Nature Morte

Author : Michael Petry
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780500292235

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Nature Morte by Michael Petry Pdf

“Richly rethinks one of art’s everlasting topics.” —Art & Auction Leading artists of the twenty-first century are reviving the still life, a genre that once was more associated with the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Old Masters than with contemporary art. The audacious still lifes celebrated here challenge that historical supremacy and redefine what it means to be a work of nature morte (literally translated from the French: “dead nature”). Whether through painting, drawing, sculpture, video, or other media, contemporary artists have drawn on the centuries-old tradition to create works of conceptual vivacity, beauty, and emotional poignancy. Structured according to the classical categories of the still-life tradition—Flora, Food, House and Home, Fauna, and Death, each chapter explores how the timeless symbolic resonance of the memento mori—a reminder of death, change, and the passing of time—has been rediscovered for a new millennium. Among the artists represented are John Currin, Saara Ekström, Elmgreen & Dragset, Renata Hegyi, Damien Hirst, David Hockney, Gary Hume, Jeff Koons, McDermott & McGough, Beatriz Milhazes, Gabriel Orozco, Marc Quinn, Sam Taylor-Wood, and Cy Twombly.

Author : Charles Sterling
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Still-life painting
ISBN : UOM:39015006342649

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Nature Morte de L'antiquité À Nos Jours (English) by Charles Sterling Pdf

Author : Jagannath Panda
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B5078692

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Jagannath Panda, Nature Morte, New Delhi, October 10th to 29th, 2005 by Jagannath Panda Pdf

Author : Michael Petry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Art
ISBN : UCSD:31822040762148

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Nature Morte by Michael Petry Pdf

Thought-provoking and richly visual, Nature Morte brings together, for the first time, the poignant, provocative re-imaginings of the traditional still life by over 180 international contemporary artists. This visually stunning and timely book reveals how leading artists of the 21st century are reinvigorating the still life, a genre previously synonymous with the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Old Masters. Michael Petry's careful selection celebrates works by emerging and established artists alike, from all over the globe, including John Currin, Elmgreen & Dragset, Robert Gober, Renata Hegyi, Damien Hirst, David Hockney, Gary Hume, Sarah Lucas, Beatriz Milhazes, Gabriel Orozco, Elizabeth Peyton, Marc Quinn, Gerhard Richter, Sam Taylor-Wood and Ai Wei Wei. Short and compelling introductions begin each chapter and are followed by dramatic, visually led spreads that pair each work with a perceptive reading of its significance to the still-life tradition. Petry's engaging, provocative text reveals how contemporary practitioners are revisiting the major motifs of the still life and translating them for the modern world. Petry explores the timeless themes of life, death and the irrevocable passing of time in these new works for our modern world; artworks that invite us to pause and reconsider what it means to be human.

Author : Alison Pearlman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2003-06-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 0226651452

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Unpackaging Art of the 1980s by Alison Pearlman Pdf

American art of the 1980s is as misunderstood as it is notorious. Critics of the time feared that market hype and self-promotion threatened the integrity of art. They lashed out at contemporary art, questioning the validity of particular media and methods and dividing the art into opposing camps. While controversies have since subsided, critics still view art of the 1980s as a stylistic battlefield. Alison Pearlman rejects this picture, which is truer of the period's criticism than of its art. Pearlman reassesses the works and careers of six artists who became critics' biggest targets. In each of three chapters, she pairs two artists the critics viewed as emblematic of a given trend: Julian Schnabel and David Salle in association with Neo-Expressionism; Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring vis-à-vis Graffiti Art; and Peter Halley and Jeff Koons in relation to Simulationism. Pearlman shows how all these artists shared important but unrecognized influences and approaches: a crucial and overwhelming inheritance of 1960s and 1970s Conceptualism, a Warholian understanding of public identity, and a deliberate and nuanced use of past styles and media. Through in-depth discussions of works, from Haring's body-paintings of Grace Jones to Schnabel's movie Basquiat, Pearlman demonstrates how these artists' interests exemplified a broader, generational shift unrecognized by critics. She sees this shift as starting not in the 1980s but in the mid-1970s, when key developments in artistic style, art-world structures, and consumer culture converged to radically alter the course of American art. Unpackaging Art of the 1980s offers an innovative approach to one of the most significant yet least understood episodes in twentieth-century art.

Author : Titia Hulst
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520290624

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A History of the Western Art Market by Titia Hulst Pdf

This is the first sourcebook to trace the emergence and evolution of art markets in the Western economy, framing them within the larger narrative of the ascendancy of capitalist markets. Selected writings from across academic disciplines present compelling evidence of art’s inherent commercial dimension and show how artists, dealers, and collectors have interacted over time, from the city-states of Quattrocento Italy to the high-stakes markets of postmillennial New York and Beijing. This approach casts a startling new light on the traditional concerns of art history and aesthetics, revealing much that is provocative, profound, and occasionally even comic. This volume’s unique historical perspective makes it appropriate for use in college courses and postgraduate and professional programs, as well as for professionals working in art-related environments such as museums, galleries, and auction houses.

Author : Victoria Charles
Publisher : Parkstone International
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781783100002

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Art in Europe by Victoria Charles Pdf

The European continent gathers together, without a doubt, the most famous works of art, evidence of the history of Western art. The cultural capitals and their emblematic museums contain paintings, sculptures, or rather works of art, devised by the great artists, representative of European culture. From Madrid to London, passing through Prague, the major works of the old continent are presented here. Thanks to detailed information about the museums and their collections, you, too, can explore and discover Europe’s fascinating cultural heritage.

Author : Thomas Herbst,Kerstin Popp
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110947021

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The Perfect Learners' Dictionary (?) by Thomas Herbst,Kerstin Popp Pdf

This volume undertakes a detailed analysis of the latest generation of learners' dictionaries of English. It assembles the papers delivered at the eponymous symposium held at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg in April 1997. There are a number of reasons why these dictionaries are of special lexicographic interest: 1. the type of learners' dictionary associated notably with the name of Hornby can look back on a long tradition in British lexicography; 2. competition between various publishers since the late 70s has given crucial impetus to the development of these dictionaries; 3. these new dictionaries are decisively marked by the evaluation of large-scale computer corpora. Central to the volume is the in-depth comparison of four dictionaries published in 1995: OALD5, LDOCE3, COBUILD2, CIDE. The aim is to exemplify specific differences of approach in the four dictionaries from a wide range of viewpoints (definitions, information on valency and collocations, policy on usage examples, political correctness, etc.). A number of articles also enlarge on the history of learners' dictionaries of English, the significance of corpus linguistics for lexicography, and perspectives for the future, notably in connection with the electronic media.

Author : Martine Blanche
Publisher : Summa Publications, Inc.
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Art
ISBN : 188347910X

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Poétique Des Tableaux Chez Proust Et Matisse by Martine Blanche Pdf

Author : Stanislaus von Moos
Publisher : 010 Publishers
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789064506420

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Le Corbusier by Stanislaus von Moos Pdf

Originally published in Germany in 1968, this first comprehensive and critical survey of Le Corbusier's life and work soon became the standard text on the architect and polymath. French, Spanish, English, Japanese and Korean editions followed, but the book has now been out of print for almost two decades. In the meantime, Le Corbusier's archives in Paris have become available for research, resulting in an avalanche of scholarship. Von Moos' critical take and the basic criteria by which the subject is organized and historicized remain surprisingly pertinent in the context of this recent jungle of Corbusier studies. This new, completely revised edition is based on the 1979 version published in English by the MIT Press but offers a substantially updated body of illustrations. Each of the seven chapters is supplemented by a critical survey of recent scholarship on the respective issues. An updated edition of this acclaimed book, an essential read for students of architecture and architectural history.

Author : Gary Tinterow,Henri Loyrette
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Impressionism (Art)
ISBN : 9780870997174

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Origins of Impressionism by Gary Tinterow,Henri Loyrette Pdf

"This handsome publication, which accompanies a major exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, is a lively and engaging account of the artistic scene in Paris in the 1860s, the years that witnessed the beginnings of Impressionism. For the first time the interactions and relationships among the group of painters who became known as the Impressionists are examined without the overworn art historical polarities commonly evoked: academic versus avant-garde, classicist versus romantic, realist versus impressionist. A host of strong personalities contributed to this history, and their style evolved into a new way of looking at the world. These artists wanted above all to give an impression of truth and to have an impact on or even to shock the public. And they wanted to measure up to or surpass their elders. This complex and rich environment is presented here - the grand old men and the young turks encounter each other, the Salon pontificates, and the new generation moves fitfully ahead, benignly but always with determination." "Origins of Impressionism gives a day-by-day, year-by-year study of the genesis of an epoch-making style." "Bibliographies and provenances are provided for each of the almost two hundred works in the exhibition, and there is an illustrated chronology. With more than two hundred superb colorplates, this informative survey is an essential work for both the general reader and the scholar."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Ruth Bernard Yeazell
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : 0691127263

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Art of the Everyday by Ruth Bernard Yeazell Pdf

Realist novels are celebrated for their detailed attention to ordinary life. But two hundred years before the rise of literary realism, Dutch painters had already made an art of the everyday--pictures that served as a compelling model for the novelists who followed. By the mid-1800s, seventeenth-century Dutch painting figured virtually everywhere in the British and French fiction we esteem today as the vanguard of realism. Why were such writers drawn to this art of two centuries before? What does this tell us about the nature of realism? In this beautifully illustrated and elegantly written book, Ruth Yeazell explores the nineteenth century's fascination with Dutch painting, as well as its doubts about an art that had long challenged traditional values. After showing how persistent tensions between high theory and low genre shaped criticism of novels and pictures alike, Art of the Everyday turns to four major novelists--Honoré de Balzac, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, and Marcel Proust--who strongly identified their work with Dutch painting. For all these writers, Dutch art provided a model for training themselves to look closely at the particulars of middle-class life. Yet even as nineteenth-century novelists strove to create illusions of the real by modeling their narratives on Dutch pictures, Yeazell argues, they chafed at the model. A concluding chapter on Proust explains why the nineteenth century associated such realism with the past and shows how the rediscovery of Vermeer helped resolve the longstanding conflict between humble details and the aspirations of high art.

Author : Wolfgang Zelmer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3980285995

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Nature morte by Wolfgang Zelmer Pdf

Author : William C. Agee,Barbara Rose,Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015006778925

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Patrick Henry Bruce, American Modernist by William C. Agee,Barbara Rose,Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) Pdf

Author : Association of American Painters and Sculptors
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1913
Category : History
ISBN : 9785871491003

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Catalogue of international exhibition of modern art by Association of American Painters and Sculptors Pdf

Commonly referred to as the Armory Show, the International Exhibition of Modern Art in 1913 was an enormous art exhibit featuring the works of early modern artists from Impressionism to Expressionism. The show was an important event in the history of American art, introducing the American public, who were accustomed to realistic art, to the experimental styles of the European avant-garde, including Fauvism, Cubism and Futurism. The show influenced American artists to work in these modern styles. Some of the well-known artists featured in this exhibit include Marcel Duchamp, Camille Pissarro, Mary Cassatt, Paul Cezanne, Paul Gauguin and Wassily Kandinsky.