Download or read book Great Paintings written by Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff and published by DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley). This book was released on 2018-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From works by Botticelli and Raphael to Salvador Dali and Frida Kahlo, discover the paintings that have shaken the art world through the centuries and across continents. Great Paintings presents over 60 amazing paintings - both familiar and new. It not only lists some of the greatest works of art but brings them to life with the help of more than 700 photographs and descriptive text. Understand the key features, composition, and techniques that have made these paintings stand out. The book also includes brief biographies of the artists, which provides the background to each artwork and helps readers paint their own picture of the historical and social context behind each masterpiece. Whether you are young or old, an art student or a fan, simply turn the pages of Great Paintings to go on your personal gallery tour of some of the world's best-loved paintings.

Download or read book Out of the Sun written by Esi Edugyan and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insightful exploration and moving meditation on identity, art, and belonging from one of the most celebrated writers of the last decade. What happens when we begin to consider stories at the margins, when we grant them centrality? How does that complicate our certainties about who we are, as individuals, as nations, as human beings? Through the lens of visual art, literature, film, and the author’s lived experience, Out of the Sun examines Black histories in art, offering new perspectives to challenge us. In this groundbreaking, reflective, and erudite book, two-time Scotiabank Giller Prize winner and internationally bestselling author Esi Edugyan illuminates myriad varieties of Black experience in global culture and history. Edugyan combines storytelling with analyses of contemporary events and her own personal story in this dazzling first major work of non-fiction.

Download or read book One Hundred Great Paintings written by Louise Juliet Govier and published by National Gallery London. This book was released on 2010 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Give the gift of art with this beautifully illustrated volume tracing the development of European painting over six centuries through one hundred pictures--each significant and by a different artist

Download or read book World Famous Great Painters written by Vikāsa Esa Khatrī and published by Pustak Mahal. This book was released on 2011 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short life sketches of 56 world famous painters.

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Download or read book Great Paintings written by Karen Hosack Janes and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-09-19 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great Paintings is a sumptuous, visual guided tour of 66 of the world's greatest paintings. Ranging from works by Zhang Zeduan, a 12th-century Chinese master, to modern masterpieces by Rothko and Anselm Kiefer, the paintings are arranged chronologically, providing an excellent visual introduction to the history of art. The book starts with how to "read" a painting. Annotated paintings show how to identify the key elements of a picture. The major part of the book is a magnificent visual gallery of iconic paintings. The story behind each painting is fully explained, unlocking the often hidden meanings of symbols and details. Each painting is then analyzed visually, using pull-out details and overlays, to help the reader understand the key features, composition, and techniques. Artists' biographies and features on historical and social context explore how landmark paintings have been influenced by what has gone before and how they go on to inspire what comes after them. Reading Great Paintings is like being taken around a gallery by a personal guide who helps you to look at paintings-both familiar and new-in fresh and fascinating ways. Understanding paintings has never been so easy. Contents (provisional list of paintings) PRELIMS INTRODUCTION: LOOKING AT ART PREHISTORY TO 15TH CENTURY 1. Quingming Riverside, Zhang Zeduan (Chinese) 2. Lamentation of Christ, Giotto (Italian) 3. The Madonna Enthroned, Duccio di Buoninsegna (Italian) 4. The Annunciation, Fra Angelico (Italian) 5. The Arnolfini Portrait, Jan van Eyck (Flemish) 6. The Baptism of Christ, Piero della Francesca (Italian) 7. The Hunt in the Forest, Paolo Uccello (Italian) 8. Birth of Venus, Sandro Botticelli (Italian) 16TH CENTURY 9. The Garden of Earthly Delights, Hieronymus Bosch (Netherlandish) 10. Great Piece of Turf, Albrecht Du ̈rer (German) 11. Mona Lisa, Leonard da Vinci, (Italian) 12. The School of Athens, Raphael, (Italian) 13. The Sistine Chapel Ceiling, Michelangelo, (Italian) 14. Bacchus and Ariadne, Titian, (Italian) 15. The Ambassadors, Hans Holbein the Younger (German) 16. Spring Morning in the Han Palace, Qiu Ying (Chinese) 17. The Peasant Wedding, Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Netherlandish) 18. Spring, Giuseppe Arcimboldo, (Italian) 19. Birds and Flowers of the Four Seasons, Kano Eitoku ( Japanese) 20. Akhbar Tames the Savage Elephant, Hawa'l, Basawan and Chatai (Indian) 17TH CENTURY 21. David with the Head of Goliath, Caravaggio (Italian) 22. Self Portrait as "La Pittura", Artemisia Gentileschi (Italian) 23. The Judgement of Paris, Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish) 24. Charles I on Horseback, Anthony van Dyck (Flemish) 25. Portrait of Rembrandt, Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch) 26. Las Meninas, Diego Velásquez (Spanish) 27. The Art of Painting (The Artist's Studio), Johannes Vermeer (Dutch) 18TH CENTURY 28. Still Life with Flowers and Fruit, Jan van Huysum (Dutch) 29. Marriage a la Mode: The Toilette, William Hogarth (British) 30. Mr and Mrs Andrews, Thomas Gainsborough, (British) 31. Allegory of the Planets and Continents, Giambattista Tiepolo (Italian) 32. Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump, Joseph Wright of Derby (British) 33. The Death of Marat Jacques-Louis David (French) 19TH CENTURY 34. The Valpinçon Bather, Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres (French) 35. The Third of May 1808, Francisco de Goya (Spanish) 36. The Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, Casper David Friedrich (German) (with inset: The Great Wave off Kanagawa, Hokusai (Japanese) 37. The Hay Wain, John Constable (British) 38. The Fighting Temeraire, J.M.W. Turner (British) 39. The Artist's Studio, Gustave Courbet (French) 40. The Gleaners, Jean-François Millet (French) 41. Olympia, Édouard Manet (French) 42. Arrangement in Grey and Black: The Artist's Mother, James McNeill Whistler (American) 43. The Dancing Class, Edgar Degas, (French) 44. Van Gogh's Chair, Van Gogh (Dutch) 45. La Grande Jatte, Georges Seurat (French) 46. The Child's Bath, Mary Cassatt (American) 47. Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?, Paul Gauguin (French) 48. The Bathers, Paul Cézanne (French) 49. The Waterlily Pond, Claude Monet (French) 50. Lake Keitele, Akseli Gallen-Kallela (Finnish) 20TH CENTURY 51. The Kiss, Gustav Klimt (Austrian) 52. Composition VII, Wassily Kandinsky (Russian) 53. Berlin Street Scene, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (German) 54. Northern River, Tom Thomson (Canadian) 55. Red Canna, Georgia O'Keefe (American) 56. Composition II in Red, Blue and Yellow, Piet Mondrian (Dutch) 57. Metamorphosis of Narcissus, Salvador Dali (Spanish) 58. Guernica, Pablo Picasso (Spanish) 59. Nighthawks, Edward Hopper, (American) 60. Without Hope, Frida Kahlo (Mexican) (with insert: The Scream, Edvard Munch 61. Autumn Rhythm, Jackson Pollock (American) 62. Untitled, Mark Rothko (American) 63. Marilyn, Andy Warhol (American) 64. To a Summer's Day, Bridget Riley (British) 65. The Dance, Paula Rego (Portuguese) 66. Athanor, Anselm Kiefer (German) GLOSSARY INDEX AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Download or read book Modernists and Mavericks Bacon Freud Hockney and the London Painters written by Martin Gayford and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2018-06-12 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martin Gayford’s masterful account of painting in London from the Second World War to the 1970s, illustrated by documentary photographs and the works themselves The development of painting in London from the Second World War to the 1970s has never before been told before as a single narrative. R. B. Kitaj’s proposal, made in 1976, that there was a “substantial School of London” was essentially correct but it caused confusion because it implied that there was a movement or stylistic group at work, when in reality no one style could cover the likes of Francis Bacon and also Bridget Riley. Modernists and Mavericks explores this period based on an exceptionally deep well of firsthand interviews, often unpublished, with such artists as Victor Pasmore, John Craxton, Lucian Freud, Frank Auerbach, Allen Jones, R. B. Kitaj, Euan Uglow, Howard Hodgkin, Terry Frost, Gillian Ayres, Bridget Riley, David Hockney, Frank Bowling, Leon Kossoff, John Hoyland, and Patrick Caulfield. But Martin Gayford also teases out the thread weaving these individual lives together and demonstrates how and why, long after it was officially declared dead, painting lived and thrived in London. Simultaneously aware of the influences of Jackson Pollock, Giacometti, and (through the teaching passed down at the major art school) the traditions of Western art from Piero della Francesca to Picasso and Matisse, the postwar painters were bound by their confidence that this ancient medium could do fresh and marvelous things, and explored in their diverse ways, the possibilities of paint.

Download or read book What Great Paintings Say written by Rose-Marie Hagen and published by Taschen. This book was released on 2003 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rose-Marie and Rainer Hagen provide answers to these and other questions about world-famous works of art. Guiding our eye to revealing details, they also shed fascinating light on fishions and lifestyles, loves and intrigues, politics and people, and transform our encounter with art into an exciting adventure. Book jacket.

Download or read book Great Women Artists written by Phaidon Editors and published by Phaidon Press. This book was released on 2019-10-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five centuries of fascinating female creativity presented in more than 400 compelling artworks and one comprehensive volume The most extensive fully illustrated book of women artists ever published, Great Women Artists reflects an era where art made by women is more prominent than ever. In museums, galleries, and the art market, previously overlooked female artists, past and present, are now gaining recognition and value. Featuring more than 400 artists from more than 50 countries and spanning 500 years of creativity, each artist is represented here by a key artwork and short text. This essential volume reveals a parallel yet equally engaging history of art for an age that champions a greater diversity of voices. "Real changes are upon us, and today one can reel off the names of a number of first-rate women artists. Nevertheless, women are just getting started."—The New Yorker

Download or read book 120 Great Victorian Fantasy Paintings written by Jeff A. Menges and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 120 full-color prints of Victorian-era paintings of fairies, angels, and other benevolent spirits. Includes brief biographic entries on the artists and an alphabetic list of the works. Accompanying CD-ROM contains royalty-free images in JPEG format with Dover Design Manager software for browsing, printing, cropping, and rotating the images.

Download or read book Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists 50th anniversary edition written by Linda Nochlin and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fiftieth anniversary edition of the essay that is now recognized as the first major work of feminist art theory—published together with author Linda Nochlin’s reflections three decades later. Many scholars have called Linda Nochlin’s seminal essay on women artists the first real attempt at a feminist history of art. In her revolutionary essay, Nochlin refused to answer the question of why there had been no “great women artists” on its own corrupted terms, and instead, she dismantled the very concept of greatness, unraveling the basic assumptions that created the male-centric genius in art. With unparalleled insight and wit, Nochlin questioned the acceptance of a white male viewpoint in art history. And future freedom, as she saw it, requires women to leap into the unknown and risk demolishing the art world’s institutions in order to rebuild them anew. In this stand-alone anniversary edition, Nochlin’s essay is published alongside its reappraisal, “Thirty Years After.” Written in an era of thriving feminist theory, as well as queer theory, race, and postcolonial studies, “Thirty Years After” is a striking reflection on the emergence of a whole new canon. With reference to Joan Mitchell, Louise Bourgeois, Cindy Sherman, and many more, Nochlin diagnoses the state of women and art with unmatched precision and verve. “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?” has become a slogan and rallying cry that resonates across culture and society. In the 2020s, Nochlin’s message could not be more urgent: as she put it in 2015, “There is still a long way to go.”

Download or read book Leonardo Da Vinci written by Luke Syson and published by National Gallery London. This book was released on 2011 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new examination of Leonardo's career that illuminates his time as court painter to the Duke of Milan, an experience that fundamentally changed his outlook and his legacy

Download or read book Arts Decoration written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Biographical Dictionary of Painters Sculptors Engravers and Architects written by John Gould and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Painting the Bible written by Michaela Giebelhausen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Painting the Bible is the first book to investigate the transformations that religious painting underwent in mid-Victorian England. It charts the emergence of a Protestant realist painting in a period of increasing doubt, scientific discovery and biblical criticism. The book analyzes the position of religious painting in academic discourse and assesses the important role Pre-Raphaelite work played in redefining painting for mid-Victorian audiences. This original study brings together a wide range of material from high art and popular culture. It locates the controversy over the religious works of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in debates about academicism, revivalism and caricature. It also investigates William Holman Hunt's radical, orientalist-realist approach to biblical subject matter which offered an important updating of the image of Christ that chimed with the principles of liberal Protestantism. The book will appeal to scholars and students across disciplines such as art history, literature, history and cultural studies. Its original research, rigorous analysis and accessible style will make it essential reading for anyone interested in questions of representation and belief in mid-Victorian England.

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Download or read book The Great Painters of China written by Max Loehr and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1980 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: