Scoundrels Cads And Other Great Artists

Author : Jeffrey K. Smith
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781538126783

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Scoundrels, Cads, and Other Great Artists by Jeffrey K. Smith Pdf

Just because the art is beautiful doesn't mean the artist was a saint . . . Scoundrels, Cads, and Other Great Artists examines the lives of nine great artists who were less than exemplary human beings in their lives outside of their art. It explores the question, “Why do we like magnificent art from artists who were awful human beings?” For example, the great Baroque painter, Caravaggio, who developed the chiaroscuro style of painting, was in constant trouble with the law, even having killed a man in a duel. Frederick Remington, the great painter of the American West, was an incredible racist and bigot. His evocative paintings of Native Americans on the trail on horseback give no hint of Remington’s enmity toward them and other ethnic groups in America. Jackson Pollock? His irascibility and petulance were compounded by a lifelong battle with alcoholism, ultimately leading to a fatal automobile accident. Whistler and Courbet were philanderers and libertines. Scoundrels introduces people to great art by showing the more salacious side of the personal lives of great artists over time. This book not only tells the stories of a dozen artists, but explores how to look at art and the separation between art and artist. This lively narrative is enhanced by over 100 full-color reproductions of great paintings and details from them.

Author : James Hutson,Jason Lively,Bryan Robertson,Peter Cotroneo,Martin Lang
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-16
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783031451270

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Creative Convergence by James Hutson,Jason Lively,Bryan Robertson,Peter Cotroneo,Martin Lang Pdf

Embark on a journey that transcends the boundaries of art and technology in the groundbreaking realm of Creative Convergence: The AI Renaissance in Art and Design. This isn't just another book on art and technology- it's a journey that sparks curiosity, fuels innovation, and challenges traditional artistic boundaries. Discover the power of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) as it melds with human expression, propelling artistry into uncharted territories and redefining traditional notions of both originality and creativity. The text is not just about art or AI; it is about the fusion of both, catalyzing a creative revolution that challenges previous assumptions about human-machine collaboration and how ideation, conceptualization, process and execution are radically rethought. Have you ever wondered how/will AI revolutionize training, education and execution in art and design? Delve into this captivating treatment that contextualizes the disruptions we are experiencing today in the technological innovations and artistic responses and integrations of the past five hundred years. Human creativity has always struggled against technological advance, but ultimately integrated and redefined what "art" is in each era. As such, you will see how AI can be incorporated in various artistic disciplines in this study. Explore real-world case studies that showcase AI's practical impact on 3D design, drawing, digital art, and even web design. The book also addresses the controversial question: Can AI be a co-creator in the creative and artistic process, even assisting in creating an original, signature style? Brace yourself for revelations that will challenge your perceptions of traditional artistry.

Author : Dana Dragunoiu
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810144019

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Vladimir Nabokov and the Art of Moral Acts by Dana Dragunoiu Pdf

Winner, 2022 Brian Boyd Prize for Best Second Book on Nabokov This book shows how ethics and aesthetics interact in the works of one of the most celebrated literary stylists of the twentieth century: the Russian American novelist Vladimir Nabokov. Dana Dragunoiu reads Nabokov’s fictional worlds as battlegrounds between an autonomous will and heteronomous passions, demonstrating Nabokov’s insistence that genuinely moral acts occur when the will triumphs over the passions by answering the call of duty. Dragunoiu puts Nabokov’s novels into dialogue with the work of writers such as Alexander Pushkin, William Shakespeare, Leo Tolstoy, and Marcel Proust; with Kantian moral philosophy; with the institution of the modern duel of honor; and with the European traditions of chivalric literature that Nabokov studied as an undergraduate at Cambridge University. This configuration of literary influences and philosophical contexts allows Dragunoiu to advance an original and provocative argument about the formation, career, and legacies of an author who viewed moral activity as an art, and for whom artistic and moral acts served as testaments to the freedom of the will.

Author : Richard Marschall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : UOM:49015002609296

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America's Great Comic-strip Artists by Richard Marschall Pdf

By focusing on the life and work of 16 of the most gifted artists of the comic strip, Richard Marschall not only celebrates their individual achievements but tells the beginnings a century ago to the present. 300 illustrations, 150 in full color.

Author : David Rampton
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1984-07-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521276713

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Vladimir Nabokov by David Rampton Pdf

Vladimir Nabokov was always a controversial writer. Long before the publication of Lolita, controversy raged over the virtues of his work. His detractors insisted that he had forsaken the humanistic concerns of the Russian literary tradition, while his supporters claimed that his work actually extended and enriched that tradition. David Rampton faces these apparent contradictions head on and tries to reach a more balanced, integrated view of the novelist's achievement.

Author : Beverly Rae Kimes
Publisher : SAE International
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2004-11-30
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780768081336

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Pioneers, Engineers, and Scoundrels by Beverly Rae Kimes Pdf

2005 Thomas McKean Memorial Cup Winner - Voted most important original research in automobile history by The Antique Automobile Club of America Best Of Books Winner, 2005 International Automotive Media Awards Author Beverly Rae Kimes, 2005 International Automotive Media Award for Lifetime Achievement Honorary This "cast of characters" provides the lens through which award-winning author Beverly Rae Kimes focuses on the early years of the American automobile industry. While some names - Ford, Dodge, Buick, and more - are easily recognized, this book also introduces snapshots of lesser known, but vitally important actors in this dramatic saga. The famous, the infamous, and the unknown are brought together by their common dedication to this great invention - and united by the fascinating stories that characterize each person.

Author : Jon Huer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015012266220

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Art, Beauty, and Pornography by Jon Huer Pdf

When viewing the picture of a beautiful sunset, how many of us realize that, while we admire it as a work of art, we have just taken the very first step toward pornography? And that both the beauty in the sunset and the senses that recognize such beauty are very likely to be anti-art? Making a radical departure from the conventional wisdom on art and beauty, ART, BEAUTY, AND PORNOGRAPHY presents the startling thesis that things of beauty are not only unrelated to art but often responsible for pornography. How is this possible? In this controversial work, Huer argues that beauty pleases the senses, which demand to be pleased with each new stimulation. In a society whose members put a premium on pleasurable things, it is natural that the visual medium occupies a commanding position among forms of cultural expression. In the process of competing to please the human eye, American society (the most graphic and visual civilization to date) concentrates on objects and events that please consumers and, by doing so, sell products. Much of this sense-pleasing business takes place in the name of art. But those senses pleased by what is beautiful are the same senses that receive gratification from the pornographic. Art has no place in this process. Based on these arguments, Huer makes a strong case for re-orienting the purpose of art. Drawing on historical experience in the West, he defines art as a statement about life: pain, wisdom, and happiness embodied in the life process. The artist is a teacher of life, the artwork his philosophy, and the art public the beneficiaries of his teaching. Neither beauty nor sensory pleasure, therefore, has anything to do with art. This important volume is, above all, a critique of contemporary American culture directed most especially to society's confusion about art, beauty, and pornography, and its willingness to allow business to assert dominion over artistic impulse. ART, BEAUTY, AND PORNOGRAPHY is a searing commentary on the follies of our time as well as an inspired defense of high art and the creative spirit.

Author : Jeffery P. Dennis
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0826515576

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We Boys Together by Jeffery P. Dennis Pdf

"From Andy Hardy and the Dead End Kids to Spin and Marty and Bomba the Jungle boy, romantic relationships between teenage boys were a staple in American popular culture from 1900 through World War II. Here, Jeffery Dennis reveals how masculine, red-blooded, all-American boys were supposed to ignore girls during high school, becoming interested only after graduation, and documents the later shift to the presumption that teenage boys are heterosexually active and aware."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Jaša,Noah Charney
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781538142004

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Making It by Jaša,Noah Charney Pdf

What Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential did for the world of chefs and restaurants, Making It does for the art world. Making It is a gonzo memoir of an established artist crossed with objective advice, tips and tricks fleshed out by a best-selling art historian and Pulitzer finalist writer on art. It peels back the shroud and reveals the highs and struggles in the life and career of a working artist. Specifically aimed at aspiring artists and art students, it will be of interest to anyone who wants to know what it is like to have an artist’s-eye-view of the art world, asking the tough and often glossed-over questions that rising artists inevitably have, not only about the creative process, but about navigating the turbulent waters of the social, professional, academic, critical, museum and trade elements of a career as a visual artist. How best to deal with the abundance of alcohol, drugs and sex while wire-walking your own artistic dilemmas? How can an artist launch his or her career and help it flourish? What’s it like to achieve every artist’s dream, including showing at the Venice Biennale? What does it really mean to "make it" and how can you maintain your groove once you’ve arrived? All these questions and more are answered in this combination tell-all memoir and how-to manual for rising artists and anyone wanting a behind-the-scenes tour of what it’s like to be an artist.

Author : Charles Purdy
Publisher : Council Oak Books
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 188517182X

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Urban Etiquette by Charles Purdy Pdf

Meet the personification of todays new etiquette, Mr. Social Grace weekly advice columnist in print, radio and online as he reveals the basics of good manners for everyday urban life. He offers a new interpretation of good manners that can serve as a powerful tool to help twenty-first century people get along better. Presented in answers to real-life quandaries is Social Graces philosophy of etiquette.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Technology
ISBN : UOM:39015053258797

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English Mechanic and Mirror of Science and Art by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ingrid Stadler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Art
ISBN : UCAL:B4251406

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Contemporary Art and Its Philosophical Problems by Ingrid Stadler Pdf

This collection examines the complex intersection where art and philosophy merge. Topics for discussion include the criticism of Robert Wolfe, the minimalist sculpture of the 1960s, the metaphysics of photography, the paintings of Jackson Pollock, and some reflections on why women have been denied entrance to the pantheon of great artists.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : World politics
ISBN : SRLF:E0000218016

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Public Opinion by Anonim Pdf

Author : William Hawes
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2001-03-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476608495

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Live Television Drama, 1946Ð1951 by William Hawes Pdf

The “live era” or “golden age”of television drama originating from New York, 1946 through 1951, was an exciting time of creative and commercial accomplishment. This is a complete history and reference guide to the live dramas that aired during those six years. Extensive coverage is given to the NBC anthologies Kraft Television Theatre and Philco Television Playhouse, and the CBS anthologies Ford Theater and Studio One, as well as to “he competitors”—the 28 new anthologies that appeared in the prime time schedule during 1950 and 1951. Appendices comprehensively list the day-by-day program logs for BBC, CBS and NBC dramas from 1946 through 1951.

Author : Les Harding
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786466375

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They Knew Marilyn Monroe by Les Harding Pdf

Taking an innovative approach to the life and legend of Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962), this biographical dictionary concentrates on her circle of friends, acquaintances and coworkers--1618 in all. Distilled from hundreds of celebrity biographies are references to, and quotes about, the iconic Hollywood sex symbol from such diverse personalities as architect Frank Lloyd Wright, Israeli diplomat Abba Eban, beat poet Jack Kerouac, novelist Somerset Maugham, jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, counterculture guru Timothy Leary and evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson, to name but a few. All of these remarkable people have, in one way or another, crossed paths with the magnificent Monroe. The entries in this volume (with source listings for further reading and research) confirm the fact that Marilyn Monroe remains a figure of enduring fascination five decades after her death.