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Author : Peter Selz
Release : 1981
Genre : Art
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Book Synopsis Art in Our Times by : Peter Selz
Download or read book Art in Our Times written by Peter Selz. This book was released on 1981. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed survey of the development of world architecture, sculpture, and painting from the turn of the century to the 1970's.
Author : Charles Reginald Dodwell
Release : 1993-01-01
Genre : Art
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Book Rating : 933/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Pictorial Arts of the West, 800-1200 by : Charles Reginald Dodwell
Download or read book The Pictorial Arts of the West, 800-1200 written by Charles Reginald Dodwell. This book was released on 1993-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the ninth and thirteenth centuries the Western world witnessed a glorious flowering of the pictorial arts. In this lavishly illustrated book, C.R. Dodwell provides a comprehensive guide to all forms of this art--from wall and panel paintings to stained glass windows, mosaics, and embroidery--and sets them against the historical and theological influences of the age. Dodwell describes the rise and development of some of the great styles of the Middle Ages: Carolingian art, which ranged from the splendid illuminations appropriate to an emperor's court to drawings of great delicacy; Anglo-Saxon art, which had a rare vitality and finesse; Ottonian art with its political and spiritual messages; the colorful Mozarabic art of Spain, which had added vigor through its interaction with the barbaric Visigoths; and the art of Italy, influenced by the styles of Byzantium and the West. Dodwell concludes with an examination of the universal Romanesque style of the twelfth century that extended from the Scandinavian countries in the north to Jerusalem in the south. His book--which includes the first exhaustive discussion of the painters and craftsmen of the time, incorporates the latest research, and is filled with new ideas about the relations among the arts, history, and theology of the period--will be an invaluable resource for both art historians and students of the Middle Ages.
Author : Michael Glover
Release : 2019-11-26
Genre : Art
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Book Rating : 240/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Thrust by : Michael Glover
Download or read book Thrust written by Michael Glover. This book was released on 2019-11-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A laugh-out-loud visual history of the strangest piece of men’s clothing ever created: the codpiece. The codpiece was fashioned in the Middle Ages to close a revealing gap between two separate pieces of men’s tights. By the sixteenth century, it had become an upscale must-have accessory. This lighthearted, illustrated examination of its history pulls in writers from Rabelais to Shakespeare and figures from Henry VIII to Alice Cooper. Glover’s witty and entertaining prose reveals how male vanity turned a piece of cloth into a bulging and absurd representation of masculinity itself. The codpiece, painted again and again by masters such as Titian, Holbein, Giorgione, and Bruegel, became a symbol of royalty, debauchery, virility, and religious seriousness—all in one. Centuries of male self-importance and delusion are on display in this highly enjoyably new title. Glover’s book moves from paintings to contemporary culture and back again as it charts the growing popularity of the codpiece and its eventual decline. The first history of its kind, this book is a must-read for art historians, anthropologists, fashion aficionados, and readers looking for a good, long laugh.
Author : Christopher Lloyd
Release : 1985
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Book Synopsis A pictorial history of art by : Christopher Lloyd
Download or read book A pictorial history of art written by Christopher Lloyd. This book was released on 1985. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William V. Dunning
Release : 1991-03-01
Genre : Art
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Book Synopsis Changing Images of Pictorial Space by : William V. Dunning
Download or read book Changing Images of Pictorial Space written by William V. Dunning. This book was released on 1991-03-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No artist, critic, or art historian disputes the importance of recording how and why our conceptions and methods of depicting pictorial space have changed from ancient to modern times, and yet no previous book has provided a comprehensive history centered around these changing images of pictorial space and the ways in which their evolution reflects ideological changes in society. Dunning traces the two thousand year evolution of the conception and the depiction of space in European (primarily Italian and French) and American painting. Unraveling one illusory image after another into their particular elements, he explains the development of new styles and images in painting as a continuous rearrangement of these basic elements. Following this progression through the Greco-Roman period, the Italian Renaissance, impressionism, and the end of modern art, the author concludes with today's postmodern concentration on linguistic aspects in painting, a change from the former emphasis on space and illusion. Changing Images of Pictorial Space, with over forty illustrations, will be of interest to a wide audience—from art historians, painters, and art educators to general readers who wish to understand more about one of the central organizing principles in all schools and periods of art.
