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Author : Iain Zaczek
Release : 2024-10-29
Genre : Art
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 176/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Chronology of Art by : Iain Zaczek
Download or read book A Chronology of Art written by Iain Zaczek. This book was released on 2024-10-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh take on the history of art, using cultural timelines to reveal little-known connections and influences between artworks and artistic movements.
Author : Iain Zaczek
Release : 2018-02-06
Genre : Art
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 819/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Chronology of Art by : Iain Zaczek
Download or read book A Chronology of Art written by Iain Zaczek. This book was released on 2018-02-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh take on the history of art, using cultural timelines to reveal little-known connections and influences between artworks and artistic movements Most surveys of the history of art are divided into historic periods, artistic schools, and movements. In reality, movements and artists’ careers overlap and intertwine, reacting to events in the world around them. By prioritizing a purely chronological approach, A Chronology of Art illuminates these relationships from a fresh perspective and places the developments of the art world into context with one another. Structured around a central timeline covering Ancient & Medieval, Renaissance & Baroque, Rococo & Neoclassicism, Romanticism & Beyond, and The Modern Era, the book features lavish illustrations of artworks, together with commentaries, and lively “In Focus” features with information about the social, stylistic, technical, political, and cultural events of each period. This approach reveals little- known connections: the most illustrious Neoclassical painting (David’s Oath of the Horatii) was executed just a couple of years after one of the best-known Romantic scenes (Fuseli’s The Nightmare); and American artist James Whistler, who had attended West Point Military Academy, was creating his finest work in Europe at the very time when his homeland was being torn apart by civil war.
Author : Dan Karlholm
Release : 2018-04-27
Genre : Art
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 971/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Time in the History of Art by : Dan Karlholm
Download or read book Time in the History of Art written by Dan Karlholm. This book was released on 2018-04-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addressed to students of the image—both art historians and students of visual studies—this book investigates the history and nature of time in a variety of different environments and media as well as the temporal potential of objects. Essays will analyze such topics as the disparities of power that privilege certain forms of temporality above others, the nature of temporal duration in different cultures, the time of materials, the creation of pictorial narrative, and the recognition of anachrony as a form of historical interpretation.
Author : The Editors of Phaidon Press
Release : 2014-09-22
Genre : Art
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Book Rating : 373/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Art in Time by : The Editors of Phaidon Press
Download or read book Art in Time written by The Editors of Phaidon Press. This book was released on 2014-09-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art in Time is the first book to embed art movements within the larger context of politics and history. Global in scope and featuring an innovative present‐to‐past arrangement, the book’s accessible text looks back on the most significant art styles and movements, from the present day to antiquity. Pages of historical photographs, documents, newspaper headlines, and other ephemera evoke the times in which styles and movements arose. The book opens with The Information Age (Internet Art, Neo‐Expressionaism, Arte Povera) and closes with The Classical Age (Roman wall painting, Hellenistic Greek style), covering everything from Photorealism, Art Brut, Ukiyo‐e, and Byzantine style in between. An integrated timeline provides a linear thread throughout the book, while succinct, authoritative text illuminates key points.
Author : Melvin H. Schuetz
Release : 1999
Genre : Reference
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 291/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Chesley Bonestell Space Art Chronology by : Melvin H. Schuetz
Download or read book A Chesley Bonestell Space Art Chronology written by Melvin H. Schuetz. This book was released on 1999. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chesley Bonestell has been called the "Father of Space Art." His photorealistic paintings of the Moon and planets, and other worlds beyond, have awed us since they were first published, over half a century ago. Moreover, he showed, long before Gagarin or Glenn, what it would be like for humans to explore the vastness of space. As author Howard E. McCurdy has written in his book, Space and the American Imagination: "No artist had more impact on the emerging popular culture of space in America than Chesley Bonestell. . . . Through his visual images, he stimulated the interest of a generation of Americans and showed how space travel would be accomplished." Considering his great influence on both the public interest in space flight and the actual development of a national space program, it is therefore both surprising and unfortunate that, heretofore, there has not been available a bibliography documenting those places where Bonestell's art appeared in print. This book fills that void. Written in cooperation with the artist's widow and his estate managers, A Chesley Bonestell Space Art Chronology contains well over 700 entries and is the definitive reference guide to publications containing Bonestell's space art. In praise of it, the illustrator Vincent Di Fate says: "This entertaining and scholarly work is an invaluable and indispensable treasure for the vast legions of Bonestell's fans. [T]houghtful, engrossing and utterly thorough . . . [it] provides the cosmic ride of a lifetime."
