The Poetry Of Sculpture

Author : Weishan Wu
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008-05-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789814472104

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The Poetry Of Sculpture by Weishan Wu Pdf

A renowned sculptor from China, Professor Wu Weishan stands out in China's art arena — indeed, in the entire cultural fraternity — with his unique sculpting styles and original theoretical views. His series of creative works that feature China's historical and cultural celebrities showcase his freehand sculpting technique and his concept of the “eight major styles of Chinese sculpture”, which directly challenge the phenomenon of contemporary art steeped so heavily in values derived from Western popular art and Russian realism.This book documents the different stages of Wu Weishan's pursuits, struggles, and creations. It records his dealings with eminent figures in the science, cultural, and art arenas, such as Yang Zhenning, Ji Xianlin, Wu Guanzhong, and Xiong Bingming. His art notes, excerpts from his theoretical essays, and images of some selected sculptures are also included. From here, readers can get a glimpse of an artist's inner world during his growing years — how he devoutly approached life and art against the backdrop of contemporary society and culture./a

Author : Murray Dewart
Publisher : Everyman's Library
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-06
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781101907757

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Poems About Sculpture by Murray Dewart Pdf

Poems About Sculpture is a unique anthology of poems from around the world and across the ages about our most enduring art form. Sculpture has the longest memory of the arts: from the Paleolithic era, we find stone carvings and clay figures embedded with human longing. And poets have long been fascinated by the idea of eternity embodied by the monumental temples and fragmented statues of ancient civilizations. From Keats’s Grecian urn and Shelley’s “Ozymandias” to contemporary verse about Maya Lin’s Vietnam Veterans Memorial and Janet Echelman’s wind-borne hovering nets, the pieces in this collection convert the physical materials of the plastic arts—clay, wood, glass, marble, granite, bronze, and more—into lapidary lines of poetry. Whether the sculptures celebrated here commemorate love or war, objects or apparitions, forms human or divine, they have called forth evocative responses from a wide range of poets, including Homer, Ovid, Shakespeare, Baudelaire, Rilke, Dickinson, Yeats, Auden, and Plath. A compendium of dazzling examples of one art form reflecting on another, Poems About Sculpture is a treat for art lovers of all kinds.

Author : Mary Jacobus
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780691170725

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Reading Cy Twombly by Mary Jacobus Pdf

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION: TWOMBLY'S BOOKS -- 1 MEDITERRANEAN PASSAGES: RETROSPECT -- 2 PSYCHOGRAM AND PARNASSUS: HOW (NOT) TO READ A TWOMBLY -- 3 TWOMBLY'S VAGUENESS: THE POETICS OF ABSTRACTION -- 4 ACHILLES' HORSES, TWOMBLY'S WAR -- 5 ROMANTIC TWOMBLY -- 6 THE PASTORAL STAIN -- 7 PSYCHE: THE DOUBLE DOOR -- 8 TWOMBLY'S LAPSE -- POSTSCRIPT: WRITING IN LIGHT -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

Author : Kate Farrell
Publisher : Bulfinch Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0821217712

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Art & Love by Kate Farrell Pdf

Scores of evocative love poems, drawn from the entire range of world literature, are matched with wonderfully vibrant works of art--paintings, sculpture, prints, collages, and stained glass to create an elegant anthology of love peoms and masterpieces from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 140 color illustrations.

Author : Ann Lauterbach
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2008-03-25
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781101201183

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The Night Sky by Ann Lauterbach Pdf

A scintillating collection of essays on language from one of literature's most supple minds In The Night Sky, her first work of essays, acclaimed poet Ann Lauterbach writes of the ways in which art and poetry are integral and necessary to human conversation. At the center of the book is a series of seven essays, by turns meditative and polemical, that articulate the interstices between Lauterbach's poetics and her experience. She advocates an active encounter with language, at once imaginative and practical, and argues for the importance of art to the well- being of a democratic society. Lauterbach's "nimble and glittering" (Booklist) writings bring us to a new understanding of the relationship between self-knowledge and cultural meaning, as well as demonstrating the ways in which contemporary philosophy and theory might be integrated with practical knowledge.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015049724563

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Voices by Anonim Pdf

An anthology of poetry and art from sources on six continents.

Author : Graham Zanker
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008-02-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780299194536

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Modes of Viewing in Hellenistic Poetry and Art by Graham Zanker Pdf

Taking a fresh look at the poetry and visual art of the Hellenistic age, from the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C. to the Romans’ defeat of Cleopatra in 30 B.C., Graham Zanker makes enlightening discoveries about the assumptions and conventions of Hellenistic poets and artists and their audiences. Zanker’s exciting new interpretations closely compare poetry and art for the light each sheds on the other. He finds, for example, an exuberant expansion of subject matter in the Hellenistic periods in both literature and art, as styles and iconographic traditions reserved for grander concepts in earlier eras were applied to themes, motifs, and subjects that were emphatically less grand.

Author : Jennifer McCurdy,Wendy Mulhern
Publisher : Schiffer Publishing
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0764353136

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Vessels by Jennifer McCurdy,Wendy Mulhern Pdf

This is the first book to showcase the work of acclaimed ceramic artist Jennifer McCurdy. Collectors and art enthusiasts will be delighted to gaze at these luminescent forms, lyrically accompanied by the poetry of Jennifer's sister, Wendy Mulhern. Dozens of color photographs, plus a section on evolution and process that's illustrated with forty-five color images, clearly show the depth and brilliance of Jennifer's work. In this collaboration Jennifer and Wendy celebrate art and how it holds things that can't be contained in any other way. These vessels, of porcelain and poetry, resonate with each other, engaging an intimate conversation. The evolution and process section provides insight into both the internal process of artistry and the physical and temporal dedication essential to bringing forth a life's body of work.

Author : Sue Brown Cowing
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1996-07-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0824816498

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Fire in the Sea by Sue Brown Cowing Pdf

This imaginative and colorful collection of more than 150 poems contains work by poets from many Pacific lands as well as from Europe, Asia, and the Americas. The poems were gathered especially but not exclusively for young readers. Most were written in English, but a few were translated from their original languages. Unlike conventional anthologies, Fire in the Sea places the rich traditional and contemporary poetry of Hawai‘i and the Pacific (often overlooked by anthologists) alongside better-known works from the East and West. Selected works of art from the collections of the Honolulu Academy of Arts accompany the poems.

Author : Kar Gallery (Toronto, Ont.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:63080882

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Paintings & Sculptures by Kar Gallery (Toronto, Ont.) Pdf

Author : Martiens Bekker
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781471034466

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Scrap Sculpture & Silly Poetry by Martiens Bekker Pdf

Author : Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1831
Category : Sculpture, Ancient
ISBN : UIUC:30112067469087

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Sculpture by Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton Pdf

Author : Simon Phipps
Publisher : September Publishing
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781910463147

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Concrete Poetry by Simon Phipps Pdf

A visual journey through the public sculpture, art and architecture of Modernist Britain f rom Simon Phipps, author of Brutal North and Brutal London At the end of the Second World War, Britain's cities and communities desperately needed rebuilding. As new houses and public spaces were planned, communal engagement was considered to be vital to social recovery. Public art was thought to provide the means to create this engagement. This era of post-war progressive civic planning gave rise to some of the UK's most important pieces of public art. From Richard Serra's Fulcrum in London's Broadgate to Barbara Hepworth's works across the country, to the less well-known Cumisky mural in Skelmersdale and the vivid Schottlander shapes in Warwick, these works of art have become familiar companions; backdrops to British lives. There is an urgency to catalogue these works as much of Britain's Modernist public art is at risk - not to mention that which has already been removed, vandalised or left to crumble. In Concrete Poetry, Simon Phipps photographs, explores and celebrates Britain's post-war public art, placing it in context and considering its future. Complete with incredible photography, an introduction by Phipps, an essay by Darren Umney and detailed captions, Concrete Poetry honours not only of the artworks themselves, but also the community spirit of the age from which they came. Designed by creative agency Studio Small, Concrete Poetry is a uniquely beautiful book that is as inventive as its subject matter. Please note this is a fixed-format ebook with colour images and may not be well-suited for older e-readers.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781452129464

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Art Made from Books by Anonim Pdf

Artists around the world have lately been turning to their bookshelves for more than just a good read, opting to cut, paint, carve, stitch or otherwise transform the printed page into whole new beautiful, thought-provoking works of art. Art Made from Books is the definitive guide to this compelling art form, showcasing groundbreaking work by today's most showstopping practitioners. From Su Blackwell's whimsical pop-up landscapes to the stacked-book sculptures of Kylie Stillman, each portfolio celebrates the incredible creative diversity of the medium. A preface by pioneering artist Brian Dettmer and an introduction by design critic Alyson Kuhn round out the collection.

Author : Anthony Hecht
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691252827

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On the Laws of the Poetic Art by Anthony Hecht Pdf

A magisterial exploration of poetry’s place in the fine arts by one of the twentieth century's leading poets In this book, eminent poet Anthony Hecht explores the art of poetry and its relationship to the other fine arts. While the problems he treats entail both philosophic and theoretical discussion, he never allows abstract speculation to overshadow his delight in the written texts that he introduces, or in the specific examples of painting and music to which he refers. After discussing literature’s links with painting and music, Hecht investigates the theme of paradise and wilderness, especially in Shakespeare’s The Tempest. He then turns to the question of public and private art, exploring the ways in which all the arts participate in balances between private and public modes of discourse, and between an exclusive or elitist role and the openly political. Beginning with a discussion of architecture as an illustration of a more general theme of discord and balance, the penultimate lecture probes the inner contradictions of works of art and our reactions to them, while the final piece concerns art and morality.