Learning to Look at Modern Art

Learning to Look at Modern Art

Author: Mary Acton

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 9780415238113

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This companion text to the author's Learning to Look at Paintings addresses some of the questions most commonly asked about modern art, covering key movements of the modern and postmodern periods in a richly illustrated and engaging volume.


Learning to Look at Paintings

Learning to Look at Paintings

Author: Mary Acton

Publisher:

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13:

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Learning to Look at Paintings is an accessible guide to the study and appraisal of paintings, drawings and prints. Mary Acton shows how you can develop visual, analytical and historical skills in learning to look at and understand an image by analysing how it works, what its pictorial elements are and how they relate to each other. This fully revised and updated new edition is illustrated with over 100 images by a wide range of Western European and American artists, ranging from Rembrandt, Van Gogh and Botticelli to Picasso, Matisse and Rothko, and now includes modern and contemporary artists such as Georgia O'Keeffe, Anselm Kiefer, Tacita Dean and Marlene Dumas. In addition, Mary Acton presents new examples highlighting the survival and revival of painting in recent years. A new introduction situates the book in the wider context of recent changes in the approach to Art History. A glossary of critical and technical terms used in the language of Art History is also included, with an updated but still selective reading list.


Pompeo Batoni

Pompeo Batoni

Author: Edgar Peters Bowron

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2007-01-01

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9780300126808

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Inventive storytelling: the early subject pictures -- Batoni's British patrons and the grand tour -- Painter of princes and prince of painters -- Restorer of the Roman school: final years and reception -- Drawings, working methods, and studio practices.


Painting Harlem Modern

Painting Harlem Modern

Author: Patricia Hills

Publisher: University of California Press

Published: 2019-02-16

Total Pages: 367

ISBN-13: 0520305507

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Jacob Lawrence was one of the best-known African American artists of the twentieth century. In Painting Harlem Modern, Patricia Hills renders a vivid assessment of Lawrence's long and productive career. She argues that his complex, cubist-based paintings developed out of a vital connection with a modern Harlem that was filled with artists, writers, musicians, and social activists. She also uniquely positions Lawrence alongside such important African American writers as Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, and Ralph Ellison. Drawing from a wide range of archival materials and interviews with artists, Hills interprets Lawrence's art as distilled from a life of struggle and perseverance. She brings insightful analysis to his work, beginning with the 1930s street scenes that provided Harlem with its pictorial image, and follows each decade of Lawrence's work, with accounts that include his impressions of Southern Jim Crow segregation and a groundbreaking discussion of Lawrence's symbolic use of masks and masking during the 1950s Cold War era. Painting Harlem Modern is an absorbing book that highlights Lawrence's heroic efforts to meet his many challenges while remaining true to his humanist values and artistic vision.


Medieval Architecture and Its Intellectual Context

Medieval Architecture and Its Intellectual Context

Author: E. C. Fernie

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 1990-01-01

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 9781852850340

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Medieval Architecture and its Intellectual Context reflects the range of Peter Kidson's own interests and are united in following his approach to medieval architecture and art: a determination to see buildings and objects in the intellectual terms of the time in which they were created.


Medieval C. 400-C. 1600

Medieval C. 400-C. 1600

Author: Rachel Moss

Publisher: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780300179194

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His is a sweeping, gloriously illustrated celebration of 1,600 years of Irish art and architecture. In five handsome, deeply researched volumes, Art and Architecture of Ireland provides an authoritative and fully illustrated account of the art and architecture of Ireland from the early Middle Ages to the end of the 20th century. Each volume has its own expert editor or editorial team and covers a specific area or chronological period. More than 250 scholars from around the world, who represent a broad range of disciplines, contribute texts that range from thematic and general to articles on techniques and historical developments, biographical entries, bibliographies, lists of artists and comprehensive indexes. Historical documentation combines with the best of current scholarship to make this the most comprehensive and ambitious undertaking of its kind. The volumes will explore all aspects of Irish art and architecture - from high crosses to installation art, from Georgian houses to illuminated manuscripts, from watercolours and sculptures to photographs, oil paintings, video art and tapestries. This monumental work provides new insight into every facet of the strength, depth and variety of Ireland's artistic and architectural heritage. 0Also part of the 5 vols.-set 'Art and Architecture of Ireland'. 9780300179248.