The Painter Of Modern Life

Author : Charles-Pierre Baudelaire
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141956437
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Painter of Modern Life written by Charles-Pierre Baudelaire and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2010-08-26 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poet, aesthete and hedonist, Baudelaire was also one of the most groundbreaking art critics of his time. Here he explores beauty, fashion, dandyism, the purpose of art and the role of the artist, and describes the painter who, for him, expresses most fully the drama of modern life. GREAT IDEAS. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.

Author : T.J. Clark
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0525520511
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Painting of Modern Life written by T.J. Clark and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2017-06-28 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From T.J. Clark comes this provocative study of the origins of modern art in the painting of Parisian life by Edouard Manet and his followers. The Paris of the 1860s and 1870s was a brand-new city, recently adorned with boulevards, cafés, parks, Great Exhibitions, and suburban pleasure grounds—the birthplace of the habits of commerce and leisure that we ourselves know as "modern life." A new kind of culture quickly developed in this remade metropolis, sights and spectacles avidly appropriated by a new kind of "consumer": clerks and shopgirls, neither working class nor bourgeois, inventing their own social position in a system profoundly altered by their very existence. Emancipated and rootless, these men and women flocked to the bars and nightclubs of Paris, went boating on the Seine at Argenteuil, strolled the island of La Grande-Jatte—enacting a charade of community that was to be captured and scrutinized by Manet, Degas, and Seurat. It is Clark's cogently argued (and profusely illustrated) thesis that modern art emerged from these painters' attempts to represent this new city and its inhabitants. Concentrating on three of Manet's greatest works and Seurat's masterpiece, Clark traces the appearance and development of the artists' favorite themes and subjects, and the technical innovations that they employed to depict a way of life which, under its liberated, pleasure-seeking surface, was often awkward and anxious. Through their paintings, Manet and the Impressionists ask us, and force us to ask ourselves: Is the freedom offered by modernity a myth? Is modern life heroic or monotonous, glittering or tawdry, spectacular or dull? The Painting of Modern Life illuminates for us the ways, both forceful and subtle, in which Manet and his followers raised these questions and doubts, which are as valid for our time as for the age they portrayed.

Author : Charles Pierre Baudelaire
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Painter of Modern Life written by Charles Pierre Baudelaire and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-10 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poet, esthete and hedonist, Baudelaire was also one of the most revolutionary art critics of his time. Here he delves into beauty, fashion, dandyism, the purpose of art, and the role of the artist, and he describes the painter who, in his opinion, more fully expresses the drama of modern life.

Author : George Moore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781843680802
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Painter of Modern Life written by George Moore and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two essays remembering Degas by the most acute observers of the avant-garde art of their time, Walter Sickert and George Moore. Introduced by Professor Anna Gruezner Robins, a leading expert on Degas and his British admirers

Author : Jeremy Lewison
Publisher : Mercatorfonds
ISBN 13 : 9780300220070
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alice Neel written by Jeremy Lewison and published by Mercatorfonds. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking book re-evaluates the work of Alice Neel, one of the most renowned American portrait painters of the 20th century This insightful catalogue examines anew the full range of Alice Neel s (1900-1984)celebrated paintings of people, still life, and cityscapes. Featuring around seventy paintings spanning the entire length of her career, this handsome book accompanies a major retrospective of her work, and reveals her underlying interest in the history of photography, German painting of the 1920s, and other artists, such as Van Gogh and Cezanne, all of which provided an important precedent for the veracity and raw emotional intensity of her figurative works.Neel is renowned for her visual acuity and psychological depth, and her portraits and nude paintings of friends, family, strangers, and prominent cultural figures alike convey an incredibly consistent intimacy regardless of the relationship to her subject. The accompanying essays trace the trajectory of Neel s artistic language as it evolved alongside contemporaneous trends in the New York City art world and examine the manner in which her own work figured into the social and cultural contexts of her time. Created over a sixty-year period, Neel s oeuvre offers a remarkably expressive document of the specific milieus she navigated through and ultimately transcends the marker of time altogether."

Author : Charles Baudelaire
Publisher : Phaidon
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Painters of Modern Life written by Charles Baudelaire and published by Phaidon. This book was released on 1995-08-24 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of the 19th-century French poet's most celebrated critical writings.

Author : Timothy Raser
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351574396
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baudelaire and Photography written by Timothy Raser and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Baudelaire's 'Le Peintre de la vie moderne' is often cited as the first expression of our theory of modernism, his choice of Constantin Guys as that painter has caused consternation from the moment of the essay's publication in 1863. Worse still, in his 'Salon de 1859', Baudelaire had also chosen to condemn photography in terms that echo to this day. Why did the excellent critic choose a mere reporter and illustrator as the painter of modern life? How could he have overlooked photography as the painting of modern life? In this study of modernity and photography in Baudelaire's writing, Timothy Raser, who has written on the art criticism of Baudelaire, Proust, Claudel and Sartre, shows how these two aberrations of critical judgment are related, and how they underlie current discussions of both photography and modernism. Timothy Raser is Professor of French at the University of Georgia (USA).

Author : Ralph Rugoff
Publisher : Hayward Gallery Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Painting of Modern Life written by Ralph Rugoff and published by Hayward Gallery Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Text by Ralph Rugoff, Kaja Silverman, Barry Schwabsky, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Martin Herbert.

Author : Marshall Berman
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9780860917854
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All that is Solid Melts Into Air written by Marshall Berman and published by Verso. This book was released on 1983 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The experience of modernization -- the dizzying social changes that swept millions of people into the capitalist world -- and modernism in art, literature and architecture are brilliantly integrated in this account.

Author : Keith Tester
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317657284
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Flaneur (RLE Social Theory) written by Keith Tester and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-08-21 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Timely and original, this collection of essays from the leading figures in their fields throws new and valuable light on the significance and future of flânerie. The flâneur is usually identified as the ‘man of the crowd’ of Edgar Allen Poe and Charles Baudelaire, and as one of the heroes of Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project. The flâneur’s activities of strolling and loitering are mentioned increasingly frequently in sociology, cultural studies and art history, but rarely is the debate developed further. The Flâneur is the first book to develop the debate beyond Baudelaire and Benjamin, and to push it in unexpected and exciting directions.