Changing Images of Pictorial Space

Changing Images of Pictorial Space

Author: William V. Dunning

Publisher: Syracuse University Press

Published: 1991-03-01

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9780815625087

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No artist, critic, or art historian disputes the importance of recording how and why our conceptions and methods of depicting pictorial space have changed from ancient to modern times, and yet no previous book has provided a comprehensive history centered around these changing images of pictorial space and the ways in which their evolution reflects ideological changes in society. Dunning traces the two thousand year evolution of the conception and the depiction of space in European (primarily Italian and French) and American painting. Unraveling one illusory image after another into their particular elements, he explains the development of new styles and images in painting as a continuous rearrangement of these basic elements. Following this progression through the Greco-Roman period, the Italian Renaissance, impressionism, and the end of modern art, the author concludes with today's postmodern concentration on linguistic aspects in painting, a change from the former emphasis on space and illusion. Changing Images of Pictorial Space, with over forty illustrations, will be of interest to a wide audience—from art historians, painters, and art educators to general readers who wish to understand more about one of the central organizing principles in all schools and periods of art.


Fantasy Clip Art

Fantasy Clip Art

Author: Kevin Crossley

Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing

Published: 2007-06

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780740765520

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* Create your own dragons to slay, orcs to kill, and every warrior, weapon, and warlock you could possibly conceive using the thousands of possible designs included on the CD. It's estimated the fantasy market has over nine million consumers. Fantasy enthusiasts who yearn to create their own alternate realities can do so easily with this indispensable resource. This book-and-CD combo provides high-resolution clip art and digital instruction allowing users to create personalized artwork. * Well-known fantasy artist Kevin Crossley created art for the CD. Weapons, characters, equipment, and landscapes are all included in a variety of customizable styles.


Faces

Faces

Author: Milton E. Brener

Publisher: University Press of America

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 9780761818137

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Scientists have emphasized the innate, genetically based nature of our fascination with the human face and its almost limitless expressive capacity, all of which is represented in the art of the last six centuries. But little attention has been paid to the anomoly of the vacuous expressions of earlier facial representations. Brener attributes this change to a change in the functioning of the human brain, as well as the role of cultural factors. It is the evolution of both genes and culture that has resulted in a marked increase in the human ability to create and interpret facial expressions. The result of this has impacted human behavior.


Signs of Change

Signs of Change

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-11-08

Total Pages: 522

ISBN-13: 9004489142

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Signs of Change: Transformations of Christian Traditions and their Representation in the Arts, 1000–2000 focuses on the changing relationships between what gradually emerged as the Arts and Christianity, the latter term covering both a stream of ideas and its institutions. The book as a whole is addressed to a general academic audience concerned with issues of cultural history, while the individual essays are also intended as scholarly contributions within their own fields. A collaborative effort by twenty-five European and American scholars representing disciplines ranging from aesthetics to the history of art and architecture, from literature, music and the theatre to classics, church history, and theology, the volume is an interdisciplinary study of intermedial phenomena, generally in larger cultural and intellectual contexts. The focus of topics extends from single concrete objects to sets of abstract concepts and values, and from a single moment in time to an entire millennium. While Signs of Change acknowledges the importance of synthesizing efforts essential to hermeneutically informed scholarship, in order to counterbalance generalized historical narratives with detailed investigations, broad accounts are juxtaposed with specialized research projects. The deliberately unchronological grouping of contributions underlines the effort to further discussion about methodologies for writing cultural history.


Art Information and the Internet

Art Information and the Internet

Author: Lois Swan Jones

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-12-16

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 1135933383

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In the first book of its kind, art information expert Lois Swan Jones discusses how to locate visual and textual information on the Internet and how to evaluate and supplement that information with material from other formats--print sources, CD-ROMS, documentary videos, and microfiche sets--to produce excellent research results. The book is divided into three sections: Basic Information Formats; Types of Websites and How to Find Them; and How to Use Web Information. Jones discusses the strengths and limitations of Websites; scholarly and basic information resources are noted; and search strategies for finding pertinent Websites are included. Art Information and the Internet also discusses research methodology for studying art-historical styles, artists working in various media, individual works of art, and non-Western cultures--as well as art education, writing about art, problems of copyright, and issues concerning the buying and selling of art. This title will be periodically updated.


Closet Drama

Closet Drama

Author: Catherine Burroughs

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-09-03

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 135160693X

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Closet Drama: History, Theory, Form introduces the emerging field of Closet Drama Studies by featuring twelve original essays from distinguished scholars who offer fresh and illuminating perspectives on closet drama as a genre. Examining an unusual mix of historical narratives, performances, and texts from the Renaissance to the present, this collection unleashes a provocative array of theoretical concerns about the phenomenon of the closet play—a dramatic text written for reading rather than acting.


Ekphrastic encounters

Ekphrastic encounters

Author: David Kennedy

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2018-12-05

Total Pages: 414

ISBN-13: 1526125811

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This book offers a comprehensive reassessment of ekphrasis: the verbal representation of visual art. Ekphrasis has been traditionally regarded as a form of paragone (competition) between word and image. This interdisciplinary collection of essays seeks to complicate this critical paradigm and proposes a more reciprocal model of ekphrasis that involves an encounter or exchange between visual and textual cultures. This critical and theoretical shift demands a new form of ekphrastic poetics, which is less concerned with representational and institutional struggles, and more concerned with ideas of ethics, affect and intersubjectivity. Ekphrastic encounters brings together leading scholars working in the field of word-and-image studies and offers a fresh exploration of ekphrastic texts from the Renaissance to the present day. Taken together, the chapters establish a new set of theoretical frameworks for exploring the ekphrastic encounter.


Poetry in a World of Things

Poetry in a World of Things

Author: Rachel Eisendrath

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2018-04-06

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 022651661X

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Introduction -- Subjectivity and the antiquarian object: Petrarch among the ruins of Rome -- Here comes objectivity: Spenser's 1590 the Faerie Queene, book 3 -- Playing with things: reification in Marlowe's Hero and Leander -- Feeling like a fragment: Shakespeare's the Rape of Lucrece -- Coda: make me not object