Art And Enchantment

Author : Marina Warner
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0500021465
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forms of Enchantment written by Marina Warner and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of enlightening writing by an award-winning critic that engages with art in its social, political, and aesthetic contexts. Art writing at its most useful should share the dynamism, fluidity, and passions of the objects of its enquiry, argues author Marina Warner in this new anthology. Here, some of Warner’s most compelling writing captures the visual experience of the work of a diverse group of artists—with a notable focus on the inner lives of women—through an exploration of the range of stories and symbols to which they allude in their work. Warner vividly describes this imagery, covering the connection with animals in the work of Louise Bourgeois, the Catholicism of Damien Hirst, performance as a medium of memory in the installations of Joan Jonas, and more. Rather than drawing on connoisseurship, Warner’s approach grows principally out of anthropology and mythology. Accompanied by illustrations of the works being described, Marina Warner’s writing unites the imagination of artist, writer, and reader, creating a reading experience that parallels the intrinsic pleasure of looking at art. This book will appeal to any student of art history, those interested in philosophy, feminism, and more generally in the humanities.

Author : Guy Kawasaki
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241953650
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Enchantment written by Guy Kawasaki and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do companies such as Apple create such enchanting products? And how do some people always seem to enchant others? According to bestselling business guru Guy Kawasaki, anyone can learn the art of enchantment. This book explains all the tactics you need to enchant.

Author : Guy Kawasaki
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9781591842231
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reality Check written by Guy Kawasaki and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Reality Check is Guy Kawasaki's all-In-one guide for starting and operating great organizations - ones that stand the test of time and ignore any passing fads in business theory. This volume collects, updates, and expands the best entries from his popular blog and features his inimitable take on everything from effective e-mailing to sucking up to preventing "bozo explosions.""--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Maxfield Parrish
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486473066
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Worlds of Enchantment written by Maxfield Parrish and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2010-02-18 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maxfield Parrish enjoyed tremendous popularity throughout the early decades of the twentieth century. Bruce Watson, writing in Smithsonian magazine, deemed Parrish the "comman man's Rembrandt." It's said that during the Depression, a Parrish illustration was displayed on the walls of one out of every four American homes. The artist's romantic, richly colored images of winsome maidens and faraway places continue to appeal to modern audiences. Selected from hundreds of the artist's images for books, magazines, and calendars, this original collection spotlights Parrish's work from 1897 through the 1920s. Illustrations include art from publications such as Century Magazine, Collier's, and Scribner's. Numerous advertisements include the famed Edison-Mazda Lamp series, along with ads for Jell-O, Ferry's Seeds, and Swift's Premium Ham. A wide selection of book illustrations comprises scenes from The Arabian Nights, Eugene Field's Poems of Childhood, Louise Saunders' The Knave of Hearts, Nathaniel Hawthorne's Tanglewood Tales, and other treasured works

Author : Donald E. Glover
Publisher : Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780821406090
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book C. S. Lewis written by Donald E. Glover and published by Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the craft and substance of the fictional writings of C.S. Lewis.

Author : Gordon Graham
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199265968
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Re-enchantment of the World written by Gordon Graham and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2007-11 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a philosophical exploration of the role of art and religion as sources of meaning in an increasingly material world dominated by science. Relating themes in the history of European philosophy to topics in contemporary philosophy, Gordon Graham investigates the idea that art has the potential to re-enchant an irreligious world.

Author : Liza Wieland
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 0815653131
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Land of Enchantment written by Liza Wieland and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-05 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Mexico, 1985. Brigid Long Night, a young half-Navajo painter, goes to work as an assistant for the elderly Georgia O’Keeffe. Haunted by the decision to give up her newborn daughter for adoption, Brigid struggles with the direction and inertia of her life. With O’Keeffe’s encouragement, Brigid develops a powerful style, incorporating language and wordplay as well as image in her portrayal of Native American life and her place in it. Atlanta, 1995. Nancy Diamond, an aspiring playwright, encounters Brigid’s work and begins to understand the hidden truths about her own life as the child born of an affair between her white mother and an African American artist. New York City, 2001. Sasha Hernandez enrolls at Columbia University to study filmmaking. She has only recently discovered that her mother, living in Manhattan, is a celebrated painter and sculptor whose work is installed in the sculpture garden at the World Trade Center. In Liza Wieland’s deeply moving novel, these interwoven stories show how art reveals the depth and complexity of human love, in all its betrayals and losses, beauty and redemption.

Author : Ross King
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1632860147
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mad Enchantment written by Ross King and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From bestselling author Ross King, a brilliant portrait of the legendary artist and the story of his most memorable achievement. Claude Monet is perhaps the world's most beloved artist, and among all his creations, the paintings of the water lilies in his garden at Giverny are most famous. Monet intended the water lilies to provide "an asylum of peaceful meditation." Yet, as Ross King reveals in his magisterial chronicle of both artist and masterpiece, these beautiful canvases belie the intense frustration Monet experienced in trying to capture the fugitive effects of light, water, and color. They also reflect the terrible personal torments Monet suffered in the last dozen years of his life. Mad Enchantment tells the full story behind the creation of the Water Lilies, as the horrors of World War I came ever closer to Paris and Giverny and a new generation of younger artists, led by Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso, were challenging the achievements of Impressionism. By early 1914, French newspapers were reporting that Monet, by then seventy-three, had retired his brushes. He had lost his beloved wife, Alice, and his eldest son, Jean. His famously acute vision--what Paul Cezanne called "the most prodigious eye in the history of painting†?--was threatened by cataracts. And yet, despite ill health, self-doubt, and advancing age, Monet began painting again on a more ambitious scale than ever before. Linking great artistic achievement to the personal and historical dramas unfolding around it, Ross King presents the most intimate and revealing portrait of an iconic figure in world culture.

Author : Jeffrey L. Kosky
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226451062
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arts of Wonder written by Jeffrey L. Kosky and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kosky focuses on a handful of artists - Walter De Maria, Diller + Scofidio, James Turrell, and Andy Goldsworthy - to show how they introduce spaces hospitable to mystery and wonder, redemption and revelation, and transcendence and creation.

Author : Patrick Curry
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000853292
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art and Enchantment written by Patrick Curry and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-03-17 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book concerns the experience of enchantment in art. Considering the essential characteristics, dynamics and conditions of the experience of enchantment in relation to art, including liminality, it offers studies of different kinds of artistic experience and activity, including painting, music, fiction and poetry, before exploring the possibility of a life oriented to enchantment as the activity of art itself. With attention to the complex relationship between wonder in art and the programmatic disenchantment to which it is often subject, the author draws on the thought of a diverse range of philosophers, sociological theorists and artists, to offer an understanding of art through the idea of enchantment, and enchantment through art. An accessible study, richly illustrated with experience – both that of the author and others – Art and Enchantment will appeal to scholars and students of sociology, anthropology, philosophy, and anyone with interests in the nature of aesthetic experience.