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Book Synopsis This is Not Just a Painting by : Bernard Lahire
Download or read book This is Not Just a Painting written by Bernard Lahire and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-04-15 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2008, the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon acquired a painting called The Flight into Egypt which was attributed to the French artist Nicolas Poussin. Thought to have been painted in 1657, the painting had gone missing for more than three centuries. Several versions were rediscovered in the 1980s and one was passed from hand to hand, from a family who had no idea of its value to gallery owners and eventually to the museum. A painting that had been sold as a decorative object in 1986 for around 12,000 euros was acquired two decades later by the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon for 17 million euros. What does this remarkable story tell us about the nature of art and the way that it is valued? How is it that what seemed to be just an ordinary canvas could be transformed into a masterpiece, that a decorative object could become a national treasure? This is a story permeated by social magic the social alchemy that transforms lead into gold, the ordinary into the extraordinary, the profane into the sacred. Focusing on this extraordinary case, Bernard Lahire lays bare the beliefs and social processes that underpin the creation of a masterpiece. Like a detective piecing together the clues in an unsolved mystery he carefully reconstructs the steps that led from the same material object being treated as a copy of insignificant value to being endowed with the status of a highly-prized painting commanding a record-breaking price. He thereby shows that a painting is never just a painting, and is always more than a piece of stretched canvass to which brush strokes of paint have been applied: this object, and the value we attach to it, is also the product of a complex array of social processes – with its distinctive institutions and experts – that lies behind it. And through the history of this painting, Lahire uncovers some of the fundamental structures of our social world. For the social magic that can transform a painting from a simple copy into a masterpiece is similar to the social magic that is present throughout our societies, in economics and politics as much as art and religion, a magic that results from the spell cast by power on those who tacitly recognize its authority. By following the trail of a single work of art, Lahire interrogates the foundations on which our perceptions of value and our belief in institutions rest and exposes the forms of domination which lie hidden behind our admiration of works of art.
Book Synopsis A general and bibliographical Dictionary of the Fine Arts. Containing ... explanations of the principal terms used in Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, and Engraving ... historical Sketches of the ... different Schools, etc by : James ELMES
Download or read book A general and bibliographical Dictionary of the Fine Arts. Containing ... explanations of the principal terms used in Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, and Engraving ... historical Sketches of the ... different Schools, etc written by James ELMES and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A General and Bibliographical Dictionary of the Fine Arts by : James Elmes
Download or read book A General and Bibliographical Dictionary of the Fine Arts written by James Elmes and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Appearance of Character by : Melissa Percival
Download or read book The Appearance of Character written by Melissa Percival and published by MHRA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Physiognomy - the notion that there is a relationship between character and physical appearance - is often dismissed as a marginal pseudoscience; however, The Appearance of Character argues that it is central to many disciplines and thought processes, and that it constantly adapts itself to current patterns of thought and modes of discourse. This interdisciplinary study determines the characteristics of physiognomical thought in France during the previously neglected period leading up to the reception of Johann Caspar Lavater's physiognomy in the early 1780s. It establishes a corpus of physiognomical texts, juxtaposing `mainstream' figures such as Buffon and Diderot with a host of minor writers. It then considers the representation of the passions in art, examining the legacy of Charles LeBrun, and revealing an aesthetics of facial representation where the passions are conceived in terms of multiplicity, speed, and nuance. The contribution of the Comte de Caylus to the development of the `tete d'expression' is analysed, as well as the innovations of Greuze in the field of expression. Physiognomy in portraiture is also addressed through the work of La Tour. Facial expression in painting is found to have strong parallels with contemporary acting theory and stage practice. Finally, The Appearance of Character addresses the notion of character, outlining various predominant theories, and analysing the complex relationship between character and passions. In this respect, the study has ramifications for theories of the self and individualism in the Enlightenment and beyond.
Book Synopsis Catalogue de Livres Anciens Et Modernes by : Charles Porquet
Download or read book Catalogue de Livres Anciens Et Modernes written by Charles Porquet and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalogue of Books in Foreign Languages by : A. Dulau & Co
Download or read book Catalogue of Books in Foreign Languages written by A. Dulau & Co and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 1148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History and Its Images by : Francis Haskell
Download or read book History and Its Images written by Francis Haskell and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last four centuries, historians have turned to images in their attempts to understand and visualize the past. In this book, an art historian surveys the various ways that they have adopted for making use of this material and examines the objects that became available to them.
Book Synopsis Bookseller's and printseller's catalogues by : E. and A. Evans
Download or read book Bookseller's and printseller's catalogues written by E. and A. Evans and published by . This book was released on 1820 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Cubism and the Trompe l’Oeil Tradition by : Emily Braun
Download or read book Cubism and the Trompe l’Oeil Tradition written by Emily Braun and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2022-10-17 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The age-old tradition of pictorial illusionism known as trompe l’oeil (“deceive the eye”) employs visual tricks that confound the viewer’s perception of reality and fiction, truth and falsehood. This radically new take on Cubism shows how Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, and Juan Gris both parodied and paid homage to classic trompe l’oeil themes and motifs. The authors connect Cubist works to trompe l’oeil specialists of earlier centuries by juxtaposing more than one hundred Cubist paintings, drawings, and collages with related compositions by old masters. The informed and engaging texts trace the changing status of trompe l’oeil over the centuries, reveal Braque’s training in artisanal trompe l’oeil techniques as an integral part of his Cubist practice, examine the material used in Gris’s collages, and discuss the previously unstudied trompe l’oeil iconography within Cubist still lifes.
Book Synopsis Warfare and the Age of Printing (4 vols.) by : Louis Sloos
Download or read book Warfare and the Age of Printing (4 vols.) written by Louis Sloos and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-01-31 with total page 2008 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An important part of the Dutch national treasure of early printed books from before 1801 on military and related subjects is kept in military libraries and collections. This catalogue contains 10,000 books in twelve different languages dated 1500–1800 from nine different Defence institutions/collections, representing both Army and Navy. By far the largest collections are the property of the Royal Netherlands Army Museum in Delft and the Royal Netherlands Military Academy in Breda. A great if not substantial part of these books is especially of international significance because of the contents, the intrinsic value or as historical objects. It took eight years to trace and describe these books, all of which have been given extensive analytical bibliographic descriptions. The book includes over 2000 illustrations. The book is a project of the Royal Netherlands Army Museum, Delft
Book Synopsis A Catalogue of the Books in the Finch Collection Oxford by : Anonymous
Download or read book A Catalogue of the Books in the Finch Collection Oxford written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-03-03 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalogue of the Library of the Taylor Institution, Oxford by : University of Oxford (Oxford, Town of). - Taylor Institution
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Taylor Institution, Oxford written by University of Oxford (Oxford, Town of). - Taylor Institution and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalogue of the Library of the Taylor Institution, Oxford by : Taylor Institution. Library
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Taylor Institution, Oxford written by Taylor Institution. Library and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The London Encyclopaedia written by and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Display and Displacement by : Alexandra Gerstein
Download or read book Display and Displacement written by Alexandra Gerstein and published by Paul Holberton Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between sculpture and pedestal is at the intersection of a number of art-historical disciplines, ranging from the history of design, architecture, and urbanism to museum studies, yet because of its supporting role it has remained a largely neglected and unstudied field. This book includes essays that range from sixteenth-century Venice to twenty-first-century London, providing a fascinating variety of approaches. The contributors include Victoria Avery, Malcolm Baker, Etienne Jollet, Charlotte Chastel-Rousseau, Sue Malvern, Alison Yarrington, Philip Ward-Jackson, David Getsy, and Jon Wood.
Book Synopsis The Children's World of Learning, 1480-1880. Volume I by :
Download or read book The Children's World of Learning, 1480-1880. Volume I written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-01-30 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published as catalogue 100 of Antiquariaat FORUM in 10 issues between 1994-2002. With an extra issue with extensive indices. The print edition is available as a set of three volumes (9789061941392).
Book Synopsis The Golden Age Revisited: Notes by : Hendrik J. Horn
Download or read book The Golden Age Revisited: Notes written by Hendrik J. Horn and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
