Grove Book of Art Writing, The

Grove Book of Art Writing, The

Brilliant Words on Art from Pliny the Elder to Damien Hirst

Gayford, Martin / Wright, Karen

$311.00 MXN

Sinopsis

Discussing the visual arts successfully in words is often held to be an impossible task. In fact it is merely difficult. And since the days of the ancient Greeks, many writers of all kinds have taken up the challenge -- not only art critics but novelists, poets, gossips, artists, and essayists. In The Grove Book of Art Writing, Martin Gayford and Karen Wright have collected the best and most lively attempts to pin it down, in a single-volume cornucopia of writing on art. From Vasari and Freud on why Mona Lisa smiles, to Adolf Hitler on the degeneracy of modernism, to Picasso on how to measure the depiction of the female body, art historians, art critics, artists, as well as the aforementioned weigh in on what makes art so wonderful, frustrating, what makes it art. From the deadly serious to the deeply witty, from the sublime to the ridiculous, The Grove Book of Art Writing is an eloquent compendium of insight into the diverse ways the visual arts can be seen and thought about.

Editorial:
Grove Press
Año de edición:
2000
Materia
Historia del arte
ISBN:
978-0-8021-3720-3
Páginas:
640
Encuadernación:
Pasta blanda
Idioma:
Inglés

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