Painting Enlightenment
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Painting Enlightenment
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Author : Paula Arai
language : en
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Release Date : 2019-09-10
Painting Enlightenment written by Paula Arai and has been published by Shambhala Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-10 with Religion categories.
A stunningly beautiful, full-color book of Buddhist paintings by twentieth-century Japanese artist Iwasaki Tsuneo, interpreted by Buddhist scholar Paula Arai. Little known during his lifetime, the Japanese biologist and artist Iwasaki Tsuneo (1917-2002) created a strikingly original and exquisitely intricate body of modern Buddhist artwork. His paintings depict themes ranging from classical Buddhist iconography to majestic views of our universe as revealed by science--all created with the use of painstakingly rendered miniature calligraphies of the Heart Sutra, one of the most important scriptures of Mahayana Buddhism. In this groundbreaking book, Paula Arai presents over fifty of Iwasaki's paintings, elucidating their Buddhist contexts and meanings as well as their intimate connections to Iwasaki's life as a war survivor, teacher, scientist, and devout Buddhist practitioner. Having been posthumously recognized by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Iwasaki's paintings are sure to be regarded as an innovative and heartfelt contribution to the artistic legacy of twentieth-century Buddhism.
Painterly Enlightenment
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Author : Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2005
Painterly Enlightenment written by Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Art categories.
"Kaufmann situates Maulbertsch as a fresco painter at a time of transition to easel painting, a colorist at a time when color was not fully appreciated by contemporary observers, and an interpreter of religious themes at a time when secular subjects were becoming more popular. Although he has been dismissed as an eccentric by previous scholars, Kaufmann's analysis shows Maulbertsch involved in the intellectual and aesthetic issues of his day."--BOOK JACKET.
Shadows And Enlightenment
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Author : Michael Baxandall
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 1997-01-01
Shadows And Enlightenment written by Michael Baxandall and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-01-01 with Art categories.
Shadows are holes in light. We see them all the time, and sometimes we notice them, but their part in our visual experience of the world is mysterious. In this book, an art historian draws on contemporary cognitive science, eighteenth-century theories of visual perception, and art history to discuss shadows and the visual knowledge they can offer.
Painting In Spain In The Age Of Enlightenment
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Author : Ronda Kasl
language : en
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date : 1997
Painting In Spain In The Age Of Enlightenment written by Ronda Kasl and has been published by University of Washington Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Art categories.
Distributed for Spanish Institute/Indianapolis Museum of Art, Exhibition catalog.
A Quest For Enlightenment
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Author : Christopher Heathcote
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan Education AU
Release Date : 2007
A Quest For Enlightenment written by Christopher Heathcote and has been published by Macmillan Education AU this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Artists categories.
The most publicly accessible art of the late Roger Kemp is perhaps the magnificent tapestries that hang in the great hall of the National Gallery of Victoria. This major figure of Australia's post war art world is the subject of Christopher Heathcote's latest book.
Rethinking Lessing S Laocoon
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Author : Michael Squire
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017
Rethinking Lessing S Laocoon written by Michael Squire and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Art categories.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing first published Laokoon, oder uber die Grenzen der Mahlerey und Poesie (Laocoon, or on the Limits of Painting and Poetry) in 1766. Over the last 250 years, Lessing's essay has exerted an incalculable influence on western critical thinking. Not only has it directed the history of post-Enlightenment aesthetics, it has also shaped the very practices of 'poetry' and 'painting' in a myriad of different ways. In this anthology of specially commissioned chapters - comprising the first ever edited book on the Laocoon in English - a range of leading critical voices has been brought together to reassess Lessing's essay on its 250th anniversary. Combining perspectives from multiple disciplines (including classics, intellectual history, philosophy, aesthetics, media studies, comparative literature, and art history), the book explores the Laocoon from a plethora of critical angles. Chapters discuss Lessing's interpretation of ancient art and poetry, the cultural backdrops of the eighteenth century, and the validity of the Laocoon's observations in the fields of aesthetics, semiotics, and philosophy. The volume shows how the Laocoon exploits Greek and Roman models to sketch the proper spatial and temporal 'limits' (Grenzen) of what Lessing called 'poetry' and 'painting'; at the same time it demonstrates how Lessing's essay is embedded within Enlightenment theories of art, perception, and historical interpretation, as well as within nascent eighteenth-century ideas about the 'scientific' study of Classical antiquity (Altertumswissenschaft). To engage critically with the Laocoon, and to make sense of its legacy over the last 250 years, consequently involves excavating various 'classical presences': by looking back to the Graeco-Roman past, the volume demonstrates, Lessing forged a whole new tradition of modern aesthetics.
The Zen Art Book
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Author : Stephen Addiss
language : en
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Release Date : 2009
The Zen Art Book written by Stephen Addiss and has been published by Shambhala Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Art categories.
"When a Zen master puts brush to paper, the resulting image is an expression of the quality of his or her mind. It is thus a teaching, intended to compassionately stop us in our tracks and to compel us to consider ultimate truth. Here, forty masterpieces of painting and calligraphy by renowned masters such as Hakuin Ekaku (1685–1768) and Gibon Sengai (1750–1837) are reproduced along with commentary that illuminates both the art and its teaching. The authors’ essays provide an excellent introduction to both the aesthetic and didactic aspects of this art that can be profound, perplexing, serious, humorous, and breathtakingly beautiful—often all within the same simple piece."--Publisher description.
Esthetics Of The Moment
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Author : Thomas M. Kavanagh
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2015-11-16
Esthetics Of The Moment written by Thomas M. Kavanagh and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-16 with Literary Criticism categories.
The literature and art of the French Enlightenment is everywhere marked by an intense awareness of the moment. The parallel projects of living in, representing, and learning from the moment run through the Enlightenment's endeavors as tokens of an ambition and a heritage imposing its only and ultimately impossible cohesion. In this illuminating study, Thomas M. Kavanagh argues that Enlightenment culture and its tensions, contradictions, and achievements flow from a subversive attention to the present as present, freed from the weight of past and future. Examining a wide sweep of literary and artistic culture, Kavanagh argues against the traditional view of the Age of Reason as one of coherent, recognizable ideology expressed in a structured narrative form. In literature, he analyzes the moment at work in the inebriating lightness of Marivaux's repartee; the new-found freedom of Lahontan's and Rousseau's ideals of a consciousness limited to the present; Diderot's championing of Epicurean epistemology; Graffigny's portrayal of abrupt cultural displacement; and Casanova's penchant for chance's redefining moment. The moment in art theory and practice is explored in such forms as de Piles's defense of color; Du Bos's foregrounding of perception; Watteau's indulgence in a corporeal present; Chardin's dismantling of mimesis; and Boucher's and Fragonard's thematics of desire.
The Arts Of Industry In The Age Of Enlightenment
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Author : Celina Fox
language : en
Publisher: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies
Release Date : 2009
The Arts Of Industry In The Age Of Enlightenment written by Celina Fox and has been published by Paul Mellon Centre for Studies this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Art categories.
During the 18th century, the arts of industry encompassed both liberal and mechanical realms--not simply the representation of work in the fine art of painting, but the skills involved in the processes of industry itself. Drawing on a wealth of primary sources, Celina Fox argues that mechanics and artisans used four principal means to describe and rationalize their work: drawing, model-making, societies, and publications. These four channels, which form the four central themes of this engrossing book, provided the basis for experimentation and invention, for explanation and classification, for validation and authorization, and for promotion and celebration, thus bringing them into the public domain and achieving progress as a true part of the Enlightenment.
Painting In Stone
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Author : Fabio Barry
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2020-10-27
Painting In Stone written by Fabio Barry and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-27 with Architecture categories.
A sweeping history of premodern architecture told through the material of stone Spanning almost five millennia, Painting in Stone tells a new history of premodern architecture through the material of precious stone. Lavishly illustrated examples include the synthetic gems used to simulate Sumerian and Egyptian heavens; the marble temples and mansions of Greece and Rome; the painted palaces and polychrome marble chapels of early modern Italy; and the multimedia revival in 19th-century England. Poetry, the lens for understanding costly marbles as an artistic medium, summoned a spectrum of imaginative associations and responses, from princes and patriarchs to the populace. Three salient themes sustained this “lithic imagination”: marbles as images of their own elemental substance according to premodern concepts of matter and geology; the perceived indwelling of astral light in earthly stones; and the enduring belief that colored marbles exhibited a form of natural—or divine—painting, thanks to their vivacious veining, rainbow palette, and chance images.