The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and His Followers - Revised Edition

7 best books like The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and His Followers - Revised Edition (T.J. Clark): A Little History of the World, The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form, The Art of the Pre-Raphaelites, The Banquet Years: The Origins of the Avant-Garde in France, 1885 to World War I, Meaning in the Visual Arts, Studies in Iconology: Humanistic Themes in the Art of the Renaissance, Art and Culture: Critical Essays

A Little History of the World

Author	E.H. Gombrich
ISBN	0300108834

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

Author

Kenneth 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,...

The Art of the Pre-Raphaelites

Author	Elizabeth Prettejohn
ISBN	0691070571

Though always controversial in art circles, the Pre-Raphaelites have also always been extremely popular with museum goers. This accessible new study provides the most comprehensive view of the movement to date. It shows us why, a century and a half later, Pre-Raphaelite art retains its power to fascinate,...

The Banquet Years: The Origins of the Avant-Garde in France, 1885 to World War I

Author	Roger Shattuck
ISBN	0394704150

The definitive chronicle of the origins of French avant-garde literature and art, Roger Shattuck's classic portrays the cultural bohemia of turn-of-the-century Paris who carried the arts into a period of renewal and accomplishment and laid the groundwork for Dadaism and Surrealism. Shattuck...

Meaning in the Visual Arts

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....

Studies in Iconology: Humanistic Themes in the Art of the Renaissance

Author	Erwin Panofsky
ISBN	0064300250

Gran bel saggio, grande classico degli studi sull'iconologia (e della storia dell'arte in genere).Dopo una ricca introduzione dove Panofsky spiega la genesi dell'opera e il suo metodo di lavoro, si passa a una serie di saggi dedicati, nell'ordine, dine, a:

- Preistoria umana in due cicli...

Art and Culture: Critical Essays

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...