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Art and Culture: Critical Essays

9 best books like Art and Culture: Critical Essays (Clement Greenberg): A Little History of the World, Ways of Seeing, Nothing If Not Critical: Selected Essays on Art and Artists, The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form, Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry, Modernism: The Lure of Heresy from Baudelaire to Beckett and Beyond, Inner Workings: Literary Essays 2000-2005, Meaning in the Visual Arts, The Story of Modern Art

A Little History of the World
AuthorE.H. Gombrich
ISBN0300108834
In 1935, with a doctorate in art history and no prospect of a job, the 26-year-old Ernst Gombrich was invited by a publishing acquaintance to attempt a history of the world for younger readers. Amazingly, he completed the task in an intense six weeks, and Eine kurze Weltgeschichte für junge Leser was...
Ways of Seeing
AuthorJohn Berger
ISBN0140135154
John Berger’s Classic Text on Art
John Berger's Ways of Seeing is one of the most stimulating and the most influential books on art in any language. First published in 1972, it was based on the BBC television series about which the (London) Sunday Times critic commented: "This is an eye-opener...
Nothing If Not Critical: Selected Essays on Art and Artists
AuthorRobert Hughes
From Holbein to Hockney, from Norman Rockwell to Pablo Picasso, from sixteenth-century Rome to 1980s SoHo, Robert Hughes looks with love, loathing, warmth, wit and authority at a wide range of art and artists, good, bad, past and present.
   As art critic for Time magazine, internationally...
The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form
AuthorKenneth Clark
This is a book for someone who sees Hercules and the Lion and thinks "look at how the artist is evoking the body's movement with the movement in the cloak" and not "I like the gold pubes!"



Bits:
"The drift of all popular art is towards the lowest common denominator, and, on the whole,...
Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry
AuthorGotthold Ephraim Lessing
ISBN0801831393
حاول الناقد الإلماني ليسنج في كتابه "لاؤوكون" أن يرد الشعر إلى فلسفة زمانية، والتصوير إلى فلسفة مكانية في محاولة لرصد أوجه الاختلاف بينهما، وقد دفعه ذلك...
Modernism: The Lure of Heresy from Baudelaire to Beckett and Beyond
AuthorPeter Gay
ISBN0393052052
Peter Gay's most ambitious endeavor since Freud explores the shocking modernist rebellion that, beginning in the 1840s, transformed art, literature, music and film with its assault on traditional forms. Beginning his epic study with Baudelaire, whose lurid poetry scandalized French stalwarts,...
Inner Workings: Literary Essays 2000-2005
AuthorJ.M. Coetzee
ISBN0670038652
A new collection of essays and literary criticism from Nobel Prize winner J. M. Coetzee In addition to being one of the most acclaimed and accomplished fiction writers in the world, J. M. Coetzee is also a literary critic of the highest caliber. As Derek Attridge observes in his illuminating introduction,...
Meaning in the Visual Arts
AuthorErwin Panofsky
ISBN0226645517
Since its original publication, Erwin Panofsky's Meaning in the Visual Arts has been standard reading for students of art history. It is both an introduction to the study of art and, for those with more specialized interests, a profound discussion of art and life in the Middle Ages and Renaissance....
The Story of Modern Art
AuthorNorbert Lynton
ISBN0714824224
کتاب اطلاعات نسبتن خوبی درباره‌ی هنرمندان مدرن ارائه می‌دهد
ولی دو اشکال اصلی داشت
۱. پرسش‌های اصلی کم مطرح می‌شود و وقتی مطرح می‌شوند نویسنده
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