About Modern Art

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Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300092028
Total Pages : 548 pages
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Book Synopsis About Modern Art by : David Sylvester

Download or read book About Modern Art written by David Sylvester and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Internationally renowned art critic David Sylvester here muses on key artists of the twentieth century and their nineteenth-century forebears. In the process, he offers profound insights into their practice of art and how we look at modern art. Focusing on the spectator's instinctive emotional and physical response to paintings by such artists as Picasso, Matisse, de Kooning, Newman, and Warhol, Sylvester brings an inspiring sense of the relevance and importance of art to life. Essays on Pollock, Twombly, and Serra, among others, were selected by Sylvester to be added to this updated edition. Book jacket.

Francis Bacon

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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520215399
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (153 download)

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Book Synopsis Francis Bacon by : Francis Bacon

Download or read book Francis Bacon written by Francis Bacon and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jointly published by the Hayward Gallery and the University of California Press on the occasion of the exhibition "Francis Bacon: the human body " organized by the Hayward Gallery, London, 5 February-5 April, 1998.

Dada and Surrealism Reviewed

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Publisher : Conran Octopus
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Book Synopsis Dada and Surrealism Reviewed by : Dawn Ades

Download or read book Dada and Surrealism Reviewed written by Dawn Ades and published by Conran Octopus. This book was released on 1978 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Artwriting

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 178 pages
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Book Synopsis Artwriting by : David Carrier

Download or read book Artwriting written by David Carrier and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Artwriting is concerned with texts of recent art critics. The analysis draws on Arthur Danto's theory of interpretation and upon three connected conceptual points: the need to properly identify an artwork; the possibility of conflicting interpretations; and the use of rhetoric in interpretation." -- Overture.

The Sculptures of Picasso

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Publisher : Assouline Books & Gifts
ISBN 13 : 9782843237881
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Book Synopsis The Sculptures of Picasso by : Pablo Picasso

Download or read book The Sculptures of Picasso written by Pablo Picasso and published by Assouline Books & Gifts. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This highly luxurious publication presents the sculptures of Picasso photographed by Brassaï, one of the most important photographers of the twentieth century. An authentic text written for this work in 1948 by Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, the former art dealer of Picasso, is also included. Brassaï met Picasso in 1932 when he was commissioned to take a series of pictures of the artist's studio and of some plaster sculptures done at Boisgeloup for the review Minotaure. Several years later he was again contacted to photograph Picasso's work for the first book published on the subject of the artist's sculptures. Hence, between 1932 and 1946, Brassaï photographed all of Picasso's sculpted works. This long-term working relationship led to a fruitful exchange between the two artists on the respective nature of photography and sculpture, which is reflected in this volume. The Sculptures of Picasso is an atypical vision of lesser known works by Picasso. Indeed, the medium used to depict the sculptures is nearly as unsettling as the objects themselves, and the confusion is emphasized by the contrast between flatness and fullness. An art dealer, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler became a good friend of Picasso's in 1907 when he first visited the artist's studio. Picasso actually painted a now famous portrait of Kahnweiler in 1910. 70 illustrations

Florence Nightingale

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Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781901341027
Total Pages : 356 pages
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Download or read book Florence Nightingale written by Florence Nightingale and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1997-08-15 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing from the Crimea where she nursed wounded soldiers, Florence Nightingale through her letters tirelessly pushed for reforms that would improve the welfare of the troops and recruited volunteer nurses. From her correspondence emerges an extraordinary self-portrait of a complex and contradictory personality, very different from the heroine of popular myth. Illustrations.

A Critic Writes

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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520219449
Total Pages : 391 pages
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Book Synopsis A Critic Writes by : Reyner Banham

Download or read book A Critic Writes written by Reyner Banham and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1999-03-24 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rayner Banham's interests ranged from architecture and the culture of pop art to urban and industrial design. This selection of essays includes discussions of Italian Futurism, Adolf Loos, Paul Scheerbart, and the Bauhaus, as well as the contemporary architecture of Gehry, Stirling and Foster.

Looking at Giacometti

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Publisher : Holt Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 9780805041637
Total Pages : 176 pages
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Book Synopsis Looking at Giacometti by : David Sylvester

Download or read book Looking at Giacometti written by David Sylvester and published by Holt Paperbacks. This book was released on 1997-04-15 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of a Venice Bienniale Golden Lion Award, Looking at Giacometti is a compelling mixture of biography and criticism, including an extraordinary interview with Giacometti. Written over a period of forty years, Looking at Giacometti is a profound response to the art of one of modernism’s greatest sculptors. It takes students from world-renowned art critic David Sylvester’s first visits to Giacometti’s studio in the late 1940s to the author’s prolonged sitting for the artist’s portrait of him in the 1960 and reflections on his complete oeuvre after Giacometti’s death. A compelling mixture of biography and criticism, and including a sixteen-page insert of black and white photographs by Patricia Matisse, this book sheds new light on twentieth-century art and thought.

Art and Pluralism

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1846316456
Total Pages : 539 pages
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Book Synopsis Art and Pluralism by : Nigel Whiteley

Download or read book Art and Pluralism written by Nigel Whiteley and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lawrence Alloway (1926–90) was one of the most influential and widely respected art writers of the postwar years. A key interpreter of pop art, abstraction, and land art, he was also involved with the realist revival and the early feminist movement in art. Art and Pluralism provides close and critical readings of Alloway's writings and sets his work in the context of the London and New York art worlds from the 1950s to the early 1980s. Nigel Whiteley underlines the particular importance of pluralism and its relationship with the artistic value systems that bookended it—formalism and postmodernism—shedding new light on postwar visual culture as a whole.

Transition

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
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Book Synopsis Transition by : Martin Harrison

Download or read book Transition written by Martin Harrison and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this text, art historian Martin Harrison brings the London of the fifties to life, in all its vigour & fertility. Ranging from painting to sculpture & from photography to architecture, he portrays a city in intellectual & artistic ferment.

Late Picasso

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
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Book Synopsis Late Picasso by : Pablo Picasso

Download or read book Late Picasso written by Pablo Picasso and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Recollections of a Military Life

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 460 pages
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Book Synopsis Recollections of a Military Life by : Sir John Adye

Download or read book Recollections of a Military Life written by Sir John Adye and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Looking Back at Francis Bacon

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ISBN 13 : 9780500296479
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Book Synopsis Looking Back at Francis Bacon by : David Sylvester

Download or read book Looking Back at Francis Bacon written by David Sylvester and published by . This book was released on 2022-01-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique portrait of one of the creative geniuses of the 20th century, by the distinguished critic David Sylvester. Controversial in both life and art, Francis Bacon was one of the most important painters of the 20th century. His monumental, unsettling images have an extraordinary power to disturb, shock and haunt the spectator, 'to unlock the valves of feeling and therefore return the onlooker to life more violently'. Drawing on his personal knowledge of Bacon's inspirations, intentions and working methods, David Sylvester surveys the development of the work from 1933 to the early 1990s, and discusses critically a number of its crucial aspects. He also reproduces previously unpublished extracts from his celebrated conversations with Bacon in which the artist speaks about himself, modern painters and the art of the past. Finally, Sylvester gives a brief account of Bacon's life, correcting certain errors that elsewhere have been presented as facts. Divided into the sections 'Review', 'Reflections', 'Fragments of Talk' and 'Biographical Note', Looking Back at Francis Bacon is a unique portrait of one of the creative geniuses of our age by a writer of comparable distinction.

The State of Art Criticism

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135867593
Total Pages : 364 pages
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Book Synopsis The State of Art Criticism by : James Elkins

Download or read book The State of Art Criticism written by James Elkins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-11-13 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art criticism is spurned by universities, but widely produced and read. It is seldom theorized and its history has hardly been investigated. The State of Art Criticism presents an international conversation among art historians and critics that considers the relation between criticism and art history and poses the question of whether criticism may become a university subject. Contributors include Dave Hickey, James Panero, Stephen Melville, Lynne Cook, Michael Newman, Whitney Davis, Irit Rogoff, Guy Brett and Boris Groys.

Vision and Design

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
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Book Synopsis Vision and Design by : Roger Fry

Download or read book Vision and Design written by Roger Fry and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Blessed be Drudgery

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
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Book Synopsis Blessed be Drudgery by : William Channing Gannett

Download or read book Blessed be Drudgery written by William Channing Gannett and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

New Art, New World

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Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300072921
Total Pages : 279 pages
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Book Synopsis New Art, New World by : Margaret Garlake

Download or read book New Art, New World written by Margaret Garlake and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the years following World War II, Britain was plagued by privation, xenophobia, and humiliation from the loss of colonial territories and political power. At the same time, the country was in the midst of a dawning triumphalism, seen first in the Festival of Britain, then in the new Coventry Cathedral, and finally in the international status accorded to British art by the early 1960s. This book sets the visual arts in the social and political context of these complex years. Margaret Garlake establishes the intellectual, historical, and organizational frameworks within which art was made and received by critics and the public. She discusses problems raised by abstract art, links between art and politics (culminating in the Unknown Political Prisoner competition), and misapprehensions concerning art from the colonial territories. She describes such new institutions as the Arts and British Councils, the Institute of Contemporary Arts, and commercial galleries, all of which played crucial roles in sustaining artists and promoting their work. She examines the perception of a national tradition, grounded visually in landscape and place but heavily influenced by politics. And she investigates the negotiations undertaken by artists and critics sensitive to the nuances of tradition to respond to the impact of an international, American- oriented art. Finally, Garlake focuses on the broad themes within which many artists worked, including public art, landscape, the city, and the human body as mother, sex object, survivor, or worker.