What Drawing and Painting Really Mean

What Drawing and Painting Really Mean

Author: Paul Crowther

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2017-04-21

Total Pages: 189

ISBN-13: 1315311844

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Drawings and paintings are made, and the process of making creates unique meanings that transform our perception of space-time and our sense of finitude. By using a phenomenological approach, the understanding of art practice and its relation to particular historical and cultural contexts can be significantly enhanced.


What Drawing and Painting Really Mean

What Drawing and Painting Really Mean

Author: Paul Crowther

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-04-21

Total Pages: 343

ISBN-13: 1315311836

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There are as many meanings to drawing and painting as there are cultural contexts for them to exist in. But this is not the end of the story. Drawings and paintings are made, and in their making embody unique meanings that transform our perception of space-time and sense of finitude. These meanings have not been addressed by art history or visual studies hitherto, and have only been considered indirectly by philosophers (mainly in the phenomenological tradition). If these intrinsic meanings are explained and further developed, then the philosophy of art practice is significantly enhanced. The present work, accordingly, is a phenomenology of how the gestural and digital creation of visual imagery generates self-transformation through aesthetic space.


The Art of Eric Carle

The Art of Eric Carle

Author: Eric Carle

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2021-03-09

Total Pages: 139

ISBN-13: 1984813404

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Carle is one of the most beloved illustrators of children's books. This retrospective is more than just an appreciation of his art, however. The book also contains an insightful autobiography illustrated with personal photographs, an anecdotal essay by his longtime editor, a photographic essay on how Carle creates his collages, and writings by Carle and his colleagues. Still, it is the artwork in the oversize volume that seizes the imagination. More than 60 of his full-color collage pictures are handsomely reproduced and serve as a statement of Carle's impressive talent. - Booklist


Introduction to Art: Design, Context, and Meaning

Introduction to Art: Design, Context, and Meaning

Author: Pamela Sachant

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2023-11-27

Total Pages: 614

ISBN-13:

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Introduction to Art: Design, Context, and Meaning offers a deep insight and comprehension of the world of Art. Contents: What is Art? The Structure of Art Significance of Materials Used in Art Describing Art - Formal Analysis, Types, and Styles of Art Meaning in Art - Socio-Cultural Contexts, Symbolism, and Iconography Connecting Art to Our Lives Form in Architecture Art and Identity Art and Power Art and Ritual Life - Symbolism of Space and Ritual Objects, Mortality, and Immortality Art and Ethics


What Art Is

What Art Is

Author: Arthur C. Danto

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2013-03-19

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 030017487X

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One of America's most celebrated art critics offers a lively meditation on the nature of art.


Beyond Vision

Beyond Vision

Author: Pavel Florensky

Publisher: Reaktion Books

Published: 2006-08-15

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 1861896395

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Beyond Vision is the first English-language collection of essays on art by Pavel Florensky (1882–1937), Russian philosopher, priest, linguist, scientist, mathematician – and art historian. In addition to seven essays by Florensky, the book includes a biographical introduction and an examination of Florensky’s contribution as an art historian by Nicoletta Misler. Beyond Vision reveals Florensky’s fundamental attitudes to the vital questions of construction, composition, chronology, function and destination in the fields of painting, sculpture and design. His reputation as a theologian and philosopher is already established in the English-speaking world, but this first collection in English of his art essays (translated by Wendy Salmond) will be a revelation to those in the field. Pavel Florensky was a true polymath: trained in mathematics and philosophy at Moscow University, he rejected a scholarship in advanced mathematics in order to study theology at the Moscow Theological Academy. He was also an expert linguist, scientist and art historian. A victim of the Soviet government’s animosity towards religion, he was condemned to a Siberian labor camp in 1933 where he continued his work under increasingly difficult circumstances. He was executed in 1937.


The Stage of Drawing

The Stage of Drawing

Author: Tate Gallery

Publisher: Tate

Published: 2003-06-10

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13:

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The Stage of Drawing presents remarkable works on paper selected by the artist Avis Newman from the prestigious collection of Tate, London. Including both well-known and less familiar drawings from the mid-1700s to the 1970s by British and international artists, this book, and its accompanying exhibition, offers the opportunity to view developments in drawing over the past three centuries. The subjects addressed by the book range from literary and theatrical influences on such artists as Sir Joshua Reynolds, William Blake, and Henry Fuseli, to the gestural act in 20th-century drawing as seen in the work of Natalya Goncharova, Francis Bacon, Lucio Fontana, Cy Twombly, Blinky Palermo and Andy Warhol. This book presents a unique view of drawing and its place in the history of art.


Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain

Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain

Author: Betty Edwards

Publisher: Tarcher

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13:

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Presents a set of basic exercises designed to release creative potential and tap into the special abilities of the brain's right hemisphere.


Oil Painting Techniques and Materials

Oil Painting Techniques and Materials

Author: Harold Speed

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2012-04-24

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 0486132692

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Stimulating, informative guide by noted teacher covers painting technique, painting from life, materials — paints, varnishes, oils and mediums, grounds, etc. — a painter's training, more. 64 photos. 5 line drawings.