Pictures and Tears - 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 Pictures and Tears write by James Elkins. This book was released on 2005-08-02. Pictures and Tears available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Art Does art leave you cold? And is that what it's supposed to do? Or is a painting meant to move you to tears? Hemingway was reduced to tears in the midst of a drinking bout when a painting by James Thurber caught his eye. And what's bad about that? In Pictures and Tears, art historian James Elkins tells the story of paintings that have made people cry. Drawing upon anecdotes related to individual works of art, he provides a chronicle of how people have shown emotion before works of art in the past, and a meditation on the curious tearlessness with which most people approach art in the present. Deeply personal, Pictures and Tears is a history of emotion and vulnerability, and an inquiry into the nature of art. This book is a rare and invaluable treasure for people who love art. Also includes an 8-page color insert.
Pictures and Tears
Pictures and Tears - 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 Pictures and Tears write by James Elkins. This book was released on 2005-08-02. Pictures and Tears available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This deeply personal account of emotion and vulnerability draws upon anecdotes related to individual works of art to present a chronicle of how people have shown emotion before works of art in the past.
What Photography Is
What Photography Is - 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 Photography Is write by James Elkins. This book was released on 2011-04-26. What Photography Is available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In What Photography Is, James Elkins examines the strange and alluring power of photography in the same provocative and evocative manner as he explored oil painting in his best-selling What Painting Is. In the course of an extended imaginary dialogue with Roland Barthes's Camera Lucida, Elkins argues that photography is also about meaninglessness--its apparently endless capacity to show us things that we do not want or need to see--and also about pain, because extremely powerful images can sear permanently into our consciousness. Extensively illustrated with a surprising range of images, the book demonstrates that what makes photography uniquely powerful is its ability to express the difficulty--physical, psychological, emotional, and aesthetic--of the act of seeing.
The Pictures; the Bethroning
The Pictures; the Bethroning - 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 The Pictures; the Bethroning write by Lewis Tieck. This book was released on 2018-04-04. The Pictures; the Bethroning available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Reproduction of the original: The Pictures; the Bethroning by Lewis Tieck
The Topography of Tears
The Topography of Tears - 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 The Topography of Tears write by . This book was released on 2017-05-02. The Topography of Tears available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “When you first view Rose-Lynn Fisher’s photographs, you might think you’re looking down at the world from an airplane, at dunes, skyscrapers or shorelines. In fact, you’re looking at her tears. . . . [There’s] poetry in the idea that our emotional terrain bears visual resemblance to the physical world; that our tears can look like the vistas we see out an airplane window. Fisher’s images are the only remaining trace of these places, which exist during a moment of intense feeling—and then vanish.” —NPR “[A] delicate, intimate book. . . . In The Topography of Tears photographer Rose-Lynn Fisher shows us a place where language strains to express grief, longing, pride, frustration, joy, the confrontation with something beautiful, the confrontation with an onion.” —Boston Globe Does a tear shed while chopping onions look different from a tear of happiness? In this powerful collection of images, an award-winning photographer trains her optical microscope and camera on her own tears and those of men, women, and children, released in moments of grief, pain, gratitude, and joy, and captured upon glass slides. These duotone photographs reveal the beauty of recurring patterns in nature and present evocative, crystalline imagery for contemplation. Underscored by poetic captions, they translate the mysterious act of crying into an atlas mapping the structure and magnificence of our interior lives. Rose-Lynn Fisher is an artist and author of the International Photography Award-winning studies Bee and The Topography of Tears. Her photographs are exhibited in galleries, festivals, and museums across the world and have been featured by the Dr. Oz Show, NPR, Smithsonian, Harper’s, New Yorker, Time, Wired, Reader’s Digest, Discover, Brain Pickings, and elsewhere. She received her BFA from Otis Art Institute and lives in Los Angeles.
