What Are You Looking At? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook What Are You Looking At? write by Will Gompertz. This book was released on 2012-10-25. What Are You Looking At? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For skeptics, art lovers, and the millions of us who visit art galleries every year—and are confused—What Are You Looking At? by former director of London’s Tate Gallery Will Gompertz is a wonderfully lively, accessible narrative history of Modern Art, from Impressionism to the present day. What is modern art? Who started it? Why do we either love it or loathe it? And why is it such big money? Join BBC Arts Editor Will Gompertz on a dazzling tour that will change the way you look at modern art forever. From Monet's water lilies to Van Gogh's sunflowers, from Warhol's soup cans to Hirst's pickled shark, hear the stories behind the masterpieces, meet the artists as they really were, and discover the real point of modern art. You will learn: not all conceptual art is bollocks; Picasso is king (but Cézanne is better); Pollock is no drip; Dali painted with his moustache; a urinal changed the course of art; why your 5-year-old really couldn't do it. Refreshing, irreverent and always straightforward, What Are You Looking At? cuts through the pretentious art speak and asks all the basic questions that you were too afraid to ask. Your next trip to the art gallery is going to be a little less intimidating and a lot more interesting. With his offbeat humor, down-to-earth storytelling, and flair for odd details that spark insights, Will Gompertz is the perfect tour guide for modern art. His book doesn’t tell us if a work of art is good; it gives us the knowledge to decide for ourselves.
Look
Look - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Look write by Thierry De Duve. This book was released on 2001. Look available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Devoted to the art of the art of the twentieth century, "Look " seeks to transmit rather than pass judgment on a century in which presentation has replaced representation. The challenge taken on by "Look " is to present the works of art in such a way that they present themselves, that they address us, their spectators, and that they speak to all of us. "Look " is therefore divided into three parts: the first, "Here I Am," presents works in which human beings are presented even if they are not specifically represented; the second, "Here You Are," features works that address their spectators face to face, that rely on the viewer to complete them; and the third, "Here We Are," displays a community of works that testify to what binds us together as a global human society. Lavishly illustrated and historically refreshing, "Look " features extensive text by internationally renowned art historian and philosopher Thierry de Duve.
Clement Greenberg Between the Lines
Clement Greenberg Between the Lines - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Clement Greenberg Between the Lines write by Thierry de Duve. This book was released on 2010-04-15. Clement Greenberg Between the Lines available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Clement Greenberg (1909–1994), champion of abstract expressionism and modernism—of Pollock, Miró, and Matisse—has been esteemed by many as the greatest art critic of the second half of the twentieth century, and possibly the greatest art critic of all time. This volume, a lively reassessment of Greenberg’s writings, features three approaches to the man and his work: Greenberg as critic, doctrinaire, and theorist. The book also features a transcription of a public debate with Greenberg that de Duve organized at the University of Ottawa in 1988. Clement Greenberg Between the Lines will be an indispensable resource for students, scholars, and enthusiasts of modern art. “In this compelling study, Thierry de Duve reads Greenberg against the grain of the famous critic’s critics—and sometimes against the grain of the critic himself. By reinterpreting Greenberg’s interpretations of Pollock, Duchamp, and other canonical figures, de Duve establishes new theoretical coordinates by which to understand the uneasy complexities and importance of Greenberg’s practice.” John O’Brian, editor of Clement Greenberg: The Collected Essays and Criticisms “De Duve is an expert on theoretical aesthetics and thus well suited to reassess the formalist tenets of the late American art critic's theory on art and culture. . . . De Duve's close readings of Greenberg . . . contain much of interest, and the author clearly enjoys matching wits with ‘the world's best known art critic.’” Library Journal
Memento Mori in Contemporary Art
Memento Mori in Contemporary Art - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Memento Mori in Contemporary Art write by Taylor Worley. This book was released on 2019-11-28. Memento Mori in Contemporary Art available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores how four contemporary artists—Francis Bacon, Joseph Beuys, Robert Gober, and Damien Hirst—pursue the question of death through their fraught appropriations of Christian imagery. Each artist is shown to not only pose provocative theological questions, but also to question the abilities of theological speech to adequately address current attitudes to death. When set within a broader theological context around the thought of death, Bacon’s works invite fresh readings of the New Testament’s narration of the betrayal of Christ, and Beuys’ works can be appreciated for the ways they evoke Resurrection to envision possible futures for Germany in the aftermath of war. Gober’s immaculate sculptures and installations serve to create alternative religious environments, and these places are both evocative of his Roman Catholic upbringing and virtually haunted by the ghosts of his excommunication from that past. Lastly and perhaps most problematically, Hirst has built his brand as an artist from making jokes about death. By opening fresh arenas of dialogue and meaning-making in our society and culture today, the rich humanity of these artworks promises both renewed depths of meaning regarding our exit from this world as well as how we might live well within it for the time that we have. As such, it will be a vital resource for all scholars in Theology, the Visual Arts, Material Religion and Religious Studies.
What Are You Looking At?
What Are You Looking At? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook What Are You Looking At? write by Will Gompertz. This book was released on 2016-04-07. What Are You Looking At? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What is modern art? Why do we either love it or loathe it? And why is it worth so much damn money? Join Will Gompertz on a dazzling tour that will change the way you look at modern art forever. From Monet's water lilies to Van Gogh's sunflowers, from Warhol's soup cans to Hirst's pickled shark, hear the stories behind the masterpieces, meet the artists as they really were, and discover the real point of modern art. You will learn: not all conceptual art is bollocks; Picasso is king (but Cezanne is better); Pollock is no drip; Dali painted with his moustache; a urinal changed the course of art, why your five year-old really couldn't do it. Refreshing, irreverent and always straightforward, What Are You Looking At? asks all the basic questions that you were too afraid to ask. Your next gallery trip is going to be a little less intimidating and a lot more interesting."
