Painting And Presence

Author : Anthony Rudd
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192856286
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Painting and Presence written by Anthony Rudd and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-18 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is concerned with why (or whether) paintings have value: why they might be worth creating and attending to. The author traces an understanding of painting as ontologically revelatory from the theology of the Byzantine Icon to classical Chinese appreciations of landscape painting, and Phenomenologists inspired by European Modernist art.

Author : Richard Cork
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780300170368
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Healing Presence of Art written by Richard Cork and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between birth and death, many of life's most critical moments occur in hospital, and they deserve to take place in surroundings that match their significance. In this spirit, from the early Renaissance through to the modern period, artists have made immensely powerful work in hospitals across the western world, enhancing the environments where patients and medical staff strive towards better health. Distinguished art historian Richard Cork became fascinated by the extraordinary richness of art produced in hospitals, encompassing work by many of the great masters - Piero della Francesca, Rogier van der Weyden, El Greco, William Hogarth, Jacques-Louis David, Vincent van Gogh, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, Fernand Leger, Marc Chagall and Naum Gabo. Cork's brilliant survey discovers the astonishing variety of images found in medical settings, ranging from dramatic confrontations with suffering (Matthias Grunewald at Isenheim) to the most sublime celebrations of heavenly ecstasy (Giovanni Battista Tiepolo in Venice).In the process, he reveals art's prodigious ability to humanize our hospitals, alleviate their clinical bleakness and leave a profound, lasting impression on patients, staff and visitors. -- Publisher's blurb.

Author : Hans Belting
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226042152
Total Pages : 692 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Likeness and Presence written by Hans Belting and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the Renaissance and Reformation, holy images were treated not as "art" but as objects of veneration which possessed the tangible presence of the Holy. the faithful believed that these images served as relics and were able to work miracles, deliver oracles, and bring victory to the battlefield. In this magisterial book, Hans Belting traces the long history of the sacral image and its changing role--from surrogate for the represented image to an original work of art--in European culture. Likeness and Presence looks at the beliefs, superstitions, hopes, and fears that come into play as people handle and respond to sacred images, and presents a compelling interpretation of the place of the image in Western history. -- Back cover

Author : Ann Younger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781736304914
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reflecting in His Presence written by Ann Younger and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sharon Macdonald
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470695366
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exhibition Experiments written by Sharon Macdonald and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exhibition Experiments is a lively collection that considers experiments with museological form that challenge our understanding of - and experience with - museums. Explores examples of museum experimentalism in light of cutting-edge museum theory Draws on a range of global and topical examples, including museum experimentation, exhibitionary forms, the fate of conventional notions of ‘object’ and ‘representation’, and the impact of these changes Brings together an international group of art historians, anthropologists, and sociologists to question traditional disciplinary boundaries Considers the impact of technology on the museum space tackles a range of examples of experimentalism from many different countries, including Australia, Austria, Germany, Israel, Luxembourg, Sweden, the UK and the US Examines the changes and challenging new possibilities facing museum studies

Author : Deborah DeWit Marchant
Publisher : William James
ISBN 13 : 9781590281963
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Presence of Books written by Deborah DeWit Marchant and published by William James. This book was released on 2007 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A collection of the work of images centered on the theme of reading and books by Northwest artist Deborah DeWit Marchant with an introduction and text by Northwest poet Kim Stafford"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Wu Hung
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1861899769
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Story of Ruins written by Wu Hung and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This richly illustrated book examines the changing significance of ruins as vehicles for cultural memory in Chinese art and visual culture from ancient times to the present. The story of ruins in China is different from but connected to “ruin culture” in the West. This book explores indigenous Chinese concepts of ruins and their visual manifestations, as well as the complex historical interactions between China and the West since the eighteenth century. Wu Hung leads us through an array of traditional and contemporary visual materials, including painting, architecture, photography, prints, and cinema. A Story of Ruins shows how ruins are integral to traditional Chinese culture in both architecture and pictorial forms. It traces the changes in their representation over time, from indigenous methods of recording damage and decay in ancient China, to realistic images of architectural ruins in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, to the strong interest in urban ruins in contemporary China, as shown in the many artworks that depict demolished houses and decaying industrial sites. The result is an original interpretation of the development of Chinese art, as well as a unique contribution to global art history.

Author : Smithsonian American Art Museum
Publisher : Giles
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Our America written by Smithsonian American Art Museum and published by Giles. This book was released on 2014 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how one group of Latin American artists express their relationship to American art, history and culture.

Author : Andrea Scher
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0063073838
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wonder Seeker written by Andrea Scher and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The PERFECT guide to help us slow down and find the beauty and wonder right in front of us.”—Brené Brown Spark your sense of wonder and lift your spirits with this collection of fun, creative activities and ideas to help cultivate daily joy, illustrated with full-color photographs, artful watercolors, and inspiring stories. Do you remember the first time you saw the night sky blanketed in stars? Or that feeling of magic when you found your first sand dollar on the beach? Maybe it’s when you rode a bicycle for the first time and it felt like flying. Wonder taps us into the joy of being alive, opening our eyes to how much beauty there is in the world and how life can surprise us in the most delightful of ways. Wonder Seeker reminds us that no one is too busy (or too old) to experience daily gratitude and delight. Filled with 52 fun, easy, and incredibly creative prompts and activities, this guide to joy helps us to step out of our ordinary lives, even for just a moment or two each day, to witness the magic all around us. Andrea provides simple practices that bridge creativity and mindfulness and allow the imagination to play. These activities can be done anywhere and can be enjoyed solo, or with friends, family, and even strangers. The fun activities and suggestions in Wonder Seeker include: Taking a curiosity walk Writing a banana love note Going on a wonder date Writing a paint chip poem Hosting a bubble flash mob Making a wish tree Choosing a superhero name And much, much more! As Andrea makes clear, you don’t need to be an artist or consider yourself “creative.” All you need is an open heart and a clear intention to find wonder and awe. It will renew your creative spirit, remind you of the marvels around you, and make your soul sing. Reclaim your inner happiness—let Wonder Seeker show you how.

Author : Richard Thomson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780300257106
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Presence of the Past in French Art, 1870-1905 written by Richard Thomson and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative book introduces a vivid new reading of French art and society at a crucial period of history The study of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century French art tends to focus on a search for the modern. Richard Thomson presents an innovative approach to a popular period of art history, instead investigating how art in early Third Republic France adapted styles from the past. The classical is the predominant theme, punctuated by other stylistic currents, notably the Rubensian and the Botticellian. It asks, how did these styles--all three derived from foreign art--come to be adapted into French visual culture? How did the Republic customise classicism to its ideological ends? How was classicism manipulated by progressive painters for radical and reactionary readings? The Presence of the Past in French Art 1870-1905​ considers artists of very different character and type--from Degas to Henner, Cézanne to Besnard, Roty to Seurat, Dalou to Maillol--as well as a variety of media, including painting, sculpture, medals and celebrity photographs, to open up new vistas of interpretation in this fascinating field.