Old Masters

Author : Thomas Bernhard
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780226074344

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In this exuberantly satirical novel, the tutor Atzbacher has been summoned by his friend Reger to meet him in a Viennese museum. While Reger gazes at a Tintoretto portrait, Atzbacher—who fears Reger's plans to kill himself—gives us a portrait of the musicologist: his wisdom, his devotion to his wife, and his love-hate relationship with art. With characteristically acerbic wit, Bernhard exposes the pretensions and aspirations of humanity in a novel at once pessimistic and strangely exhilarating. "Bernhard's . . . most enjoyable novel."—Robert Craft, New York Review of Books. "Bernhard is one of the masters of contemporary European fiction."—George Steiner

Author : Thomas Bernhard
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141956251

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'Bernhard is one of the masters of contemporary European fiction'George Steiner Old Masters (1985) is Thomas Bernhard's devilishly funny story about the friendship between two old men. For over thirty years Reger, a music critic, has sat on the same bench in front of a Tintoretto painting in a Viennese museum, thinking and railing against contemporary society, his fellow men, artists, the weather, even the state of public lavatories. His friend Atzbacher has been summoned to meet him, and through his eyes we learn more about Reger - the tragic death of his wife, his thoughts of suicide and, eventually, the true purpose of their appointment. At once pessimistic and exuberant, rancorous and hilarious, Old Masters is a richly satirical portrait of culture, genius, nationhood, class, the value of art and the pretensions of humanity.

Author : Thomas Bernhard
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141192710

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In this exuberantly satirical novel, the tutor Atzbacher has been summoned by his friend Reger to meet him in a Viennese museum. While Reger gazes at a Tintoretto portrait, Atzbacher--who fears Reger's plans to kill himself--gives us a portrait of the musicologist: his wisdom, his devotion to his wife, and his love-hate relationship with art. With characteristically acerbic wit, Bernhard exposes the pretensions and aspirations of humanity in a novel at once pessimistic and strangely exhilarating. Bernhard's . . . most enjoyable novel.--Robert Craft, New York Review of Books. Bernhard is one of the masters of contemporary European fiction. --George Steiner

Author : David W. Galenson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781400837397

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Old Masters and Young Geniuses by David W. Galenson Pdf

When in their lives do great artists produce their greatest art? Do they strive for creative perfection throughout decades of painstaking and frustrating experimentation, or do they achieve it confidently and decisively, through meticulous planning that yields masterpieces early in their lives? By examining the careers not only of great painters but also of important sculptors, poets, novelists, and movie directors, Old Masters and Young Geniuses offers a profound new understanding of artistic creativity. Using a wide range of evidence, David Galenson demonstrates that there are two fundamentally different approaches to innovation, and that each is associated with a distinct pattern of discovery over a lifetime. Experimental innovators work by trial and error, and arrive at their major contributions gradually, late in life. In contrast, conceptual innovators make sudden breakthroughs by formulating new ideas, usually at an early age. Galenson shows why such artists as Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Cézanne, Jackson Pollock, Virginia Woolf, Robert Frost, and Alfred Hitchcock were experimental old masters, and why Vermeer, van Gogh, Picasso, Herman Melville, James Joyce, Sylvia Plath, and Orson Welles were conceptual young geniuses. He also explains how this changes our understanding of art and its past. Experimental innovators seek, and conceptual innovators find. By illuminating the differences between them, this pioneering book provides vivid new insights into the mysterious processes of human creativity.

Author : Cynthia Saltzman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2008-08-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781440633959

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Old Masters, New World by Cynthia Saltzman Pdf

A spellbinding account of the rapacious pursuit of the most exquisite paintings in the world In the Gilded Age, newly wealthy and culturally ambitious Americans began to compete for Europe's extraordinary Old Master pictures, causing a major migration of art across the Atlantic. Old Masters, New World is a backstage look at the cutthroat competition, financial maneuvering, intrigue, and double-dealing often involved in these purchases, not to mention the seductive power of the ravishing paintings that drove these collectors-including financier J. Pierpont Morgan, sugar king H. O. Havemeyer, Boston aesthete Isabella Stewart Gardner, and industrialist Henry Clay Frick. Packed with stunning reproductions, this is an ideal gift book for art lovers and history buffs alike.

Author : Thomas Dormandy
Publisher : Hambledon & London
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Aged artists
ISBN : UOM:39015050794174

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"Donatello, Titian, Hals, Turner, Renoir and Munch, and a surprisingly large number of other major artists, lived to be over seventy-five. Some of their finest and most distinctive works, including Michelangelo's last Pieta, Goya's Black Paintings and Monet's Water Lilies, were done in old age. Whether experimenting with new approaches, adopting new techniques, responding to changed circumstances and debilities, or reacting to the approach of death, the intensity of the late work of many of the greatest artists is striking. Childhood genius has often been studied but, astonishingly, this is the first book to draw attention to a considerably more important artistic phenomenon. Old Masters establishes beyond doubt the frequency with which elderly painters and sculptors reached new heights in their seventies and eighties and suggest why and how they did so."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Patrick De Rynck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2004-12-07
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015059565633

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How to Read a Painting by Patrick De Rynck Pdf

This book decodes the imagery of more than 150 of the most influential and admired artworks of all time.

Author : David Hockney
Publisher : Avery
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2006-10-05
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015066801864

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Secret Knowledge (New and Expanded Edition) by David Hockney Pdf

"Secret Knowledge created an international sensation when it was first published. David Hockney's theory of how the great works of Western art were created with mirrors and lenses attracted major media attention around the world and generated intense debate in the fields of science and art history. Now, in this expanded edition, Hockney takes his thesis even further, revealing for the first time new findings." "In Secret Knowledge, Hockney explains how he uncovered piece after piece of scientific and visual evidence, each one yielding further revelations about the past. With the benefit of his painter's eye, he examines the major works of art history and reveals the truth of how artists such as Caravaggio, Velazquez, van Eyck, Holbein, da Vinci, and Ingres used mirrors and lenses to help them create their famous masterpieces. For this new edition, Hockney delves still deeper into art history, disclosing the evidence that Renaissance artists also used these methods to develop perspective and chiaroscuro - radically challenging our view of how these two foundations of Western art were established." "Hundreds of paintings and drawings are reproduced and accompanied by Hockney's descriptions. His own photographs and drawings illustrate the various methods used by past artists to capture accurate likenesses and present the results they would have achieved. In addition, extracts from the many historical and modern documents he uncovered offer further intriguing evidence, while correspondence between him and an array of international experts provides an account of the remarkable story as it happened." "Secret Knowledge is not just about the lost techniques of the Old Masters. It is also about now and the future. It is about how we see, treat, and make images today, in an age of computer manipulation."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : James Jackson Jarves
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1861
Category : Painting
ISBN : UOM:39015050957581

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Art Studies: the "old Masters" of Italy by James Jackson Jarves Pdf

Author : E. Secrétan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Drawing
ISBN : NYPL:33433091538615

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Catalogue of the celebrated collection of paintings by modern and old masters and of water-colors and drawings by E. Secrétan Pdf

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385345546

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Exhibition of Works by the Old Masters, and by Deceased Masters of the British School. Including a Special Selection from the Works of John Linnell, Dante Gabriel Rossetti by Anonymous Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

Author : sir John Charles Robinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590847739

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Descriptive catalogue of the drawings by the old masters, forming the collection of John Malcolm of Poltalloch by sir John Charles Robinson Pdf

Author : Galerie Sedelmeyer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Painting
ISBN : NYPL:33433086914151

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Illustrated catalogue of ... paintings of old masters of the Dutch, Flemish, Italian, French and English schools belonging to the Sedelmeyer Gallery, which contains ... original paintings of ancient and modern artists by Galerie Sedelmeyer Pdf

Author : Matthew Collings,Titian,Peter Paul Rubens,Diego Velázquez,William Hogarth
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0297646710

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Matt's Old Masters by Matthew Collings,Titian,Peter Paul Rubens,Diego Velázquez,William Hogarth Pdf

Welcome to an alarming book. In it Matthew Collings, known for his TV programmes and books about new art, tells you how to look at the old masters. Of course you can look at them however you like. But this book gives you some art historical facts as the context for what you're looking at - Collings gives you the resources you need, in order to make sense of what you're seeing. And he gets you to think for yourself. In art culture today all you hear about are literal meanings, about subject matter and ideas. Matt Collings objects to the droning repetition of that stuff. He looks to the past for a different model of art, one where the surface, the form, the look of something, is part of the idea, maybe even the main thing. We can't have the past back as a complete package, of course. That would be mad. But we can find critical principles in it that we can use to make something better out of our own time. The key figures he has chosen are Titian, Rubens, Velasquez and Hogarth. The first three stand for the highest that painting can go - rich, free, flowing, grand. In art historical terms, this is the 'painterly' stream of art. The last one didn't punch quite so high, but in him Collings sees a principle of adapting your understanding and admiration for what seems higher and greater than yourself - the achievements of the past - to your own sense of what is alive and real.Matthew Collings' new book gives a unique approach to the paintings of the past.

Author : James Spero
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780486137223

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Old Master Life Drawings by James Spero Pdf

Reproduced from rare portfolios, these 44 masterpieces date from the 15th through 19th centuries. Featured artists include Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Rubens, Tintoretto, Titian, Raphael, Ingres, and many others.