Michelangelo
7 best books like Michelangelo (Howard Hibbard): The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form, Language & Silence: Essays on Language, Literature & the Inhuman, The Principles of Art, The Social History of Art: Volume 2: Renaissance, Mannerism, Baroque, The Grand Design: Strategy and the U.S. Civil War, A Face to the World: On Self Portraits, Art and Culture: Critical Essays
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 | George Steiner |
| ISBN | 0300074719 |
How do we evaluate the power and utility of language when it has been made to articulate falsehoods in certain totalitarian regimes or has been charged with vulgarity and imprecision in a mass-consumer democracy? How will language react to the increasingly urgent claims of more exact speech such as...
| Author | R.G. Collingwood |
| ISBN | 0195002091 |
This treatise on aesthetics begins by showing that the word "art" is used as a name not only for "art proper" but also for certain things which are "art falsely so called." These are craft or skill, magic, and amusement, each of which, by confusion with art proper, generates a false aesthetic theory. In...
| 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 | Donald Stoker |
| ISBN | 0195373057 |
Despite the abundance of books on the Civil War, not one has focused exclusively on what was in fact the determining factor in the outcome of the conflict: differences in Union and Southern strategy. In The Grand Design, Donald Stoker provides for the first time a comprehensive and often surprising...
| 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 | Clement Greenberg |
| ISBN | 0807066818 |
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...
