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Book Painting and Reality

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  • Author : Etienne Gilson
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2023-10-17
  • ISBN : 0691251878
  • Pages : 482 pages

Download or read book Painting and Reality written by Etienne Gilson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-17 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic study of the art of painting and its relationship to reality In this book, Étienne Gilson puts forward a bold interpretation of the kind of reality depicted in paintings and its relation to the natural order. Drawing on insights from the writings of great painters—from Leonardo, Reynolds, and Constable to Mondrian and Klee—Gilson shows how painting is foreign to the order of language and knowledge. Painting, he argues, seeks to add new beings to nature, not to represent those that already exist. For this reason, we must distinguish it from another art, that of picturing, which seeks to produce images of actual or possible beings. Though pictures play an important part in human life, they do not belong in the art of painting. Through this distinction, Gilson sheds new light on the evolution of modern painting. A magisterial work of scholarship by an acclaimed historian of philosophy, Painting and Reality features paintings from both classical and modern schools, and includes extended selections from the writings of Reynolds, Delacroix, Gris, Gill, and Ozenfant.

Book Here  and Here

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  • Author : Vasilis Papageorgiou
  • Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Release : 2009-12-14
  • ISBN : 1443818283
  • Pages : 115 pages

Download or read book Here and Here written by Vasilis Papageorgiou and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-12-14 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Important to the essays here is the possibility of using logos without the negative, restricting and violent aspects of logos. In this respect I speak about affirmation and about tragic awareness rather than about the tragic itself or tragic conflict, as I read texts of a literary democracy that is already here, texts by Don DeLillo, Tomas Tranströmer, John Ashbery and Thanasis Valtinos, or see arrangements by Lo Snöfall. Indeed it is all about arrangements, about knowing how to affirm and doing it rather than using language and its codes in order to transcribe, however accurate this might be. Arrangements say yes, since they do not raise any absolute boundaries. The arrangement is a logos without logos: it is a cosmos, where affirming is a tragically aware cosmetics. Cosmos is neither the world nor any ordering or embellishment of this world, but an openness as the incalculable accumulation of arrangements that say yes in their awareness that they do not amount to an ontology.

Book Art and Identity in Spain  1833   1956

Download or read book Art and Identity in Spain 1833 1956 written by Claudia Hopkins and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-08-08 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richly illustrated, this is the first study in English to explore the longevity of Orientalist art in Spain over a period of 120 years. It highlights how artists in Spain shaped perceptions of Al-Andalus (Iberia under Islam 711–1492) and northern Morocco, from Spain's liberal revolution of the 1830s to the end of the Protectorate of Morocco in 1956. Combining art history with a cultural studies approach, and using exemplary case studies, Hopkins foregrounds the diverse issues that underpin Orientalist expression: reflections on history and the nation, cultural nationalism, gender and sexuality, aesthetics and art commerce, colonialism and racial thinking. In the process, the book challenges over-familiar understandings of Western Orientalism. Beyond Fortuny and Sorolla, many unfamiliar artists and exhibitions are introduced, amongst them Villaamil, whose nostalgic landscapes evoked the loss of Andalusi culture; Bécquer, who celebrated Spanish-Moroccan peace-making through the lens of Velázquez; the Symbolist Rusiñol, whose images of the Alhambra are infused with melancholy; Morcillo, whose extraordinary camp images opened a new space for male subjectivity; Tapiró and Bertuchi, who dedicated their lives to Morocco, and the Moroccan Sarghini, who participated in the state-funded Painters of Africa exhibitions in Franco's Madrid – an annual exhibition that served the colonial concept of a Hispano-Moroccan brotherhood under the dictatorship. This book traces the shifting impulses and meanings of Orientalist expression in Spain. It makes an original intervention in the field of Spanish art studies and contributes new material to the ongoing debates about Western Orientalism.

Book The Mirror of Art  Critical Studies

Download or read book The Mirror of Art Critical Studies written by Charles Baudelaire and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Baudelaire s Revenge

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  • Author : Bob Van Laerhoven
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2014-04-15
  • ISBN : 1605985899
  • Pages : 302 pages

Download or read book Baudelaire s Revenge written by Bob Van Laerhoven and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1870, and Paris is in turmoil. As the social and political turbulence of the Franco-Prussian War roils the city, workers starve to death while aristocrats seek refuge in orgies and séances. The Parisians are trapped like rats in their beautiful city but a series of gruesome murders captures their fascination and distracts them from the realities of war.The killer leaves lines from the recently deceased Charles Baudelaire’s controversial anthology Les Fleurs du Mal on each corpse, written in the poet’s exact handwriting. Commissioner Lefèvre, a lover of poetry and a veteran of the Algerian war, is on the case, and his investigation is a thrilling, intoxicating journey into the sinister side of human nature, bringing to mind the brooding and tense atmosphere of Patrick Susskind’s Perfume.Did Baudelaire rise from the grave? Did he truly die in the first place? The plot dramatically appears to extend as far as the court of the Emperor Napoleon III. A vivid, intelligent, and intense historical crime novel that offers up some shocking revelations about sexual mores in 19th century France, this superb mystery illuminates the shadow life of one of the greatest names in poetry.

Book A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion in the Age of Empire

Download or read book A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion in the Age of Empire written by Denise Amy Baxter and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the production of dress shifted dramatically from being predominantly hand-crafted in small quantities to machine-manufactured in bulk. The increasing democratization of appearances made new fashions more widely available, but at the same time made the need to differentiate social rank seem more pressing. In this age of empire, the coding of class, gender and race was frequently negotiated through dress in complex ways, from fashionable dress which restricted or exaggerated the female body to liberating reform dress, from self-defining black dandies to the oppressions and resistances of slave dress. Richly illustrated with over 100 images and drawing on a plethora of visual, textual and object sources, A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion in the Age of Empire presents essays on textiles, production and distribution, the body, belief, gender and sexuality, status, ethnicity, and visual and literary representations to illustrate the diversity and cultural significance of dress and fashion in the period.

Book Influences of English Art on French Landscape Painting  1802 1872

Download or read book Influences of English Art on French Landscape Painting 1802 1872 written by Benjamin Porter Watkins and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Oskar Reinhart Collection

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  • Author : Mariantonia Reinhard-Felice
  • Publisher : Schwabe
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 720 pages

Download or read book Oskar Reinhart Collection written by Mariantonia Reinhard-Felice and published by Schwabe. This book was released on 2005 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Oskar Reinhart (1885-1965) bequeathed a significant part of his remarkable art collection - chiefly of French nineteenth-century painting but also containing a number of outstanding Old Masters - to the Swiss nation, he did so on condition that the works of art would never be loaned. As a consequence the many very important works in the collection have not been discussed in major exhibition catalogues and have not received the scholarly attention they deserve. This volume, with full entries on the entire collection of 207 works by 45 leading scholars in their field, both American and European, and superb plates carefully checked against the originals, sets out to rectify this state of affairs. Artists represented by several works in the collection that Reinhart made his monument include: Cezanne (11), Chardin (4), Corot (9), Courbet (10), Daumier (20), Delacroix (9), Gericault (2), Van Gogh (5), Maillol (8), Manet (4), Picasso (4), Pissarro (2), Renoir (15), Sisley (2). A well illustrated introduction explains the ideas and context behind Reinhart's collecting and affords insights into his character.

Book Henri Matisse

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  • Author : Catherine Bock-Weiss
  • Publisher : Penn State Press
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 0271035129
  • Pages : 258 pages

Download or read book Henri Matisse written by Catherine Bock-Weiss and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A series of linked essays that considers different aspects of Matisse's life and work, revealing how the artist worked against many of the main tenets of modernism"--Provided by publisher.

Book Arts

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  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1955
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 804 pages

Download or read book Arts written by and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Arts Digest

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  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1956
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 834 pages

Download or read book Arts Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book New Statesman and Nation

Download or read book New Statesman and Nation written by and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Subject Catalog

Download or read book Subject Catalog written by J. Henry Meyer Memorial Library and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pictures and Texts

Download or read book Pictures and Texts written by Ralph F. Bogardus and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Subject Catalog

Download or read book Subject Catalog written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The New Statesman and Nation

Download or read book The New Statesman and Nation written by and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: