Essays On Art

Author : Charles Harrison
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2003-09-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 0262582414

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Essays on Art and Language by Charles Harrison Pdf

Critical and theoretical essays by a long-time participant in the Art & Language movement. These essays by art historian and critic Charles Harrison are based on the premise that making art and talking about art are related enterprises. They are written from the point of view of Art & Language, the artistic movement based in England—and briefly in the United States—with which Harrison has been associated for thirty years. Harrison uses the work of Art & Language as a central case study to discuss developments in art from the 1950s through the 1980s. According to Harrison, the strongest motivation for writing about art is that it brings us closer to that which is other than ourselves. In seeing how a work is done, we learn about its achieved identity: we see, for example, that a drip on a Pollock is integral to its technical character, whereas a drip on a Mondrian would not be. Throughout the book, Harrison uses specific examples to address a range of questions about the history, theory, and making of modern art—questions about the conditions of its making and the nature of its public, about the problems and priorities of criticism, and about the relations between interpretation and judgment.

Author : Alexandra Kingston-Reese
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781609388119

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Art Essays by Alexandra Kingston-Reese Pdf

Art Essays is a passionate collection of the best essays on the visual arts written by contemporary novelists. With an introduction by literary critic and editor Alexandra Kingston-Reese, Art Essays is an enthralling vision of a new wave of literary essays shaping contemporary culture.

Author : Julian Barnes
Publisher : Random House
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781473513136

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Keeping an Eye Open by Julian Barnes Pdf

The updated edition of Julian Barnes’ best-loved writing on art, with seven new exquisite illustrated essays ‘Flaubert believed that it was impossible to explain one art form in terms of another, and that great paintings required no words of explanation. Braque thought the ideal state would be reached when we said nothing at all in front of a painting. But we are very far from reaching that state. We remain incorrigibly verbal creatures who love to explain things, to form opinions, to argue... It is a rare picture which stuns, or argues, us into silence. And if one does, it is only a short time before we want to explain and understand the very silence into which we have been plunged.’ Julian Barnes began writing about art with a chapter on Géricault’s The Raft of the Medusa in his 1989 novel A History of the World in 101⁄2 Chapters. Since then he has written a series of remarkable essays, chiefly about French artists, which trace the story of how art made its way from Romanticism to Realism and into Modernism. Fully illustrated in colour throughout, Keeping an Eye Open contains Barnes’ essays on Géricault, Delacroix, Courbet, Manet, Morisot, Fantin-Latour, Cézanne, Degas, Cassatt, Redon, Van Gogh, the legendary critic Huysmans, Bonnard, Vuillard, Vallotton, Braque, Magritte, Oldenburg, Howard Hodgkin and Lucian Freud. It also offers new perspectives on the fruitful relationship between writers and artists, and on the rivalry among Russian collectors of French art in the late 19th century. ‘A typically elegant and absorbing book by one of the greatest contemporary English writers.’ Guardian *Books of the Year* ‘Gave me a new confidence in how to understand and, more importantly, enjoy wandering around an exhibition.’ Mariella Frostrup ‘My book of the year.’ Natalie Haynes, Independent

Author : Eliot Deutsch
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0791431118

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Essays on the Nature of Art by Eliot Deutsch Pdf

Presents a theory of art which is at once universal in its general conception and historically-grounded in its attention to aesthetic practices in diverse cultures. Argues that art, especially today, enjoys a special kind of autonomy but that it has, nevertheless, important social and political responsibilities.

Author : Walter Benn Michaels,Claire Bishop,Talib Agape Fuegoverde,David Levi Strauss,Simon Critchley,T. J. Demos,Ariella Azoulay,Judith Rodenbeck,Katy Siegel,Martha Schwendener,Alva Noë,Blake Gopnik,David Geers,Alexander Nagel,David Robbins,Siona Wilson,Luis Camnitzer,Michael O'Hare,Alexander Dumbadze,Terry Smith,Alexi Worth,Gaby Collins-Fernandez,Katie Anania,Marika Takanishi Knowles,Sheila Heti,Karen Archey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0990788172

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Bending Concepts by Walter Benn Michaels,Claire Bishop,Talib Agape Fuegoverde,David Levi Strauss,Simon Critchley,T. J. Demos,Ariella Azoulay,Judith Rodenbeck,Katy Siegel,Martha Schwendener,Alva Noë,Blake Gopnik,David Geers,Alexander Nagel,David Robbins,Siona Wilson,Luis Camnitzer,Michael O'Hare,Alexander Dumbadze,Terry Smith,Alexi Worth,Gaby Collins-Fernandez,Katie Anania,Marika Takanishi Knowles,Sheila Heti,Karen Archey Pdf

Art Criticism. An anthology of the Held Essays on Visual Art, published in the Brooklyn Rail from 2011 to 2017. Featuring essays by Walter Benn Michaels, Claire Bishop, Talib Agape Fuegoverde, David Levi Strauss, Simon Critchley, T.J. Demos, Ariella Azoulay, Judith Rodenbeck, Katy Siegel, Martha Schwendener, Alva Noë, Blake Gopnik, David Geers, Alexander Nagel, David Robbins, Siona Wilson, Luis Camnitzer, Michael O'Hare, Alexander Dumbadze, Terry Smith, Alexi Worth, Gaby Collins-Fernandez, Katie Anania, Marika Takanishi Knowles, Sheila Heti, and Karen Archey, with an introduction by editors Jonathan T.D. Neil and Alexander Nagel and a preface by Daniel Belasco, Executive Director of the Al Held Foundation.

Author : Dot Tuer
Publisher : YYZ Books
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 0920397352

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Mining the Media Archive by Dot Tuer Pdf

Mining the Media Archive gathers together an exciting collection of essays by writer and cultural theorist Dot Tuer. Ranging from monographs on new media artists to a history of Canada's most controversial artist-run centre, the CEAC, to testimonial writing on cultural politics and post-colonialism in Canada and Argentina, Tuer's writings address issues of global media and local remembrance through a unique blend of storytelling, archival research and cultural analysis.

Author : Michael Fried
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1998-04-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 0226263193

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Art and Objecthood by Michael Fried Pdf

Much acclaimed and highly controversial, Michael Fried's art criticism defines the contours of late modernism in the visual arts. This volume contains 27 pieces--uncompromising, exciting, and impassioned writings, aware of their transformative power during a time of intense controversy about the nature of modernism and the aims and essence of advanced painting and sculpture. 16 color plates. 72 halftones.

Author : Linda Nochlin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780429982620

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Women, Art, And Power And Other Essays by Linda Nochlin Pdf

Women, Art, and Power?seven landmark essays on women artists and women in art history?brings together the work of almost twenty years of scholarship and speculation.

Author : John Updike
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2006-02-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780141921822

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Still Looking by John Updike Pdf

In Still Looking, John Updike has collected together his thoughts and observations on American art to produce an eye-opening follow-up to his 1989 art criticism classic Just Looking. Beginning with early American portraits and landscapes, he goes on to extol two late-nineteenth-century masters, Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins, considers the eccentric pre-modern painter and graphic artist James McNeill Whistler, discusses the competing American Impressionists and Realists of the early twentieth century - and concludes with appreciations of the art of Edward Hopper, Jackson Pollock and Andy Warhol. The resulting collection of essays is proof that Updike is still looking and seeing what only he can describe. 'As a writer Updike can do anything he wants' Margaret Atwood 'John Updike writes with a steady brilliance about the world out there' Guardian

Author : Rudolf Arnheim
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780520907843

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New Essays on the Psychology of Art by Rudolf Arnheim Pdf

Thousands of readers who have profited from engagement with the lively mind of Rudolf Arnheim over the decades will receive news of this new collection of essays expectantly. In the essays collected here, as in his earlier work on a large variety of art forms, Arnheim explores concrete poetry and the metaphors of Dante, photography and the meaning of music. There are essays on color composition, forgeries, and the problems of perspective, on art in education and therapy, on the style of artists' late works, and the reading of maps. Also, in a triplet of essays on pioneers in the psychology of art (Max Wertheimer, Gustav Theodor Fechner, and Wilhelm Worringer) Arnheim goes back to the roots of modern thinking about the mechanisms of artistic perception.

Author : Yves Bonnefoy
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1995-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 0226064441

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The Lure and the Truth of Painting by Yves Bonnefoy Pdf

Always fascinated in his poetry by the nature of color and light and the power of the image, Bonnefoy continues to pursue these themes in his discussion of the lure and truth of representation. He sees the painter as a poet whose language is visual, and he seeks to find out what visual artists can teach those who work with words.

Author : John Updike
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1627159061

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Just Looking by John Updike Pdf

Author : Norman Bryson
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781780232522

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Looking at the Overlooked by Norman Bryson Pdf

In this, the only up-to-date critical work on still life painting in any language, Norman Bryson analyzes the origins, history and logic of still life, one of the most enduring forms of Western painting. The first essay is devoted to Roman wall-painting while in the second the author surveys a major segment in the history of still life, from seventeenth-century Spanish painting to Cubism. The third essay tackles the controversial field of seventeenth-century Dutch still life. Bryson concludes in the final essay that the persisting tendency to downgrade the genre of still life is profoundly rooted in the historical oppression of women. In Looking at the Overlooked, Norman Bryson is at his most brilliant. These superbly written essays will stimulate us to look at the entire tradition of still life with new and critical eyes.

Author : Octavio Paz
Publisher : Harvest Books
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1995-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 015600061X

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Essays on Mexican Art by Octavio Paz Pdf

Essays discuss pre-Columbian art, the influence of European art on the Mexican muralists, and the abstract art of Tamayo

Author : Robert Hughes
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780307809599

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Nothing If Not Critical by Robert Hughes Pdf

From Holbein to Hockney, from Norman Rockwell to Pablo Picasso, from sixteenth-century Rome to 1980s SoHo, Robert Hughes looks with love, loathing, warmth, wit and authority at a wide range of art and artists, good, bad, past and present. As art critic for Time magazine, internationally acclaimed for his study of modern art, The Shock of the New, he is perhaps America’s most widely read and admired writer on art. In this book: nearly a hundred of his finest essays on the subject. For the realism of Thomas Eakins to the Soviet satirists Komar and Melamid, from Watteau to Willem de Kooning to Susan Rothenberg, here is Hughes—astute, vivid and uninhibited—on dozens of famous and not-so-famous artists. He observes that Caravaggio was “one of the hinges of art history; there was art before him and art after him, and they were not the same”; he remarks that Julian Schnabel’s “work is to painting what Stallone’s is to acting”; he calls John Constable’s Wivenhoe Park “almost the last word on Eden-as-Property”; he notes how “distorted traces of [Jackson] Pollock lie like genes in art-world careers that, one might have thought, had nothing to do with his.” He knows how Norman Rockwell made a chicken stand still long enough to be painted, and what Degas said about success (some kinds are indistinguishable from panic). Phrasemaker par excellence, Hughes is at the same time an incisive and profound critic, not only of particular artists, but also of the social context in which art exists and is traded. His fresh perceptions of such figures as Andy Warhol and the French writer Jean Baudrillard are matched in brilliance by his pungent discussions of the art market—its inflated prices and reputations, its damage to the public domain of culture. There is a superb essay on Bernard Berenson, and another on the strange, tangled case of the Mark Rothko estate. And as a finale, Hughes gives us “The SoHoiad,” the mock-epic satire that so amused and annoyed the art world in the mid-1980s. A meteor of a book that enlightens, startles, stimulates and entertains.