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Inner Workings: Literary Essays 2000-2005

9 best books like Inner Workings: Literary Essays 2000-2005 (J.M. Coetzee): The Story of Art, A Little History of the World, 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, Meaning in the Visual Arts, The Story of Modern Art, Art and Culture: Critical Essays, On Art and Life

The Story of Art
AuthorE.H. Gombrich
This text is the 16th revised and updated edition of this introduction to art, from the earliest cave paintings to experimental art. Eight new artists from the modern period have been introduced. They are: Corot, Kollwitz, Nolde, de Chirico, Brancussi, Magritte, Nicolson and Morandi. A sequence...
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...
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!"



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"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,...
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
دغدغه...
Art and Culture: Critical Essays
AuthorClement Greenberg
ISBN0807066818
As far as art criticism goes this is the good stuff, but I have been gradually lowering my expectations of what art criticism can accomplish. Greenberg is the most well known and influential American art critic of the 20th century, as David Sylvester was in the UK. I enjoy reading both of them but I've gradually...
On Art and Life
AuthorJohn Ruskin
ISBN0143036289
Nietzsche said that with the death of the sacred, Beauty would continue, albeit accidentally.

Mr. John Ruskin, however, set his sights on an earlier age, developing six principles that could be applied to gothic beauty, and in so doing, in my eyes, set down the principles for Beauty in general.

The...
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