Landscapes: John Berger on Art
10 best books like Landscapes: John Berger on Art (John Berger): Art and Ardor, Death, Dissection and the Destitute, 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, Born Under Saturn: The Character and Conduct of Artists, The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century, Vermeer, The Social History of Art: Volume 2: Renaissance, Mannerism, Baroque, Selected Writings on Art and Literature
| Author | Cynthia Ozick |
| ISBN | 0525481176 |
Recipient of the first Rea Award for the Short Story (in 1976; other winners Rea honorees include Lorrie Moore, John Updike, Alice Munro), an American Academy of Arts and Letters Mildred and Harold Strauss Living Award, and the PEN/Malamud award in 2008.
Upon publication of her 1983 The Shawl,...
Death, Dissection and the Destitute
| Author | Ruth Richardson |
| ISBN | 0226712400 |
In the early nineteenth century, body snatching was rife because the only corpses available for medical study were those of hanged murderers. With the Anatomy Act of 1832, however, the bodies of those who died destitute in workhouses were appropriated for dissection. At a time when such a procedure...
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,...
| Author | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing |
| ISBN | 0801831393 |
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...
| Author | Peter Gay |
| ISBN | 0393052052 |
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,...
| Author | Margot Wittkower |
| ISBN | 1590172132 |
A rare art history classic that The New York Times calls a "delightful, scholarly and gossipy romp through the character and conduct of artists from antiquity to the French Revolution."
Born Under Saturn is a classic work of scholarship written with a light and winning touch. Margot and Rudolf...
The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century
| Author | John Brewer |
| ISBN | 0374234582 |
This is a difficult book to review, mostly because I don’t consider myself qualified to properly criticize the amount of work that went into this well-crafted, well-written brick (and it is a brick – it’s a read-at-a-table-because-it’s-too-heavy-to-comfortably-hold-for-long-stretches-of-time...
| Author | Lawrence Gowing |
| ISBN | 0520212762 |
I simply adore Vermeer.
Many years ago I saw The Astronomer, at the Louvre, and I have never looked back. Since then I have seen both Lady Standing at a Virginal and Lady Seated at a Virginal [National Gallery], The Allegory of Faith, Portrait of a Young Womand, Woman with a Water Jug and A Girl Asleep...
| Author | Arnold Hauser |
| ISBN | 0394701151 |
First published in 1951, Arnold Hauser's commanding work presents an account of the development and meaning of art, from its origins in the Stone Age through to the "Film Age." This new edition of a classic work explores historical and social movements and the effects these have had on the production...
| Author | Charles Baudelaire |
| ISBN | 0140446060 |
Before publishing the sensuous and scandalous poems of Les Fleurs du Mal, Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) had already earned respect as a forthright and witty critic of art and literature. This stimulating selection of criticism reveals him as a worshipper at the altar of beauty, illuminating his belief...
| Author | Erwin Panofsky |
| ISBN | 0226645517 |
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....
I read this as part of a course on Marx and Dialectics. It is important to realize that Marx' communism is not that of any iteration of the Soviet Union, or any other modern "communist" state. This is fundamental political theory. It incorporates the very critical component of history, and utilizes the...
| Author | Roberto Calasso |
| ISBN | 0224082078 |
The eighteenth-century Venetian painter Giambattista Tiepolo spent his life executing commissions in churches, palaces, and villas, often covering vast ceilings like those at the Würzburg Residenz in Germany and the Royal Palace in Madrid with frescoes that are among the glories of Western art....
| Author | Peter Murray |
| ISBN | 0500200084 |
The Renaissance began in Italy, but it grew out of European civilization, with roots in Antiquity, in Christian dogma, and in Byzantium. The artistic ferment which had taken hold of Florence by 1420 was also reflected in the regional schools of Siena, Umbria, Mantua and Rome; and the new ideas spread...
This broad cultural history of self-portraiture brilliantly maps the history of the genre, from the earliest myths of Narcissus and the Christian tradition of "bearing witness" to the prolific self-image-making of today's contemporary artists. Focusing on a perennially popular subject, the...
| Author | Anthony Bailey |
| ISBN | 0805067183 |
Set against the dramatic backdrop of the "golden age" of Dutch culture, the story of one of the world's most beloved - and most elusive - painters.
In the seventeenth century, industry and commerce thrived in the Dutch city of Delft, as did art and culture. In 1653, the twenty-one-year-old son...
| Author | Sigmund Freud |
| ISBN | 0804729735 |
Despite Freud's enormous influence on twentieth-century interpretations of the humanities, there has never before been in English a complete collection of his writings on art and literature. These fourteen essays cover the entire range of his work on these subjects, in chronological order beginning...
| Author | Howard Hibbard |
| ISBN | 0064301486 |
In this masterly work, Howard Hibbard relates Michelangelo’s art to his life and the times in which he lived, relying on the earliest biographies and the latest scholarly research as well as on Michelangelo’s own letters and poems. What emerges is both a perspective appraisal of his work and a revealing...
| Author | Laura Cumming |
| ISBN | 0007118430 |
Focusing on the art of self-portraiture, this effortlessly engaging exploration of the lives of artists sheds fascinating light on some of the most extraordinary portraits in art history.
Self-portraits catch your eye. They seem to do it deliberately. Walk into any art gallery and they...
| Author | Ingrid D. Rowland |
| ISBN | 0809095246 |
Giordano Bruno is one of the great figures of early modern Europe, and one of the least understood. Ingrid D. Rowland’s pathbreaking life of Bruno establishes him once and for all as a peer of Erasmus, Shakespeare, and Galileo, a thinker whose vision of the world prefigures ours.
By the time...
| Author | Virginia Woolf |
| ISBN | 0199212813 |
The first time I read a Woolf novel (Mrs Dalloway) I screamed. I hated it. I hated every word and I hated the inaccessible nature of her style. I wanted no more to do with her, ever again.
Though somehow I found myself reading a book of her short stories and I was amazed at the sharp imagery she conjured...
| Author | Oscar Wilde |
| ISBN | 0140433872 |
Illuminating essays on philsophy, literature, soceity, and art by one of Ireland's greatest wits
Oscar Wilde--witty raconteur, flamboyant hedonist, and self-destructive lover--is most familiar as the author of brilliant comedies, including The Importance of Being Earnest, An Ideal...
| Author | Fiona MacCarthy |
| ISBN | 0571228615 |
From the prize winning author of William Morris comes a new biography of Edward Burne-Jones, the greatest British artist of the second half of the nineteenth century.
The angels on our Christmas cards, the stained glass in our churches, the great paintings in our galleries - Edward Burne-Jones's...
يرى كروتشه أن الفن رؤية وحدس كموضوع خارجي (شيء أو شخص) أو كموضوع داخلي (عاطفة أو مزاج)، يعبر عنه الفنان باللغة أو اللون أو النغم أو الحجر، ولاينفصل التعبير...
إننا نشير إلى قطعة موسيقية لبيتهوفن أو لوحة لسيزان أو قصيدة لابن الرومي أو رواية لنجيب محفوظ أو تمثال لبرانكوزي أو مسرحية لبرناردشو وأعمال أخرى كهذه كأعمال...
