A Picasso Bestiary

Author : Neil Cox,Deborah Povey
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1995-02-28
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015034297385

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A Picasso Bestiary by Neil Cox,Deborah Povey Pdf

Pablo Picasso was fascinated by animals and from his earliest years they played an important role in both his life and his work. Many of his most intriguing and stimulating creations represent beasts in all manner of guises, both serious and playful. A Picasso Bestiary is published to coincide with an exhibition held at Croydon in 1995, and like the show, it gathers together a thought-provoking selection of Picasso's animal works, grouped by subject: The Bull, The Horse and the Donkey, Birds, Cats and Dogs, Goats and Sheep, Watery Creatures, Insects, Monkeys and Monsters. This format was suggested by the structure of the mediaeval bestiary: a luxurious 'Book of Beasts' which described the wonders of the animal kingdom and explained their moral and spiritual significance. The stories the bestiary tells are based on fact and fancy, hearsay and precedence, and a comparable method has been adopted in this book: the weaving of tales around Picasso's animals and relating them to earlier themes and models in Western European art. Like many artists before him, Picasso recognised the way in which the visual representation of animals could invoke a whole range of reflections about life and death, food and sex and, importantly, his own creativity. This book therefore comprises two narratives, the one dealing with a tradition of animal representation, the other with Picasso. Their juxtaposition, together with a wealth of visual material, allows exciting patterns to emerge which demonstrate both how consistently certain long-established themes continue into Picasso's art, and how wilfully others are abandoned in favour of his own personal vision.

Author : Elizabeth Morrison
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : ART
ISBN : 9781606065907

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Book of Beasts by Elizabeth Morrison Pdf

A celebration of the visual contributions of the bestiary--one of the most popular types of illuminated books during the Middle Ages--and an exploration of its lasting legacy. Brimming with lively animals both real and fantastic, the bestiary was one of the great illuminated manuscript traditions of the Middle Ages. Encompassing imaginary creatures such as the unicorn, siren, and griffin; exotic beasts including the tiger, elephant, and ape; as well as animals native to Europe like the beaver, dog, and hedgehog, the bestiary is a vibrant testimony to the medieval understanding of animals and their role in the world. So iconic were the stories and images of the bestiary that its beasts essentially escaped from the pages, appearing in a wide variety of manuscripts and other objects, including tapestries, ivories, metalwork, and sculpture. With over 270 color illustrations and contributions by twenty-five leading scholars, this gorgeous volume explores the bestiary and its widespread influence on medieval art and culture as well as on modern and contemporary artists like Pablo Picasso and Damien Hirst. Published to accompany an exhibition on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center May 14 to August 18, 2019.

Author : Peter Read
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520243613

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Picasso and Apollinaire by Peter Read Pdf

Monografie over de vriendschap en creatieve interactie tussen de Spaans/Franse kunstenaar (1881-1973) en de Franse dichter (1880-1918).

Author : Neil Cox
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1525231081

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Q and a Picasso by Neil Cox Pdf

Dr Neil Cox Head of Department of Art History and Theory at the University of Essex; author of Phaidon Press's Cubism and co-author of A Picasso Bestiary Foreword by Simon Schama Professor of History and Art History at Columbia University; his books include Landscape and Memory and Rembrandt's Eyes; he has also written and presented two BBC TV series, A History of Britain and Simon Schama's Power of Art

Author : Deborah Wye
Publisher : The Museum of Modern Art
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Art
ISBN : 0870707809

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A Picasso Portfolio by Deborah Wye Pdf

Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Picasso: Themes and Variations" held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, N.Y., Mar. 24-Sept. 6, 2010.

Author : Dr Enrique Mallen
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781782846628

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Pablo Picasso by Dr Enrique Mallen Pdf

As early as the ancient Greeks, goddesses served as Muses for artistic creation. In essence, a creatively charged energy inspired the artist, leaving a unique and recognizable mark on the artwork. Picassos relationships with the women in his life was deeply formative, and he often represented them as Muses. He was particularly unabashed in the declaration of his feelings to one of them, Marie-Therese Walter, his youthful mistress of 1927. But at that point Picasso was still married to Olga Khokhlova, thus forced to practice the utmost discretion. His marriage to Olga made him increasingly frustrated with her imposed bourgeois expectations. As a release from this marital burden, Marie-Therese was ever present in his work, often portrayed as Aphrodite with a wreath in her hair, a basket of flowers and fruits by her side. Marie-Therese was the Dream the Muse. This fertile period coincided with the strong influence of surrealism which helped liberate Picassos psyche from the straitjacket that Olgas lifestyle imposed on him. By 1935, however, the model and mistress became a mother to Maya, radically changing the role she previously had. The following year Picasso was introduced to a new woman, Dora Maar, an encounter that signalled the beginning of the end of Marie-Thereses exclusive claim on Picassos affections and the closing of an artistic period clearly marked by fertility. The Aphrodite Period (19241936) provides new insights and analysis of Picassos life as recently uncovered through the research of the Online Picasso Project. This time-span is one of the most illustrative periods of Picassos career in that it clearly demonstrates the close interdependence between sexuality and artistic creativity that characterize Picasso's entire output.

Author : Christine Temple
Publisher : Robinson
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781780334370

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Picasso's Brain by Christine Temple Pdf

Where does creativity come from? Why are some people more creative than others? Eminent neuropsychologist Christine Temple navigates a wide range of factors from the hard science (visual memory, spatial ability, brain functions) to the environmental (the 'mad genius' myth, and Gladwell's 10,000 hours of practice) in her study of what contributes to creativity. Using Pablo Picasso as her model of a creative genius, she weighs up each theory as it applies to Picasso and shows how his own creativity came from a combination of many factors. In this book, she looks at Picasso's playful mindset and passionate relationships, investigates the possibility that genius is genetic and can be inherited in families, considers whether creative genii perceive the world in a different way, and determines whether single-mindedness and focus play a part. This is the first book to look at a multitude of traits in creativity, and nail down the key factors that matter (and also which ones don't) to provide an overall picture of this fascinating area, linking the science to the personal.

Author : Ed Shacklee
Publisher : Able Muse Press
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781927409862

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The Blind Loon - A Bestiary by Ed Shacklee Pdf

In his impressive bestiary, The Blind Loon, Ed Shacklee shows as keen an insight into the nature of the beast roaming free as into the beast within. This encyclopedic collection includes the commonplace python, monkey, crocodile, tortoise, camel; the mythical kraken, lamia, chimera, wyvern; the prehistoric ankylosaurus; the fantastical logorrhea, mope, snub, hipster. Shacklee doles out marvels, mischief and hilarity in The Blind Loon, and the breathtaking illustrations of Russ Spitkovsky provide an accompanying visual feast that are by themselves worth the price of admission. A Fog of Blurbs Their plumage is a sheen of words whose meanings are the same- inveigling, too often heard, obnoxious birds, but tame, their mewling call is pecks of praise without one speck of blame. Indifferent if they foul their nests or poop rains on the rabble, garrulously gathered on the garret eaves of Babel, they preen as they pontificate on arts in which they dabble, for truth goes out the window when the Blurbs fly into town; a mist of cloying tidings, thought essential to renown, their beaks grow long and longer and are uniformly brown.

Author : Guillaume Apollinaire
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1567921426

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Bestiary, Or, The Parade of Orpheus by Guillaume Apollinaire Pdf

An early and influential champion of cubism, Apollinaire was seminal in the revolutionary art style of Surrealism, a term he coined some seven years before Breton formally founded the movement. This text was originally published in 1910.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004410350

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Taking Stock – Twenty-Five Years of Comparative Literary Research by Anonim Pdf

This commemorative volume offers a retrospective of the discipline as mirrored in the series Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft since its founding in 1993. Leading scholars examine issues of world literature, the history of ideas, gender studies, aesthetics and literary translation.

Author : Kathryn Brown
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351546423

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The Art Book Tradition in Twentieth-Century Europe by Kathryn Brown Pdf

Investigating the complex history of visual art?s engagement with literature, this collection demonstrates that the art of the book is a fully interdisciplinary and distinctly modern form. The essays in the collection develop new critical approaches to the analysis of twentieth-century bookworks and explore ways in which European writers and painters challenged the boundary between visual and linguistic expression in the content, production, and physical form of books. The Art Book Tradition in Twentieth-Century Europe offers a detailed examination of word-image relations in forms ranging from the livre d?artiste to personal diaries and almanacs. It analyzes innovative attempts to challenge familiar hierarchies between texts and images, to fuse different expressive media, and to reconceptualize traditional notions of ekphrasis. Giving consideration to the material qualities of books, the works discussed in this collection also test and celebrate the act of reading, while locating it in the context of other sensory experiences. Essays examine works by Dufy, Matisse, Beckett, Kandinsky, Braque, and Ponge, among other European artists and writers active during the twentieth century.

Author : Stanton Marlan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-29
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000317749

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C. G. Jung and the Alchemical Imagination by Stanton Marlan Pdf

Winner of the 2021 American Board & Academy of Psychoanalysis Annual Book Prize for Best Theoretical Book in Psychoanalysis! Stanton Marlan brings together writings which span the course of his career, examining Jungian psychology and the alchemical imagination as an opening to the mysteries of psyche and soul. Several chapters describe a telos that aims at the mysterious goal of the Philosophers’ Stone, a move replete with classical and postmodern ideas catalysed by prompts from the unconscious: dreams, images, fantasies, and paradoxical conundrums. Psyche and matter are seen with regards to soul, light and darkness in terms of illumination, and order and chaos as linked in the image of chaosmos. Marlan explores the richness of the alchemical ideas of Carl Jung, James Hillman, and others and their value for a revisioning of psychology. In doing so, this volume challenges any tendency to literalism and essentialism, and contributes to an integration between Jung’s classical vision of a psychology of alchemy and Hillman’s Alchemical Psychology. C.G. Jung and the Alchemical Imagination will be a valuable resource for academics, scholars, and students of Jungian and post-Jungian studies, Jungian analysis, and psychotherapy. It will also be of great interest to Jungian psychologists and Jungian analysts in practice and in training.

Author : J.C. von Vaupel Klein
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789004264939

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Treatise on Zoology - Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology. The Crustacea, Volume 4 Part B by J.C. von Vaupel Klein Pdf

This part B of the fourth volume of The Crustacea contains chapters on: ● Crustaceans in the Biosphere ● Crustaceans and Mankind ● Crustaceans in Art ● Orders Lophogastrida, Stygiomysida, and Mysida [collectively known as Mysidacea] As evident from the number 4B tagged to this volume, vol. 4 as originally planned had to be split into two fascicles, 4A and 4B, simply because of the numbers of pages covered by the various contributions meant for volume 4. The chapters in this book grew out of those in the French edition volumes 7(II) and 7(III)(A). Overall, this constitutes the seventh tome published in this English series, viz., preceded by volumes 1 (2004), 2 (2006), 9A (2010), 9B (2012), 3 (2012), and 4A (2013). Readers/users should note that from vol. 4A onward we have had to abandon publishing the chapters in the serial sequence as originally envisaged by the late Prof. J. Forest, because the various contributions, i.e., both the updates and the entirely new chapters, have become available in a more or less random order.

Author : Joan B. Landes,Paula Young Lee,Paul Youngquist
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780271061405

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Gorgeous Beasts by Joan B. Landes,Paula Young Lee,Paul Youngquist Pdf

Gorgeous Beasts takes a fresh look at the place of animals in history and art. Refusing the traditional subordination of animals to humans, the essays gathered here examine a rich variety of ways animals contribute to culture: as living things, as scientific specimens, as food, weapons, tropes, and occasions for thought and creativity. History and culture set the terms for this inquiry. As history changes, so do the ways animals participate in culture. Gorgeous Beasts offers a series of discontinuous but probing studies of the forms their participation takes. This collection presents the work of a wide range of scholars, critics, and thinkers from diverse disciplines: philosophy, literature, history, geography, economics, art history, cultural studies, and the visual arts. By approaching animals from such different perspectives, these essays broaden the scope of animal studies to include specialists and nonspecialists alike, inviting readers from all backgrounds to consider the place of animals in history and art. Combining provocative critical insights with arresting visual imagery, Gorgeous Beasts advances a challenging new appreciation of animals as co-inhabitants and co-creators of culture. Aside from the editors, the contributors are Dean Bavington, Ron Broglio, Mark Dion, Erica Fudge, Cecilia Novero, Harriet Ritvo, Nigel Rothfels, Sajay Samuel, and Pierre Serna.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Caribbean Area
ISBN : UCSD:31822026634238

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British Bulletin of Publications on Latin America, the Caribbean, Portugal, and Spain by Anonim Pdf