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Book Synopsis ¿Qué estás mirando? : 150 años de arte moderno en un abrir y cerrar de ojos by : Will Gompertz
Download or read book ¿Qué estás mirando? : 150 años de arte moderno en un abrir y cerrar de ojos written by Will Gompertz and published by . This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ¿Qué es el arte moderno? ¿Por qué se ama o se odia? ¿Y por qué es siempre tan exageradamente caro?Will Gompertz, director de Arte de la BBC, exdirector de la Tate Gallery de Londres y uno de los mayores expertos del mundo, ha escrito una deslumbrante guía que cambiará para siempre la manera en que miramos el arte contemporáneo. Desde los nenúfares de Monet hasta los girasoles de Van Gogh, pasando por las latas de sopa de Warhol y los tiburones en formol de Hirst, este libro nos descubre la historia que hay detrás de las obras, las personas que hay detrás de los artistas y la verdadera magia que esconde el arte moderno.Dirigido tanto a escépticos como a convencidos, ¿Qué estás mirando? resuelve todas las preguntas que siempre nos planteamos y nunca nos atrevimos a hacer. En un sorprendente recorrido por los últimos ciento cincuenta años del arte salpicado de reveladoras anécdotas, Gompertz nos explica en qué consiste la genialidad de Pollock o Cézanne, cómo un urinario cambió el curso de la historia o por qué nuestro sobrino de cinco años realmente no lo haría igual. Original, irreverente y muy accesible, este libro rompe con mitos y prejuicios y hará que nuestra próxima visita a un museo sea menos intimidante y mucho más apasionante.
Book Synopsis ¿Qué estás mirando? by : Will Gompertz
Download or read book ¿Qué estás mirando? written by Will Gompertz and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Will Gompertz, director de Arte de la BBC, exdirector de Comunicación de la Tate Gallery de Londres y uno de los mayores expertos del mundo, ha escrito una deslumbrante guía que cambiará para siempre la manera en que vemos el arte contemporáneo. Desde los nenúfares de Monet hasta los girasoles de Van Gogh, pasando por las latas de sopa de Warhol y los tiburones en formol de Hirst, este libro nos revela la historia que hay detrás de las obras, las personas que hay detrás de los artistas y la verdadera magia que esconde el arte moderno.Dirigido tanto a escépticos como a convencidos, ¿Qué estás mirando? resuelve todas las preguntas que nunca nos atrevimos a hacer. En un sorprendente recorrido por los últimos ciento cincuenta años del arte salpicado de reveladoras anécdotas, Gompertz nos explica en qué consiste la genialidad de Pollock o Cézanne, cómo un urinario cambió el curso de la historia o por qué nuestro sobrino de cinco años realmente no lo haría igual. Original, irreverente y muy accesible, este libro rompe con mitos y prejuicios y hará que nuestra próxima visita a un museo sea menos intimidante y mucho más apasionante. -- Publisher's website.
Download or read book Pop Art written by Will Gompertz and published by FLASH. This book was released on 2022-04-07 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Un Gompertz muy Gompertz. Un texto sobre los precursores del Pop Art y las revolucionarias ideas que dieron pie al movimiento. En este texto, incluido en el exitoso libro ¿Qué estás mirando? 150 años de arte moderno en un abrir y cerrar de ojos, el autor desgrana las obras que marcaron el inicio y posteriormente la consagración del Pop Art, así como la trayectoria de sus autores. Gompertz nos sitúa en diferentes puntos estratégicos del mapa mundial para trazar las vidas de los precursores del movimiento: Paolozzi, Jasper Jones, Robert Rauschenberg, Warhol, Lichtenstein o Richard Hamilton —por mencionar algunos—; y relata con una prosa absorbente el minuto exacto en el que dieron a luz a sus obras más emblemáticas. Esta corriente artística, considerada por algunos como arte «fácil» para una masa pueril, en el fondo no defendía otra cosa que la democratización de la cultura y reivindicaba que no existía un arte elevado, sino que había valor en las imágenes que formaban parte del mundo cotidiano (aunque estas fueran el resultado impersonal de la producción en cadena). Así, una botella de Coca-Cola se elevaba al nivel de una escultura de Bernini. Siguiendo esta tesis, los artistas del Pop Art descontextualizaron los objetos de la sociedad de consumo para romper mediante la ironía y el color con la corriente artística imperante: el expresionismo abstracto. Con un estilo narrativo propio de la literatura, el autor constata su maestría como uno de los mayores expertos en arte moderno y contagia su entusiasmo a lo largo de estas páginas. Una pieza clave para entender que el Pop Art siempre ha estado entre nosotros, pero necesitábamos a los artistas para descubrirlo. «Gompertz ha escrito un enérgico y completo recorrido por el arte moderno». The Independent Sobre el autor se dijo: «A Gompertz lo de aburrir no se le da nada bien». The Times «Will Gompertz es el mejor profesor que haya tenido jamás». The Guardian «Gompertz ha escrito un enérgico y completo recorrido por el arte moderno». The Independent «Will Gompertz un tipo singular. Rápido como la sangre. Y de algún modo un defensor de la claridad en un territorio de opacidades. Entra en faena desde un libro lúcido que tiene algo de síntesis mental de lo complejo. Una exploración que desacraliza con audacia e ironía tanto el cuello duro de la crítica de arte, a la vez que hace su propia crítica desde la orilla de la claridad». Antonio Lucas, El Mundo «Es tan provocador, irreverente, irónico, divertido y políticamente incorrecto como muchos de los artistas de los que habla. Gompertz da un buen repaso (en todos los sentidos) al arte moderno y contemporáneo. Su visión del mundo del arte es inteligente, salpimentada con buenas dosis de humor». Nati Pulido, ABC «Tanta contundencia en las opiniones proviene de Will Gompertz, director de arte de la BBC y considerado una autoridad mundial en el arte moderno y contemporáneo. [...] En realidad, el libro requiere algo más que un simple pestañeo. Se lee más bien como un completo y ameno manual de 472 páginas». Ángeles García, El País «Para salvar la brecha que separa a muchos visitantes de los objetos que contemplan, Gompertz ha escrito precisamente ¿Qué estás mirando?, un ameno recorrido por la creación moderna para que la comprenda todo el mundo». Javier Ors, La Razón
Book Synopsis What Are You Looking At? by : Will Gompertz
Download or read book What Are You Looking At? written by Will Gompertz and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The perfect gift for the art lover in your life. In the tradition of Eats, Shoots & Leaves, Will Gompertz teaches art history with a sense of humor Every year, millions of museum and gallery visitors ponder the modern art on display and secretly ask themselves, "Is this art?" A former director at London's Tate Gallery and now the BBC arts editor, Will Gompertz made it his mission to bring modern art's exciting history alive for everyone, explaining why an unmade bed or a pickled shark can be art—and why a five-year-old couldn't really do it. Rich with extraordinary tales and anecdotes, What Are You Looking At? entertains as it arms readers with the knowledge to truly understand and enjoy what it is they’re looking at.
Book Synopsis What Are You Looking At? by : Will Gompertz
Download or read book What Are You Looking At? written by Will Gompertz and published by Viking. This book was released on 2016-04-07 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is modern art? Why do we either love it or loathe it? And why is it worth so much damn money? Join Will Gompertz on a dazzling tour that will change the way you look at modern art forever. From Monet's water lilies to Van Gogh's sunflowers, from Warhol's soup cans to Hirst's pickled shark, hear the stories behind the masterpieces, meet the artists as they really were, and discover the real point of modern art. You will learn: not all conceptual art is bollocks; Picasso is king (but Cezanne is better); Pollock is no drip; Dali painted with his moustache; a urinal changed the course of art, why your five year-old really couldn't do it. Refreshing, irreverent and always straightforward, What Are You Looking At? asks all the basic questions that you were too afraid to ask. Your next gallery trip is going to be a little less intimidating and a lot more interesting."
Book Synopsis Think Like an Artist by : Will Gompertz
Download or read book Think Like an Artist written by Will Gompertz and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2016-04-12 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn how to jump-start your imagination to conjure up innovative, worthwhile ideas with help from some of the greatest artists in the world. How do artists think? Where does their creativity originate? How can we, too, learn to be more creative? BBC Arts Editor Will Gompertz seeks answers to these questions in his exuberant, intelligent, witty, and thought-provoking style. Think Like an Artist identifies ten key lessons on creativity from artists that range from Caravaggio to Warhol, Da Vinci to Ai Weiwei, and profiles leading contemporary figures in the arts who are putting these skills to use today. After getting up close and personal with some of the world’s leading creative thinkers, Gompertz has discovered traits that are common to them all. He outlines basic practices and processes that allow your talents to flourish and enable you to embrace your inner Picasso—no matter what you do for a living. With wisdom, inspiration, and advice from an author named one of the fifty most original thinkers in the world by Creativity magazine, Think Like an Artist is an illuminating view into the habits that make people successful. It’s time to get inspired and think like an artist!
Book Synopsis A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish by : John Butt
Download or read book A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish written by John Butt and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (abridged and revised) This reference grammar offers intermediate and advanced students a reason ably comprehensive guide to the morphology and syntax of educated speech and plain prose in Spain and Latin America at the end of the twentieth century. Spanish is the main, usually the sole official language of twenty-one countries,} and it is set fair to overtake English by the year 2000 in numbers 2 of native speakers. This vast geographical and political diversity ensures that Spanish is a good deal less unified than French, German or even English, the latter more or less internationally standardized according to either American or British norms. Until the 1960s, the criteria of internationally correct Spanish were dictated by the Real Academia Espanola, but the prestige of this institution has now sunk so low that its most solemn decrees are hardly taken seriously - witness the fate of the spelling reforms listed in the Nuevas normas de prosodia y ortograjia, which were supposed to come into force in all Spanish-speaking countries in 1959 and, nearly forty years later, are still selectively ignored by publishers and literate persons everywhere. The fact is that in Spanish 'correctness' is nowadays decided, as it is in all living languages, by the consensus of native speakers; but consensus about linguistic usage is obviously difficult to achieve between more than twenty independent, widely scattered and sometimes mutually hostile countries. Peninsular Spanish is itself in flux.
Book Synopsis Recollections of My Life by : Santiago Ramón y Cajal
Download or read book Recollections of My Life written by Santiago Ramón y Cajal and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis See What You're Missing by : Will Gompertz
Download or read book See What You're Missing written by Will Gompertz and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2023-03-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artists have learnt to pay attention. The rest of us spend most of our time on auto-pilot, rushing from place to place, our overfamiliarity blinding us to the marvellous, life-affirming phenomena of our world. But that doesn't have to be the case. In his typically engaging style, Will Gompertz takes us into the minds of artists - from contemporary stars to old masters, the well-known to those at the artistic vanguard - to show us how to look and experience the world with their heightened powers of perception. In See What You're Missing we learn, for example, how Hasegawa Tohaku can help us to see beauty, how David Hockney helps us to see colour, and how Frida Kahlo can help us see pain. In doing so we come to know the intoxicating feeling of being truly alive. 'Will Gompertz is the best teacher you never had' Guardian
Download or read book Wide Sargasso Sea written by Jean Rhys and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1992 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A considerable tour de force by any standard." ?New York Times Book Review"
Book Synopsis Faith's Checkbook by : Charles H. Spurgeon
Download or read book Faith's Checkbook written by Charles H. Spurgeon and published by Whitaker House. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ask anything in my name, I will do it." (John 14:14) Charles H. Spurgeon supplies daily deposits of God's promises into the reader's personal bank of faith. He urges the reader to view each Bible promise as a check written by God, which can be cashed by personally endorsing it and receiving the gift it represents!
Book Synopsis The Twilight of the Avant-garde by : Jonathan Mayhew
Download or read book The Twilight of the Avant-garde written by Jonathan Mayhew and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twilight of the Avant-Garde addresses the central problem of contemporary Spanish poetry: the attempt to preserve the scope and ambition of modernist poetry at the end of the twentieth century. Offering a critical analysis of Luis Garcìa Montero’s “poetry of experience,” and the work of José Angel Valente and Antonio Gamoneda, among others, Mayhew challenges received notions about the value of poetic language in relation to the society and culture at large. Ultimately championing the survival of more challenging and ambitious modes of poetic writing in the postmodern age, this volume argues that the cultural ambition of modernist poetics remains alive and well in our age of cynicism.
Download or read book Chinati written by Marianne Stockebrand and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautiful book on the famed Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas The Chinati Foundation, a world-famous destination for large-scale contemporary art, was founded by Donald Judd (1928-1994) to preserve and present a select number of permanent installations that were inextricably linked to the surrounding landscape in Marfa, Texas. This handsome publication, first published in 2010 and now available with a new chapter devoted to the permanent installation by Robert Irwin that was inaugurated in 2016 and a new foreword by Jenny Moore, director of the Chinati Foundation, describes how Judd developed his ideas of the role of art and museums from the early 1960s onward, culminating in the creation of Chinati. The individual installations featured here include work by John Chamberlain, Dan Flavin, David Rabinowitch, Roni Horn, Ilya Kabakov, Richard Long, Ingólfur Arnarsson, Carl Andre, Claes Oldenburg and Coosje Van Bruggen, and John Wesley, as well as by Judd himself. The book also features a complete catalogue of the collection and writings by Judd relating to Chinati and Marfa. Published in association with the Chinati Foundation/La Fundación Chinati
Book Synopsis The Meaning Of Art by : Herbert Read
Download or read book The Meaning Of Art written by Herbert Read and published by . This book was released on 2004-04-01 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Herbert Read'S Introduction To The Understanding Of Art Has Influenced The Taste Of Several Generations. It Provides A Basis For The Appreciation Of Pictures, Sculpture And Art-Objects Of All Periods By Defining The Elements That Went Into Their Making. In Compact And Elegant Form The Book Gives An Illustrated Survey Of The Subject From Cave Paintings To The Canvases Of Jackson Pollock, And Summarizes The Essence Of Schools, Genres And Movements In The History Of Art.
Download or read book The Information written by James Gleick and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of the acclaimed Chaos and Genius comes a thoughtful and provocative exploration of the big ideas of the modern era: Information, communication, and information theory. Acclaimed science writer James Gleick presents an eye-opening vision of how our relationship to information has transformed the very nature of human consciousness. A fascinating intellectual journey through the history of communication and information, from the language of Africa’s talking drums to the invention of written alphabets; from the electronic transmission of code to the origins of information theory, into the new information age and the current deluge of news, tweets, images, and blogs. Along the way, Gleick profiles key innovators, including Charles Babbage, Ada Lovelace, Samuel Morse, and Claude Shannon, and reveals how our understanding of information is transforming not only how we look at the world, but how we live. A New York Times Notable Book A Los Angeles Times and Cleveland Plain Dealer Best Book of the Year Winner of the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
Book Synopsis Cecilia Valdés or El Angel Hill by : Cirilo Villaverde
Download or read book Cecilia Valdés or El Angel Hill written by Cirilo Villaverde and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-09-29 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cecilia Valdés is arguably the most important novel of 19th century Cuba. Originally published in New York City in 1882, Cirilo Villaverde's novel has fascinated readers inside and outside Cuba since the late 19th century. In this new English translation, a vast landscape emerges of the moral, political, and sexual depravity caused by slavery and colonialism. Set in the Havana of the 1830s, the novel introduces us to Cecilia, a beautiful light-skinned mulatta, who is being pursued by the son of a Spanish slave trader, named Leonardo. Unbeknownst to the two, they are the children of the same father. Eventually Cecilia gives in to Leonardo's advances; she becomes pregnant and gives birth to a baby girl. When Leonardo, who gets bored with Cecilia after a while, agrees to marry a white upper class woman, Cecilia vows revenge. A mulatto friend and suitor of hers kills Leonardo, and Cecilia is thrown into prison as an accessory to the crime. For the contemporary reader Helen Lane's masterful translation of Cecilia Valdés opens a new window into the intricate problems of race relations in Cuba and the Caribbean. There are the elite social circles of European and New World Whites, the rich culture of the free people of color, the class to which Cecilia herself belonged, and then the slaves, divided among themselves between those who were born in Africa and those who were born in the New World, and those who worked on the sugar plantation and those who worked in the households of the rich people in Havana. Cecilia Valdés thus presents a vast portrait of sexual, social, and racial oppression, and the lived experience of Spanish colonialism in Cuba.
Book Synopsis Spanish DeMYSTiFieD, Second Edition by : Jenny Petrow
Download or read book Spanish DeMYSTiFieD, Second Edition written by Jenny Petrow and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2011-06-10 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fast and painless way to learn Spanish--now with all new quiz and test questions and a companion 75-minute audio download Spanish DeMYSTiFieD takes the mystery and menace out of learning Spanish by walking you step-by-step through the fundamentals of the language. The book lets you work at your own pace and arms you with the essentials of Spanish grammar in an unintimidating format. You will be able to: Understand basic grammar structures and verb tenses Pronounce Spanish words correctly Build a Spanish vocabulary Communicate with confidence Inside you will find: Hundreds of brand-new quiz and test questions with answer keys, similar to those used in standardized scholastic exams Chapter-opening objectives that give you insight into what you are going to learn in each step Questions at the end of every chapter that reinforce your learning and pinpoint your weaknesses "Still Struggling?" icons that offer specific recommendations for those difficult subtopics
