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Author : Gerald Marzorati
Release : 1990
Genre : Architecture
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Book Synopsis A Painter of Darkness by : Gerald Marzorati
Download or read book A Painter of Darkness written by Gerald Marzorati. This book was released on 1990. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Matthew Craske
Release : 2020
Genre : Art
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Book Rating : 123/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Joseph Wright of Derby by : Matthew Craske
Download or read book Joseph Wright of Derby written by Matthew Craske. This book was released on 2020. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revelatory study of one of the 18th century's greatest artists, which places him in relation to the darker side of the English Enlightenment Joseph Wright of Derby (1734-1797), though conventionally known as a 'painter of light', returned repeatedly to nocturnal images. His essential preoccupations were dark and melancholy, and he had an enduring concern with death, ruin, old age, loss of innocence, isolation and tragedy. In this long-awaited book, Matthew Craske adopts a fresh approach to Wright, which takes seriously contemporary reports of his melancholia and nervous disposition, and goes on to question accepted understandings of the artist. Long seen as a quintessentially modern and progressive figure - one of the artistic icons of the English Enlightenment - Craske overturns this traditional view of the artist. He demonstrates the extent to which Wright, rather than being a spokesman for scientific progress, was actually a melancholic and sceptical outsider, who increasingly retreated into a solitary, rural world of philosophical and poetic reflection, and whose artistic vision was correspondingly dark and meditative. Craske offers a succession of new and powerful interpretations of the artist's paintings, including some of his most famous masterpieces. In doing so, he recovers Wright's deep engagement with the landscape, with the pleasures and sufferings of solitude, and with the themes of time, history and mortality. In this book, Joseph Wright of Derby emerges not only as one of Britain's most ambitious and innovative artists, but also as one of its most profound. Distributed for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Author : S. Elizabeth
Release : 2022-09-06
Genre : Art
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Book Rating : 211/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Art of Darkness by : S. Elizabeth
Download or read book The Art of Darkness written by S. Elizabeth. This book was released on 2022-09-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Art of Darkness is a visually rich sourcebook featuring eclectic artworks that have been inspired and informed by the morbid, melancholic and macabre. Throughout history, artists have been obsessed with darkness – creating works that haunt and horrify, mesmerise and delight and play on our innermost fears. Gentileschi took revenge with paint in Judith Slaying Holofernes while Bosch depicted fearful visions of Hell that still beguile. Victorian Britain became strangely obsessed with the dead and in Norway Munch explored anxiety and fear in one of the most famous paintings in the world (The Scream, 1893). Today, the Chapman Brothers, Damien Hirst and Louise Bourgeois, as well as many lesser known artists working in the margins, are still drawn to all that is macabre. From Dreams & Nightmares to Matters of Mortality, Depravity & Destruction to Gods & Monsters – this book introduces sometimes disturbing and often beautiful artworks that indulge our greatest fears, uniting us as humans from century to century. But, while these themes might scare us – can’t they also be heartening and beautiful? Exploring and examining the artworks with thoughtful and evocative text, S. Elizabeth offers insight into each artist’s influences and inspirations, asking what comfort can be found in facing our demons? Why are we tempted by fear and the grotesque? And what does this tell us about the human mind? Of course, sometimes there is no good that can come from the sensibilities of darkness and the sickly shivers and sensations they evoke. These are uncomfortable feelings, and we must sit for a while with these shadows – from the safety of our armchairs. Artists covered include Pablo Picasso, Georgia O'Keeffe, Francisco de Goya, Leonora Carrington, John Everett Millais, Tracey Emin, Vincent van Gogh, Barbara Hepworth, Paul Cezanne and Salvador Dalí, as well as scores more. With over 200 carefully curated artworks from across the centuries, The Art of Darkness examines all that is dark in a bid to haunt and hearten. This book is part of the Art in the Margins series, following up on The Art of the Occult, which investigates representations of the mystical, esoteric and occult in art from across different times and cultures.
Author : Scott Skelton
Release : 1999
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 821/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Rod Serling's Night Gallery by : Scott Skelton
Download or read book Rod Serling's Night Gallery written by Scott Skelton. This book was released on 1999. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When CBS cancelled Serling's series, The Twilight Zone, Serling sought a similar concept in Night Gallery in the early 1970s as a new forum for his brand of storytelling, a mosaic of classic horror and fantasy tales. In this work, the authors explore the genesis of the series and provide production detail and behind-the-scenes material. They offer critical commentary and off-screen anecdotes for every episode, complete cast and credit listings, and synopses of all 43 episodes. Also featured are interviews with television personalities including Roddy McDowall, John Astin, Richard Kiley and John Badham.
Author : Rachelle Burk
Release : 2016-07
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
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Book Rating : 151/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Painting in the Dark by : Rachelle Burk
Download or read book Painting in the Dark written by Rachelle Burk. This book was released on 2016-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the life and career of the blind artist from Turkey who spent his childhood days in his father's shop where he developed a curiosity to create and draw.
