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The 12-hour art expert : everything you need to know about art in a dozen masterpieces
\"His novel, The Art Thief, was a bestseller in five countries and is translated into 17 languages. His The Art of Forgery, Stealing the Mystic Lamb and Slovenology were international bestsellers. His book Collector of Lives: Giorgio Vasari and the Invention of Art was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Charney is now a professor at University of Ljubljana in Slovenia, where Charney has lived for many years\"-- Provided by publisher.
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A New Antiquity
We tend to think of sixteenth-century European artistic theory
as separate from the artworks displayed in the non-European
sections of museums. Alessandra Russo argues otherwise. Instead of
considering the European experience of \"New World\" artifacts and
materials through the lenses of \"curiosity\" and \"exoticism,\" Russo
asks a different question: What impact have these works had on the
way we currently think about-and theorize-the arts?
Centering her study on a vast corpus of early modern textual and
visual sources, Russo contends that the subtlety and inventiveness
of the myriad of American, Asian, and African creations that were
pillaged, exchanged, and often eventually destroyed in the context
of Iberian colonization-including sculpture, painting, metalwork,
mosaic, carving, architecture, and masonry-actually challenged and
revolutionized sixteenth-century European definitions of what art
is and what it means to be human. In this way, artifacts coming
from outside Europe between 1400 and 1600 played a definitive role
in what are considered distinctively European transformations: the
redefinition of the frontier between the \"mechanical\" and the
\"liberal\" arts and a new conception of the figure of the
artist.
Original and convincing, A New Antiquity is a
pathbreaking study that disrupts existing conceptions of
Renaissance art and early modern humanity. It will be required
reading for art historians specializing in the Renaissance,scholars
of Iberian and Latin American cultures and global studies, and
anyone interested in anthropology and aesthetics.
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A history of art
\"This title examines Western art's original European roots, the ways and styles in which it has expanded and changed, and how it has grown into such an integral part of Western culture.\"--Publisher's website.
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The museum of the senses : experiencing art and collections
Traditionally sight has been the only sense with a ticket to enter the museum. The same is true of histories of art, in which artworks are often presented as purely visual objects. In The Museum of the Senses Constance Classen offers a new way of approaching the history of art through the senses, revealing how people used to handle, smell and even taste collection pieces. Topics range from the tactile power of relics to the sensuous allure of cabinets of curiosities, and from the feel of a Rembrandt to the scent of Monet's garden. The book concludes with a discussion of how contemporary museums are stimulating the senses through interactive and multimedia displays. Classen, a leading authority on the cultural history of the senses, has produced a fascinating study of sensual and emotional responses to artefacts from the middle ages to the present. The Museum of the Senses is an important read for anyone interested in the history of art as well as for students and researchers in cultural studies and museum studies.
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A new way of seeing : the history of art in 57 works
An exciting new critical voice explores what it is that makes great art great through an illuminating analysis of the world's artistic masterpieces.
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Old Masters Worldwide
As a result of the Napoleonic wars, vast numbers of Old Master paintings were released on to the market from public and private collections across continental Europe. The knock-on effect was the growth of the market for Old Masters from the 1790s up to the early 1930s, when the Great Depression put an end to its expansion. This book explores the global movement of Old Master paintings and investigates some of the changes in the art market that took place as a result of this new interest. Arguably, the most important phenomenon was the diminishing of the traditional figure of the art agent and the rise of more visible, increasingly professional, dealerships; firms such as Colnaghi and Agnew’s in Britain, Goupil in France and Knoedler in the USA, came into existence. Old Masters Worldwide explores the ways in which the pioneering practices of such businesses contributed to shape a changing market.
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Looking at art with Alex Katz
Look at art through the eyes of a painter in this guide to the most significant artists in history, in which Katz describes his best-loved works by Edvard Munch, Vincent van Gogh, Joan Mirلo, Peter Doig, Francis Bacon, and Jackson Pollock, among others.
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The legacies of Bernard Smith : essays on Australian art, history and cultural politics
It has been widely asserted that Bernard Smith established the discipline of art history in Australia. He was the founding professor of contemporary art and the directory of the Power Institute at the University of Sydney, published the classic art text Australian Painting.
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Art : the definitive visual guide
Provides a guided tour around 2,500 of the world's most influential painting and sculptures, from cave paintings to modern masterpieces.
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Abduction in Art Appreciation
Individuals usually go to art museums to enjoy artworks. Generally, in order to appreciate the art in museums, a brief summary of certain information is provided as a caption. Viewers usually read these descriptions to aid their understanding. To provide broader technical support for this activity, several researchers have proposed a protocol for art appreciation. For instance, Leder et al. proposed a stage model for aesthetic processing, which combines aspects of understanding and cognitive mastering with affective and emotional processing. We have also conducted several experiments in order to determine the effect of information during art appreciation. For instance, we conducted an experiment where information about a piece of art was offered gradually and incrementally. In the experiment, the participants seemed to be able to gradually understand the artwork according to the obtained information. Our observations indicate that they tried to create stories for the artworks in order to explain the obtained information. In addition, for the abstract artworks, if they saw the title, they understood the artworks within their own explanation in the context of the title. Our research framework suggests that we can consider this observed framework as a process of abduction, where the incremental presentation of details about art helps a user form a hypothesis about the piece of art. In this paper, we will analyze artwork appreciation and understanding with this framework from the viewpoint of abduction.
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