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Meaning in the Visual Arts

10 best books like Meaning in the Visual Arts (Erwin Panofsky): A Little History of the World, On Painting, 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, The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and His Followers - Revised Edition, Inner Workings: Literary Essays 2000-2005, Art and Culture: Critical Essays, The Art of Art History: A Critical Anthology, On Art and Life

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...
On Painting
AuthorLeon Battista Alberti
ISBN0140433317
Artist, architect, poet and philosopher, Leon Battista Alberti revolutionized the history of art with his theories of perspective in On Painting (1435). Inspired by the order and beauty inherent in nature, his groundbreaking work sets out the principles of distance, dimension and proportion;...
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,...
The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and His Followers - Revised Edition
AuthorT.J. Clark
ISBN0691009031
The Paris of the 1860s and 1870s was supposedly a brand-new city, equipped with boulevards, cafés, parks, and suburban pleasure grounds—the birthplace of those habits of commerce and leisure that constitute "modern life." Questioning those who view Impressionism solely in terms of artistic...
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,...
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...
The Art of Art History: A Critical Anthology
AuthorDonald Preziosi
ISBN0192842420
The history of art has been written and rewritten since classical antiquity. Since the foundation of the modern discipline of art history in Germany in the late eighteenth century, debates about art and its histories have intensified. Historians, philosophers, psychologists, and anthropologists...
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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