| Author | : Michael Levey |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 318 |
| Release | : 1993 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 9780300053449 |
During the last years of France's ancien regime, an outpouring of creative activity and patronage resulted in the production of many works of painting and sculpture.
| Author | : Michael Levey |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 344 |
| Release | : 1993-01-01 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 9780300064940 |
Discusses the major painters and sculptors of the period during the last years of France's ancien regime - a period that started with Watteau and the fete galante and closed with the revolutionary history paintings of David.
| Author | : Lois Swan Jones |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 762 |
| Release | : 2013-12-16 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1135933456 |
In the first book of its kind, art information expert Lois Swan Jones discusses how to locate visual and textual information on the Internet and how to evaluate and supplement that information with material from other formats--print sources, CD-ROMS, documentary videos, and microfiche sets--to produce excellent research results. The book is divided into three sections: Basic Information Formats; Types of Websites and How to Find Them; and How to Use Web Information. Jones discusses the strengths and limitations of Websites; scholarly and basic information resources are noted; and search strategies for finding pertinent Websites are included. Art Information and the Internet also discusses research methodology for studying art-historical styles, artists working in various media, individual works of art, and non-Western cultures--as well as art education, writing about art, problems of copyright, and issues concerning the buying and selling of art. This title will be periodically updated.
| Author | : Jane Kromm |
| Publisher | : A&C Black |
| Total Pages | : 302 |
| Release | : 2003-01-01 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 1441143300 |
The Art of Frenzy presents a masterful analysis of public madness from the Renaissance to the Industrial Age. Frenzy--the most flagrant and political form of madness--is the madness of warrior-heroes, kings, scolds, and the possessed. Its representation incorporates a range of traditional characters and figures, from Hercules and Orlando to Medea and Britannia. Understood as abusive power and belligerence out of control, and described in terms drawn equally from definitions of tyranny and liberty, frenzy has always been articulated with a significant degree of political meaning. Integrating art history with cultural studies, political history, and the history of medicine, Jane Kromm draws on a wide range of mediums and contexts--from asylum sculpture to political broadsheets, medical texts, the imagery of revolution, caricature and medical illustrations--to clarify the importance of this interpretative pattern.
| Author | : Linda Walsh |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 299 |
| Release | : 2016-06-23 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 1118475550 |
A Guide to Eighteenth-Century Art offers an introductory overview of the art, artists, and artistic movements of this exuberant period in European art, and the social, economic, philosophical, and political debates that helped shape them. Covers both artistic developments and critical approaches to the period by leading contemporary scholars Uses an innovative framework to emphasize the roles of tradition, modernity, and hierarchy in the production of artistic works of the period Reveals the practical issues connected with the production, sale, public and private display of art of the period Assesses eighteenth-century art’s contribution to what we now refer to as ‘modernity’ Includes numerous illustrations, and is accompanied by online resources examining art produced outside Europe and its relationship with the West, along with other useful resources
| Author | : Marcia B. Hall |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 305 |
| Release | : 2019-01-01 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 0300237197 |
This beautifully illustrated volume explores the history of color across five centuries of European painting, unfolding layers of artistic, cultural, and political meaning through a deep understanding of technique.
| Author | : Elise Goodman |
| Publisher | : University of Delaware Press |
| Total Pages | : 180 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Art and society |
| ISBN | : 0874137403 |
This study joins the resurgent scholarship presently redressing the neglect of eighteenth-century visual culture since the beginning of the twentieth century. This volume offers nine contextual and cross-disciplinary essays that engage with a rich panoply of discourses ranging from art criticism to biography, to collecting and the art market, to art theory and practice and the institutions that shaped them, to beauty and fashion, sociopolitical and philosophical issues, gender studies, patronage, iconography, and print culture.
| Author | : Herman Lebovics |
| Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
| Total Pages | : 284 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 9780801435652 |
Traveling in a First-Class Cabin on the luxury liner France early in 1963, the Western world's most famous painting sailed across the Atlantic on its maiden voyage to the United States. The goodwill generated by the loan eased U.S.-French relations, which had soured over tensions stemming from the cold war. The mastermind behind the Mona Lisa's triumphant tour was France's newly appointed minister of cultural affairs, Andre Malraux. In this book, Herman Lebovics recounts how Malraux's brilliant foray into the realm of diplomacy was but one example of his efforts to employ France's cultural heritage in the service of a renewed national grandeur.
| Author | : Michel-Andre Bossy |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Total Pages | : 256 |
| Release | : 2001-10-30 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 0313017328 |
Disney's animated trailblazing, Dostoyevsky's philosophical neuroses, Hendrix's electric haze, Hitchcock's masterful manipulation, Frida Kahlo's scarifying portraits, Van Gogh's vigorous color, and Virginia Woolf's modern feminism: this multicultural reference tool examines 200 artists, writers, and musicians from around the world. Detailed biographical essays place them in a broad historical context, showing how their luminous achievements influenced and guided contemporary and future generations, shaped the internal and external perceptions of their craft, and met the sensibilities of their audience.
