Pierre Jean David, besser bekannt unter dem Namen David d'Angers, gehört zu den großen Bildhauern des Klassizismus. Seine Verehrung für Goethe, Alexander von Humboldt, Carl Gustav Carus und Caspar David Friedrich fand Ausdruck in zahlreichen Porträtbüsten und -medaillons. Mit großer Sensibilität für das Wesen der dargestellten Persönlichkeiten - aber auch oft mit verherrlichendem Pathos - verlieh David d'Angers den Geistesgrößen seiner Zeit eine Aura von überzeitlicher Genialität.
„Ein Bild rührt uns, als Kunstwerk betrachtet, nur durch das, was wirklich dargestellt ist. Was wir uns dabey denken, gehört nicht ihm, sondern uns an." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) „Mein Gemälde beruht auf der Tatsache, dass nur dasjenige anwesend ist, was auch gese-hen werden kann." (Frank Stella) Mehr als eineinhalb Jahrhunderte liegen diese Zitate auseinander, und beide fordern das selbstbezügliche, deshalb ohne Zusatzwissen und ohne Bezugnahme auf nicht im Bild Sichtbares verständliche K...
The second of three text books, published in association with the Open University, which offer an innovatory exploration of art and visual culture. Through carefully chosen themes and topics rather than through a general survey, the volumes approach the process of looking at works of art in terms of their audiences, functions and cross-cultural contexts. While focused on painting, sculpture and architecture, it also explores a wide range of visual culture in a variety of media and methods. "1600...
Samuel Palmer was one of the most original artists Britain has produced. Still a teen when he was plucked from "the pit of modern art," he embarked on an intensely personal journey that led to an astonishing outpouring of mystical drawings and later to England's first artistic colony, "The Ancients," based in the idyllic landscape of Shoreham. This book reprints the first major writings on Palmer, which were published for a retrospective exhibition in 1881. They include a biography by his son, A...
A painter of the elements, J. M. W. Turner depicted in his landscapes natural forces such as wind, fire, and water with an emphasis on their considerable destructive power and man s raw vulnerability in the face of it. And be they storm scenes, avalanches, or disasters at sea, Turner s oil paintings and watercolors were also informed by contemporary research in the natural sciences.Conceived by the Bucerius Kunst Forum in Hamburg and edited by leading Turner experts, this volume comprises eighty...
In the Biedermeier period, scenes and idylls of the early works by Carl Spitzweg (1808-1885), odd misfits, soldiers, monks and maids are all featured in the middle-class provincial milieu of the time. Informed by a free painting style, however, the landscapes of his late works anticipate Impressionism. Comprising 430 objects, the Werner Friedrich Ott Collection in the Stadtmuseum Ingolstadt includes, alongside paintings and drawings by the famous artist, an extensive Historicist collection of ar...
Pre-Raphaelite Masculinities (The Nineteenth Century)
Drawing on recent theoretical developments in gender and men�s studies, Pre-Raphaelite Masculinities shows how the ideas and models of masculinity were constructed in the work of artists and writers associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement. Paying particular attention to the representation of non-normative or alternative masculinities, the contributors take up the multiple versions of masculinity in Dante Gabriel Rossetti�s paintings and poetry, masculine violence in William Morris�s late rom...
A revealing exploration of how prescient nineteenth-century artists, writers, and scientists began to sound the alarm on climate crisis Against a backdrop of industrialization and scientific development that reshaped humanity’s relationship to the planet, nineteenth-century artists and writers began to express a novel perception of humanity’s place in, and impact on, the natural world. This essential volume traces, in art and literature, the growing understanding of the industrial world’s ef...
Hogarth to Turner (National Gallery London Publications)
by Louise Govier
This book traces some key developments in British 18th- and 19th-century painting, focusing in particular on the outstanding portraits and landscapes in the National Gallery’s collection. Compare what rival portrait painters Thomas Gainsborough and Sir Joshua Reynolds offered their sitters: the choice between shimmering colours and expressive brushwork, or ennobling classical references. Their techniques and philosophical ideals would be challenged and developed even further by the next generati...
In London in 1770 Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–1799) remarked, ‘What a work could be written on Shakespeare, Hogarth and Garrick! There is something similar in the genius of all three.’ Two-and-a-half centuries on, Robin Simon’s highly original and illuminating book takes up the challenge. William Hogarth (1697–1764) and David Garrick (1717–1779) closely associated themselves with Shakespeare, embodying a relationship between plays, painting and performance that had been understood since A...
A catalog to an exhibition that explores the influence of English painting on French art in the nineteenth century.
This is your A to Z guide to art! From cave paintings to pop art and modern masterpieces, this absorbing and beautiful art encyclopedia explores the development of art in spectacular detail. Here's what you'll find inside the pages of this visually stunning art book:- Covers every major movement in art from prehistory to the present day- Each movement is tracked in a visual timeline that showcases its key paintings and notable artists and explains its context - the major events in its evolution-...
Walter Leistikow − Briefe von 1889 bis 1908
145 Briefe des Malers, darunter 54 bisher unveröffentlichte, in privaten und öffentlichen Archiven entdeckte Schriftstücke, zeichnen ein facettenreiches Bild von Leistikows Leben und Wirken. Seine Schreiben an berühmte Zeitgenossen wie Gerhart Hauptmann, Theodor Wolff, Harry Graf Kessler, Edvard Munch und Richard Dehmel entführen in das kulturelle Treiben Berlins und offenbaren vergnügliche, nachdenkliche sowie alltägliche Begebenheiten. Neben den vollständig abgedruckten und kenntnisreich komme...
Die Werke von Valentin Serov (1865-1911) markieren den Beginn moderner russischer Malerei. Er zeigte sie bei den Secessionen in München, Berlin und Wien, in der Weltausstellung und im Salon d’Automne in Paris sowie auf der Biennale in Venedig und in der Internationalen Ausstellung in Rom. Er gehörte der progressiven Zeitschrift Mir iskusstva an und feierte später mit deren Gründer Diaghilev Erfolge als Bühnenbildner der Ballets Russes. An der Moskauer Kunsthochschule unterrichtete er Petrov-Vodk...
Inventions of the Studio, Renaissance to Romanticism (Bettie Allison Rand Lectures in Art History)
Between the time of Durer and that of Delacroix, the place the artist worked transformed into what nineteenth-century writers would call the ""studio."" The transformation implied a new kind of exchange between the workplaces of the artisan and the intellectual: the crafting of images provided a model for new kinds of reflection, and the imagined site of artisanship a new setting for meditation. Eventually the studio, as a subject of painting, would be one through which artists would make their...
Material, Technik, Ästhetik und Wissenschaft der Farbe 1750-1850 (Kunstwissenschaftliche Studien)
by Annik Pietsch
Die Studie beschäftigt sich mit den tiefgreifenden Veränderungen von Materialien und Techniken der Malerei sowie den Verschiebungen ästhetischer und wissenschaftlicher Vorstellungen zur Farbe zwischen 1750 und 1850. In dieser Zeitspanne ist ein Bruch mit der Tradition festzustellen, der dazu geführt hat, dass die Gemälde nicht nur eine Vielfalt an Maltechniken und -materialien aufweisen, sondern auch ungewöhnliche Alterungsschäden offenbaren. Annik Pietsch untersucht, ob Interdependenzen zwische...
William Blake. La Divine Comédie de Dante. L'ensemble de dessins
by Sebastian Schutze and Maria Antonietta Terzoli
Celebrated around the world as a literary monument, The Divine Comedy, completed in 1321 and written by Dante Alighieri (1265–1321), is widely considered the greatest work ever composed in the Italian language. The epic poem describes Dante’s journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven, representing, on a deeper level, the soul’s path towards salvation. In the last few years of his life, Romantic poet and artist William Blake (1757–1827) produced 102 illustrations for Dante’s masterwork, from pe...
Breadth & Quality: Oil Studies, Watercolours & Drawings by James Ward RA
by Lowell Libson
Heilende Kunst
The hype surrounding alternative medicine, the widespread goal of healthy eating and sport, the tendency to flee the city for the countryside, not least the current climate movement and its aim to bring about a social rethink through an individually sustainable lifestyle, are more relevant today than ever before. Nevertheless, where does this longing for a more wholesome life come from? The volume examines various forms of the search for salvation in art and society since the end of the 19th cen...
Lives of Blake
by Henry Crabb Robinson, Charlotte Bury, Benjamin Heath Malkin, John Varley, and Alan Cunningham
William Blake (1757-1827), hailed as 'the glorious luminary' by William Rossetti, is one of the great mystics in the history of Western art. His hallucinatory paintings, watercolours and, in particular, the illustrations he made for his books of poetry are instantly recognisable, and have inspired generations of artists in his wake. Although he was largely ignored by his contemporaries, or derided as mad, a number of perceptive critics and commentators took great interest in both the man and his...