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The Art of Describing
Author | : Svetlana Alpers |
Publsiher | : John Murray |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Painting, Dutch |
ISBN | : 0719540631 |
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The art historian after Erwin Panofsky and Ernst Gombrich is not only participating in an activity of great intellectual excitement; he is raising and exploring issues which lie very much at the centre of psychology, of the sciences and of history itself. Svetlana Alpers's study of 17th-century Dutch painting is a splendid example of this excitement and of the centrality of art history among current disciples. Professor Alpers puts forward a vividly argued thesis. There is, she says, a truly fundamental dichotomy between the art of the Italian Renaissance and that of the Dutch masters. . . . Italian art is the primary expression of a 'textual culture, ' this is to say of a culture which seeks emblematic, allegorical or philosophical meanings in a serious painting. Alberti, Vasari and the many other theoreticians of the Italian Renaissance teach us to 'read' a painting, and to read it in depth so as to elicit and construe its several levels of signification. The world of Dutch art, by the contrast, arises from and enacts a truly 'visual culture.' It serves and energises a system of values in which meaning is not 'read' but 'seen, ' in which new knowledge is visually recorded.--George Steiner, Sunday Times There is no doubt that thanks to Alpers's highly original book the study of the Dutch masters of the seventeenth century will be thoroughly reformed and rejuvenated. . . . She herself has the verve, the knowledge, and the sensitivity to make us see familiar sights in a new light.--E. H. Gombrich, New York Review of Books
The Science of Describing
Author | : Brian W. Ogilvie |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 2008-09-15 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780226620862 |
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Out of the diverse traditions of medical humanism, classical philology, and natural philosophy, Renaissance naturalists created a new science devoted to discovering and describing plants and animals. Drawing on published natural histories, manuscript correspondence, garden plans, travelogues, watercolors, and drawings, The Science of Describing reconstructs the evolution of this discipline of description through four generations of naturalists. In the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, naturalists focused on understanding ancient and medieval descriptions of the natural world, but by the mid-sixteenth century naturalists turned toward distinguishing and cataloguing new plant and animal species. To do so, they developed new techniques of observing and recording, created botanical gardens and herbaria, and exchanged correspondence and specimens within an international community. By the early seventeenth century, naturalists began the daunting task of sorting through the wealth of information they had accumulated, putting a new emphasis on taxonomy and classification. Illustrated with woodcuts, engravings, and photographs, The Science of Describing is the first broad interpretation of Renaissance natural history in more than a generation and will appeal widely to an interdisciplinary audience.
The Art of Describing
Author | : Svetlana Alpers |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Painting, Dutch |
ISBN | : OCLC:239750332 |
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The Art of Description
Author | : Mark Doty |
Publsiher | : Graywolf Press |
Total Pages | : 119 |
Release | : 2014-12-02 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781555979188 |
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"It sounds like a simple thing, to say what you see," Mark Doty begins. "But try to find words for the shades of a mottled sassafras leaf, or the reflectivity of a bay on an August morning, or the very beginnings of desire stirring in the gaze of someone looking right into your eyes . . ." Doty finds refuge in the sensory experience found in poems by Blake, Whitman, Bishop, and others. The Art of Description is an invaluable book by one of America's most revered writers and teachers.
Describing Cinema
Author | : Timothy Corrigan |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780197625361 |
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Written by award-winning author Timothy Corrigan, Describing Cinema is an argument for the creative energies of writing in general and for the revelatory intersection of personal experience and film analysis. Describing Cinema demonstrates the pleasures and energies of precise discussions and detailed writing about the films that move us.
Letters from Italy Describing the Manners Customs Antiquities Paintings c of that Country in the Years MDCCLXX and MDCCLXXI to a Friend Residing in France
Author | : Lady Anna Riggs Miller |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 1776 |
Genre | : Italy |
ISBN | : OXFORD:555088947 |
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Tubular and Other Iron Girder Bridges Particularly Describing the Britannia and Conway Bridges
Author | : George Drysdale Dempsey |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1865 |
Genre | : Bridges, Tubular |
ISBN | : UIUC:30112046495815 |
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Elements of Botany and Vegetable Physiology including the characters of the natural families of plants Translated from the fourth edition by W Macgillivray
Author | : Achille RICHARD (Botanist.) |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 600 |
Release | : 1831 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : BL:A0019153129 |
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