Lectures On Art

Author : Christian Michel
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 1606066463
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lectures on Art written by Christian Michel and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time, a critical selection of the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture’s highly influential conférences is available in English. Between 1667 and 1792, the artists and amateurs of the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture in Paris lectured on the Académie’s conférences, foundational documents in the theory and practice of art. These texts and the principles they embody guided artistic practice and art theory in France and throughout Europe for two centuries. In the 1800s, the Académie’s influence waned, and few of the 388 Académie lectures were translated into English. Eminent scholars Christian Michel and Jacqueline Lichtenstein have selected and annotated forty-two of the most representative lectures, creating the first authoritative collection of the conférences for readers of English. Essential to understanding French art of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, these lectures reveal what leading French artists looked for in a painting or sculpture, the problems they sought to resolve in their works, and how they viewed their own and others’ artistic practice.

Author : James Barry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lectures on Painting written by James Barry and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The library also has an ed. published: London : G. Bell, 1885.

Author : Herbert Read
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691251843
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Sculpture written by Herbert Read and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-08-15 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning visual history of sculpture from prehistory through modernity This book presents an aesthetic of sculptural art, which has too often submitted to the rule of architecture and painting. Herbert Read emphasizes the essential and autonomous nature of sculpture—“Form in its full spatial completeness,” in the words of British sculptor Henry Moore. The Art of Sculpture provides historical support and theoretical rigor to this conception. Along the way, this incisive and wide-ranging book takes readers on a breathtaking tour of great works of sculpture from prehistoric times to the modern era.

Author : Christian Michel
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 1606065351
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture written by Christian Michel and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture (French Academy of Painting and Sculpture)—perhaps the single most influential art institution in history—governed the arts in France for more than 150 years, from its founding in 1648 until its abolition in 1793. Christian Michel's sweeping study presents an authoritative, in-depth analysis of the Académie’s history and legacy. The Académie Royale assembled nearly all of the important French artists working at the time, maintained a virtual monopoly on teaching and exhibitions, enjoyed a priority in obtaining royal commissions, and deeply influenced the artistic landscape in France. Yet the institution remains little understood today: all commentary on it, during its existence and since its abolition, is based on prejudices, both favorable and critical, that have shaped the way the institution has been appraised. This book takes a different approach. Rather than judging the Académie Royale, Michel unravels existing critical discourse to consider the nuances and complexities of the academy’s history, reexamining its goals, the shifting power dynamics both within the institution and in the larger political landscape, and its relationship with other French academies and guilds.

Author : Alphonse Mucha
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lectures on Art written by Alphonse Mucha and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Ruskin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lectures on Art written by John Ruskin and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas E. Crow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
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Download or read book The Intelligence of Art written by Thomas E. Crow and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses writings by each of Meyer Shapiro, Claude Lévi-Strauss and Michael Baxandall.

Author : E. H. Gombrich
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801815522
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art, Perception, and Reality written by E. H. Gombrich and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1973-09 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores questions relating to the nature of representation in art. It asks how we recognize likeness in caricatures or portraits, for instance, and presents the conflicting arguments and opinions of an art historian, a psychologist and a philosopher.

Author : Oleg Grabar
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691252769
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mediation of Ornament written by Oleg Grabar and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-08-15 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How ornamentation enables a direct and immediate encounter between viewers and art objects Based on universal motifs, ornamentation occurs in many artistic traditions, though it reaches its most expressive, tangible, and unique form in the art of the Islamic world. The Mediation of Ornament shares a veteran art historian’s love for the sheer sensuality of Islamic ornamentation, but also uses this art to show how ornament serves as a consistent intermediary between viewers and artistic works from all cultures and periods. Oleg Grabar analyzes early and medieval Islamic objects, ranging from frontispieces in Yemen to tilework in the Alhambra, and compares them to Western examples, treating all pieces as testimony of the work, life, thought, and emotion experienced in one society. The Mediation of Ornament is essential reading for admirers of Islamic art and anyone interested in the ways of perceiving and understanding the arts more broadly.

Author : Joseph Margolis
Publisher : Detroit, Wayne State U. P
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Language of Art & Art Criticism written by Joseph Margolis and published by Detroit, Wayne State U. P. This book was released on 1965 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: