What Great Paintings Say. Faces of Power

2018 Human figure in art

Author : Rainer & Rose-Marie Hagen
Release : 2018
Genre : Human figure in art
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Book Rating : 767/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book What Great Paintings Say. Faces of Power written by Rainer & Rose-Marie Hagen. This book was released on 2018. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the hidden details concealed within depictions of powerful figures of the past, from the sixth-century prostitute turned Byzantine Empress Theodora to military leader and famous co-author of history's rudest letter Ivan Sirko. Part detectives, part historians, Rose-Marie and Rainer Hagen dissect 13 historical masterworks, complete with...

What Great Paintings Say

2003 Art

Author : Rose-Marie Hagen
Release : 2003
Genre : Art
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Download or read book What Great Paintings Say written by Rose-Marie Hagen. This book was released on 2003. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These are the kinds of question Rose-Marie and Rainer Hagen ask when faced with world-famous masterpieces. In the language of today they comment on the fashions and attitudes, trends and intrigues, love, vice and lifestyles of past times. Book jacket.

Confronting Images

2005 Philosophy

Author : Georges Didi-Huberman
Release : 2005
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Rating : 714/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Confronting Images written by Georges Didi-Huberman. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to Didi-Huberman, visual representation has an "underside" in which intelligible forms lose clarity and defy rational understanding. Art historians, he contends, fail to engage this underside, and he suggests that art historians look to Freud's concept of the "dreamwork", a mobile process that often involves substitution and contradiction.

To Paint is to Love Again

1960 Aesthetics

Author : Henry Miller
Release : 1960
Genre : Aesthetics
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Two Faces of Power

Author : Peter Bachrach
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