The Painter's Eye

The Painter's Eye
Author: Henry James
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Total Pages: 290
Release: 1989
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780299122843

Between 1868 and 1897 Henry James wrote a number of short essays and reviews of artists and art collections; these essays were published in magazines such as Atlantic Monthly and Harper's Weekly and in newspapers such as the New York Tribune. They included James's comments on Ruskin, Turner, Whistler, Sargent, and the Impressionists, among many others. Thirty of these essays were collected and first published in a modern edition in 1956, accompanied by John Sweeney's introduction, which sketches James's interest in the visual arts over a period of years, focusing on the ways in which painting and painters entered his work as subjects. Susan Griffin's new forward places James's observations in a contemporary context. Some of the novelist's judgements will seem wrong to today's readers: he was critical of the Impressionists, for example. But all of these essays bear the stamp of James's critical intelligence, and they tell us a great deal about his development as a writer during those years.

Ariadnê. The Story of a Dream

Ariadnê. The Story of a Dream
Author: Ouida
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2024-06-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3385534895

Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.

The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley

The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley
Author: R. H. Shepherd
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 478
Release: 2024-07-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3382836858

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Art of Illusion

Art of Illusion
Author: Dan Karlholm
Publisher: Peter Lang
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2006
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9783039109586

To survey art history as a whole was a pressing task for a generation of German scholars around the mid-nineteenth century. Their projections of a historicist chain of artworks ranged from textual narratives without illustrations, to separate picture compendia as well as images of a more allegorical kind. Other means with which to picture art history as part of a virtually all-encompassing cultural history were the museums of art erected in Germany at the time, in Berlin and Munich especially. This book deals with practices of representing art history in various media. This includes post-Hegelian texts and engravings of art history from the 1840s onwards, by Franz Kugler, Julius Schnorr and others. In addition, works of art of the late twentieth century, by Andy Warhol, Anselm Kiefer and others, provide opportunities to speculate on the after-effects and discursive traces of the old regime. Extending the concept of historiography to include not just textual or institutional endeavours, but a host of different images as well, from reproductive prints to pop paintings and visual archives of the digital era, this study is intended to contribute in new ways to a critical historiography of the field of art history and visual culture today.