expertise and to the unsettled relations between theory and practice, making this book a valuable document of the intertwined histories of art and knowledge in the seventeenth century.

Why Photography Matters as Art as Never Before

Author : Michael Fried
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780300136845
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)

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Download or read book Why Photography Matters as Art as Never Before written by Michael Fried and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the late 1970s onward, serious art photography began to be made at large scale and for the wall. Michael Fried argues that this immediately compelled photographers to grapple with issues centering on the relationship between the photograph and the viewer standing before it that until then had been the province only of painting. Fried further demonstrates that certain philosophically deep problems—associated with notions of theatricality, literalness, and objecthood, and touching on the role of original intention in artistic production, first discussed in his controversial essay “Art and Objecthood” (1967)—have come to the fore once again in recent photography. This means that the photographic “ghetto” no longer exists; instead photography is at the cutting edge of contemporary art as never before. Among the photographers and video-makers whose work receives serious attention in this powerfully argued book are Jeff Wall, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Cindy Sherman, Thomas Struth, Thomas Ruff, Andreas Gursky, Luc Delahaye, Rineke Dijkstra, Patrick Faigenbaum, Roland Fischer, Thomas Demand, Candida Höfer, Beat Streuli, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno, James Welling, and Bernd and Hilla Becher. Future discussions of the new art photography will have no choice but to take a stand for or against Fried’s conclusions.

On Christian Perfection

Author : Alonso Rodriguez (Jesuit, of Valladolid.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.V/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Christian Perfection written by Alonso Rodriguez (Jesuit, of Valladolid.) and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

On Christian Perfection. New Edition. [An Abridged Translation.]

Author : Saint Alonso Rodríguez
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book On Christian Perfection. New Edition. [An Abridged Translation.] written by Saint Alonso Rodríguez and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

On Christian perfection [an abridged transl.].

Author : Alonso Rodriguez
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book On Christian perfection [an abridged transl.]. written by Alonso Rodriguez and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Art and Death

Author : Chris Townsend
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857724622
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book Art and Death written by Chris Townsend and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2008-07-29 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This highly sensitive and beautifully written book looks closely at the way contemporary Western artists negotiate death, both as personal experience and in the wider community. Townsend discusses but moves beyond the 'spectacle of death' in work by artists such as Damien Hirst to see how mortality - in particular the experience of other people's death - brings us face to face with profound ethical and even political issues. He looks at personal responses to death in the work of artists as varied as Francis Bacon, Tracey Emin and Derek Jarman, whose film 'Blue' is discussed here in depth. Exploring the last body of work by the the Kentucky-based photographer Ralph Eugene Meatyard, and Jewish American installation artist Shimon Attie's powerful memorial work for the community of Aberfan, Townsend considers death in light of the injunction to 'love they neighbour'.

Your End of Life Matters

Author : Anne Finkelman Ziff
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538110229
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Your End of Life Matters written by Anne Finkelman Ziff and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-08-16 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your End of Life Matters is offered at a time when people are starting to talk more about end-of-life matters. Based on the author’s own experiences and those of others she’s worked with, the book conveys the value of talking about last wishes long before the end is imminent. With the primary emphasis on how to create a successful end-of-life communication of your own, this book weaves stories, text, writing prompts, humor, and exercises into 12 chapters that include answers to key questions including the who? why?, what?, how?, where?, and when? of a potential conversation. She covers Legacy Documents and other issues that might arise when planning for those final days. Ziff has written a “how-to” communication book for readers of all ages, addressing the need, and recommending methods, to do what her parents did, and what she eventually did as well: To communicate, with someone you know you can trust, what the end-of-life matters are that you will want known both before, and when the time (of your death) comes. Ziff has been on both sides of this vital conversation, first as a Listener, and, more recently, as its Initiator, and she advocates the value of both roles. “Let me tell you,” she admits candidly, “the planning ahead is pretty challenging and time-consuming—cataloging my office data, tax and medical information, photos and writings, to say nothing of books, and of clothing I had saved but not used in decades. But the relief—being able to know the talk was accomplished successfully—that’s remarkable! I’m free now to actively get on exploring my bucket list and living my life!”