The Life Of Forms In Art
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Author | : Henri Focillon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 1948 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780942299571 |
Considers the problem of stylistic change in art, arguing that art is not reducible to external political, social, or economic determinants
Author | : Henri Focilon |
Publisher | : Parkstone International |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2018-03-13 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1683254589 |
To speak about art is to evoke the hand of the creator who produced the work. It is to confer to its gestures the importance of thoughts and to explore their point of convergence on the canvas or the stone. With this text, Henri Focillon delivers one of the most beautiful odes to the hand and, simultaneously, to the talent of artists, studying Hokusai, Cézanne, and even Rodin. What do artists such as Rembrandt, David, Gauguin, and Hokusai have in common? A virtuosity of the hand, replies Henri Focillon. The viewer often forgets that behind the works, it is first and foremost a hand and its fingers which guide the paintbrush, the pen, or the stylus. Focillon’s text recalls the importance of this part of the body, in which the artist’s talent comes to life. Within his text, he grants the hand the recognition that it deserves.
Author | : Brandon Taylor |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2020-10-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1501353934 |
What is form in modern art? How could a work of art achieve its organic life in a world increasingly dominated by mechanism, by new technology? In this new book, Brandon Taylor proposes that biology and the life sciences themselves supplied many of the analogies and metaphors by which modern artists were guided. For the creative giants of the period - Picasso, Miró, Kandinsky, Strzeminski, Dalí, Arp, Motherwell and Pollock, as well as less-known figures such as Taeuber, Erni and Kobro - questions of 'living' form loomed large in studio conversation, in the press, and in the writings of the artists themselves. In a book rich in new research and fresh thinking, a well-known art historian proposes six modalities of organic and vital life that pervade the radical experiments of modern art: the organic, the biomorphic, the ambiguous, the monstrous, the dialectical, and the liquid.
Author | : Pamela Sachant |
Publisher | : Good Press |
Total Pages | : 614 |
Release | : 2023-11-27 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
Introduction to Art: Design, Context, and Meaning offers a deep insight and comprehension of the world of Art. Contents: What is Art? The Structure of Art Significance of Materials Used in Art Describing Art - Formal Analysis, Types, and Styles of Art Meaning in Art - Socio-Cultural Contexts, Symbolism, and Iconography Connecting Art to Our Lives Form in Architecture Art and Identity Art and Power Art and Ritual Life - Symbolism of Space and Ritual Objects, Mortality, and Immortality Art and Ethics
Author | : Nato Thompson |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0262017342 |
'Living as Form' grew out of a major exhibition at Creative Time in New York City. Like the exhibition, the book is a landmark survey of more than 100 projects selected by a 30-person curatorial advisory team; each project is documented by a selection of colour images.
Author | : Michael D. Jackson |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2016-10-25 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0231541996 |
How are we to think of works of art? Rather than treat art as an expression of individual genius, market forces, or aesthetic principles, Michael Jackson focuses on how art effects transformations in our lives. Art opens up transitional, ritual, or utopian spaces that enable us to reconcile inward imperatives and outward constraints, thereby making our lives more manageable and meaningful. Art allows us to strike a balance between being actors and being acted upon. Drawing on his ethnographic fieldwork in Aboriginal Australia and West Africa, as well as insights from psychoanalysis, religious studies, literature, and the philosophy of art, Jackson deploys an extraordinary range of references—from Bruegel to Beuys, Paleolithic art to performance art, Michelangelo to Munch—to explore the symbolic labor whereby human beings make themselves, both individually and socially, out of the environmental, biographical, and physical materials that affect them: a process that connects art with gestation, storytelling, and dreaming and illuminates the elementary forms of religious life.
Author | : Henri Focillon |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1989-03 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
In this text, Focillon insists that art and its meanings are an inherently dynamic system and that the history of art is one of instabilities, fluctuations and discontinuities. Artworks are never static empirical entities or pure optical presences but rather the virtual traces of a ceaseless process of becoming.
Author | : Marisa Anne Bass |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2021-08-17 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0691215766 |
"A history of shells in early modern Europe, and their rich cultural and artistic significance"--
Author | : Hans Peter L'Orange |
Publisher | : Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : Art and society |
ISBN | : |
In this study, originally published in Norway as Fra Principat Til Dominat, Professor L'Orange sets down the essence of his thought on the crucial period of transition from decentralization to standardization in civic and cultural life-a period not unlike our own.
Author | : Wassily Kandinsky |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 111 |
Release | : 2012-04-20 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 048613248X |
Pioneering work by the great modernist painter, considered by many to be the father of abstract art and a leader in the movement to free art from traditional bonds. 12 illustrations.