Lectures on Art

Lectures on Art
Author: Christian Michel
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 490
Release: 2020-08-25
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1606066463

For the first time, a critical selection of the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture’s highly influential conférences is available in English. Between 1667 and 1792, the artists and amateurs of the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture in Paris lectured on the Académie’s conférences, foundational documents in the theory and practice of art. These texts and the principles they embody guided artistic practice and art theory in France and throughout Europe for two centuries. In the 1800s, the Académie’s influence waned, and few of the 388 Académie lectures were translated into English. Eminent scholars Christian Michel and Jacqueline Lichtenstein have selected and annotated forty-two of the most representative lectures, creating the first authoritative collection of the conférences for readers of English. Essential to understanding French art of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, these lectures reveal what leading French artists looked for in a painting or sculpture, the problems they sought to resolve in their works, and how they viewed their own and others’ artistic practice.

Durer's Journeys

Durer's Journeys
Author: Susan Foister
Publisher: National Gallery London
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2021-03-23
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781857096675

Albrecht Durer's (1471-1528) travels across Europe in the early Renaissance led to a fascinating interchange of ideas with his fellow artists, both northern and southern. This book explores Durer's extensive influence on his contemporaries and his sources of inspiration, bringing together paintings, drawings, sculptures, glass, and prints by artists he may have encountered along the way. It also examines the complex development of Durer's own status as an artist entrepreneur and innovator in artistic theory.0 Durer's journal records his pursuit of commissions and details his visits to Italy, Antwerp, Cologne, Brussels, Ghent, and Bruges. During this time he produced a trove of landscapes, portraits, and animal drawings, and studies for larger projects, such as the painting of Saint Jerome that would become his most copied work. Durer's travels informed some of his most exciting and engaging works, and their visual legacy extended far beyond his lifetime and throughout the continent.00Exhibition: The National Gallery, London, UK(06.03.?13.06.2021) / Suermondt-Ludwig Museum, Aachen, Germany (18.07.-24.10.2021).

The Artist Project

The Artist Project
Author: Christopher Noey
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2017-09-19
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0714873543

Artists have long been stimulated and motivated by the work of those who came before them—sometimes, centuries before them. Interviews with 120 international contemporary artists discussing works from The Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection that spark their imagination shed new light on art-making, museums, and the creative process. Images of works from The Met collection appear alongside images of the contemporary artists' work, allowing readers to discover a rich web of visual connections that spans cultures and millennia.

Art, Perception, and Reality

Art, Perception, and Reality
Author: E. H. Gombrich
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 160
Release: 1973-09
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780801815522

Explores questions relating to the nature of representation in art. It asks how we recognize likeness in caricatures or portraits, for instance, and presents the conflicting arguments and opinions of an art historian, a psychologist and a philosopher.

The Art of Sculpture

The Art of Sculpture
Author: Herbert Read
Publisher:
Total Pages: 420
Release: 1977
Genre: Sculpture
ISBN: 9780691018119

The description for this book, The Art of Sculpture, will be forthcoming.

Lecture

Lecture
Author: Mary Cappello
Publisher: Undelivered Lectures
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2020-09-08
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9781945492426

An energetic and irreverent essay on the forgotten art of the lecture, part of Transit's new Undelivered Lectures series.

Lectures on Painting

Lectures on Painting
Author: James Barry
Publisher:
Total Pages: 586
Release: 1848
Genre: Painting
ISBN:

The library also has an ed. published: London : G. Bell, 1885.