The Grove Book of Art WritingMartin Gayford, Karen Wright Grove Press, 2000 - 620 páginas 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. |
Conteúdo
Preface | xi |
Introduction | xiii |
The Artist at Work | 1 |
Nature Lyric and Sublime | 33 |
Artists and Models | 57 |
Humanity in Art | 81 |
Interviews and Other Inquisitions | 105 |
Art and Psychology | 127 |
Art and Revelation | 305 |
The Practical Aspects of Art | 315 |
Shape Weight Mass and Volume in Art | 337 |
Art and Travel | 357 |
Drawing | 401 |
Artists and Patrons | 419 |
Imagination | 433 |
Emotion | 453 |
La Vie de Boheme | 149 |
Revolution Now | 177 |
Greek Meets Greek | 205 |
Every Picture Tells a Story | 223 |
In Search of Reality and the Ideal | 249 |
The Experience of Looking at Art | 273 |
The Materials of Art | 477 |
Artists and Critics | 503 |
Light Colour Space | 529 |
What is Art? | 553 |
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