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 National Gallery British Art written by Tate Gallery and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book I Know What I Am written by Gina Siciliano and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2019-09-11 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 17th century Rome, where women are expected to be chaste and yet are viewed as prey by powerful men, the extraordinary painter Artemisia Gentileschi fends off constant sexual advances as she works to become one of the greatest painters of her generation. Frustrated by the hypocritical social mores of her day, Gentileschi releases her anguish through her paintings and, against all odds, becomes a groundbreaking artist. Meticulously rendered in ballpoint pen, this gripping graphic biography serves as an art history lesson and a coming-of-age story. Resonant in the #MeToo era, I Know What I Amhighlights a fierce artist who stood up to a shameful social status quo.
Download or read book The National Gallery London written by Uta Hasekamp and published by Koenemann. This book was released on 2019-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Gallery in London has been showing paintings owned by the British nation since 1824. Among the focal points of the collection are paintings from the late Middle Ages, the Italian Renaissance, and the Dutch Baroque, which, like British painting from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, are represented with top works in one of the world's most important galleries.
Download or read book The Public Art Museum in Nineteenth Century Britain written by Christopher Whitehead and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the mid-nineteenth century a debate arose over the form and functions of the public art museum in Britain. Various occurrences caused new debates in Parliament and in the press about the purposes of the public museum which checked the relative complacency with which London's national collections had hitherto been run. This book examines these debates and their influence on the development of professionalism within the museum, trends in collecting and tendencies in museum architecture and decoration. In so doing it accounts for the general development of the London museums between 1850 and 1880, with particular reference to the National Gallery. This involves analysis of art display and its relations with art historiography, alongside institutional and architectural developments at the British Museum, the South Kensington Museum and the National Gallery. It is argued that the underpinning factor in all of these developments was a reformulation of the public museum's mission, which was in turn related to the electoral reform movement. In a potential situation of mass enfranchisement, the 'masses' should be well educated; the museum was openly identified as a useful institution in this sense. This consideration also influenced approaches to collecting and arranging artworks and to configuring their architectural setting within the museum, allowing for displays to be instructive in specific ways. Dissatisfaction with the British Museum and National Gallery buildings and their locations led to proposals to move the national collections, possibly merging and redefining them. Again the socio-political usefulness of the museum was key in determining where the national collections should be housed and in what form of building. This rich debate is analysed with full references to the various forums in and out of Parliament. Part one covers these issues in a thematic structure, examining all of the national collections, their interrelationships and their gradual development of discrete (yet sometimes arbitrary) museological territories. Part two focuses on the individual case of the National Gallery, observing how museological debate was brought to bear on the development of a specific institution. Every architectural development and redisplay is closely analysed in order to gauge the extent to which the products of debate were carried through into practice, and to comprehend the reasons why no museological grand project emerged in London.
Download or read book Raphael written by David Ekserdjian and published by National Gallery London. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the great figures of the Italian Renaissance, Raphael (1483-1520) is unarguably the artist who has been most widely and consistently admired across the centuries. He had an extraordinary and perhaps unrivaled capacity for self-reinvention--as he progressed from Umbria to Florence and Rome--and an ability to draw strength from the other great artists around him, seemingly growing in stature the more daunting the competition became. This insightful, impeccably researched, and comprehensive volume, published to mark the 500th anniversary of Raphael's death, chronicles the progress of his career in all its richness and complexity. Sumptuous production values and generous illustrations go hand in hand with its rigorous and wide-ranging scholarship. The essays explore Raphael's paintings and drawings, his frescoes in the Vatican Stanze, his designs for tapestries, sculptures, and prints, and his engagement with architecture, art theory, and archaeology. Detailed and authoritative catalogue entries examine many of the finest of Raphael's individual paintings and drawings alongside prints, tapestries, and sculpture.
Download or read book The National Gallery of British Art Reproductions With Descriptive Text written by National Gallery of British Art, afterwards Tate Gallery (London) and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beyond Caravaggio written by Letizia Treves and published by National Gallery London. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating examination of Caravaggio and others who adopted his dramatic style of painting The Italian painter known as Caravaggio (1571-1610) claims a place among the most revolutionary figures in the history of art. His intense naturalism, almost brutal realism, and dramatic use of light had a wide impact on European painters, including Orazio Gentileschi, Valentin de Boulogne, and Gerrit van Honthorst. Each of Caravaggio's followers absorbed something different from his work, propagating his stylistic legacy across Europe. In this extensively illustrated catalogue, Letizia Treves introduces the international Caravaggesque movement and traces the distinct artistic personalities of its leading players. Even now, Caravaggio's name overshadows the other talented artists who adopted his approach to narrative painting: the use of theatrical lighting to illuminate a story encapsulated in a single, dramatic moment. Treves explains the innovative and unifying features of these painters' work and how, despite resistance to their style and subject matter, many outstanding Caravaggesque pictures found their way into important collections. Published by the National Gallery Company/Distributed by Yale University Press Exhibition Schedule: National Gallery, London (10/12/16-01/15/17) National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin (02/11/17-05/14/17) Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh (06/17/17-09/24/17)
Download or read book Drawing in Silver and Gold written by Stacey Sell and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-26 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exhibition is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see around 100 exceptional drawings created using the exquisite metalpoint technique. It features works by some of the greatest artists working from the late 14th century to the present including Rogier van der Weyden, Petrus Christus, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Albrecht Dürer, Hans Holbein the Elder, Lucas van Leyden, Rembrandt, Edward Burne-Jones, William Holman Hunt, Otto Dix, Jasper Johns and Bruce Nauman. Works drawn from the British Museum's superb collection of metalpoint drawings sit alongside major loans from European and American museums as well as private collections, including four sheets by Leonardo da Vinci from the Royal Collection.--British Museum website.
Download or read book Durer to Veronese written by Jill Dunkerton and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The authors look closely at a variety of types of painting - including large altarpieces, small domestic, devotional images, diplomatic gifts, furniture, decorations and both intimate and full-length portraits - as well as frescoes, drawings and prints. They provide insights into the meanings of individual pictures and into the purposes they were originally intended to serve, and they explore the social position of the artist in the 1500s.
Download or read book A Catalogue of the National Gallery of British Art at South Kensington written by South Kensington Museum and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The National Gallery of British Art The Tate Gallery written by Tate Gallery and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF BRITISH ART written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The National Gallery of British Art Victoria and Albert Museum written by Victoria and Albert Museum and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Paintings in the National Gallery written by Augusto Gentili and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 623 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together the exceptional collection of paintings found in The National Gallery, London - one of the world's major repositories of paintings and perhaps the most significant in terms and variety and entirety since all the main European schools of painting are represented. Works featured in the book include masterpieces by Titian, Rubens, Rembrandt, Botticelli, Poussin, van Dyck, Vermeer, Manet, Constable, Degas, Seurat, van Gogh, Monet, Caravaggio, Goya and many, many others. In addition to holdings in Flemish art and the largest collection of Velazquez outside of Spain, the gallery also houses one of the finest collections of British art including Hogarth, Gainsborough, Stubbs, Constable and Turner. The works featured in this collection represent the pivot points around which the entire world of European painting from the Middle Ages through the nineteenth century rotates. Sumptuously illustrated with 600 colour plates, PAINTINGS IN THE NATIONAL GALLERY is an invaluable resource for scholars and art lovers alike.
Download or read book The Tate Gallery the National Gallery British Art written by Tate Gallery and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The National Gallery British Art the Tate Gallery written by Tate Gallery and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
