Best of
Art-History

1960

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


Roger Shattuck - 1960
    Shattuck focuses on the careers of Alfred Jarry, Henri Rousseau, Erik Satie, and Guillaume Apollinaire, using the quartet as window into the era as he explores a culture whose influence is at the very foundation of modern art.

Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation


E.H. Gombrich - 1960
    It seeks to answer a simple question: why is there such a thing as style? The question may be simple but there is no easy answer, and Professor Gombrich's brilliant and wide-ranging exploration of the history and psychology of pictorial representation leads him into countless crucial areas. Gombrich examines, questions and re-evaluates old and new ideas on such matters as the imitation of nature, the function of tradition, the problem of abstraction, the validity of perspective and the interpretation of expression: all of which reveal that pictorial representation is far from being a straightforward matter. First published more than 40 years ago, Art and Illusion has lost none of its vitality and importance. In applying the findings of experimental science to a nuanced understanding of art and in tackling complex ideas and theoretical issues, Gombrich is rigorous.Yet he always retains a sense of wonder at the inexhaustible capacity of the human brain, and at the subtlety of the relationships involved in seeing the world and in making and seeing art. With profound knowledge and his exceptional gift for clear exposition, he advances each argument as an hypothesis to be tested. The problems of representation are forever fundamental to the history of art: Art and Illusion remains an essential text for anyone interested in understanding the complexities of art. For the sixth edition Professor Gombrich has written an entirely new 12-page preface, in which he makes use of the distinction between an image and a sign, so as to clarify his intentions in writing the book in the first place.

Renaissance and Renascences in Western Art


Erwin Panofsky - 1960
    Erwin Panofsky posits that there were "reanscences" prior to the widely known Renaissance that began in Italy in the 14th century. Whereas earlier renascences can be classified as revivals, the Renaissance was a unique instance that led to a wider cultural transformation.From the Back Cover:Panofsky's study brings welcome light into the darkness. His subject is the character of Renaissance art--in the strictest sense of the word-and its uniqueness in comparison with art produced during earlier revivals of the classical heritage.

Italian Painters of the Renaissance


Bernard Berenson - 1960
    

Frederic Remington's Own West - The Great Western Artist's Eyewitness Accounts Of His Expeditions & Adventures...


Frederic Remington - 1960
    His portraits and sculptures of Native Americans, cowboys, soldiers and their horses are a permanent artistic and historical record of our country's legendary past.

Rococo to Cubism in Art and Literature


Wylie Sypher - 1960
    AcknowledgmentsForeword1 Rococo: the idea of an order: Pope & the rococo situationFictions of the EnlightenmentRococo as a style Arabesque in verseGenre pittoresque2 Picturesque, romanticism, symbolism: The loss of a styleVisual picturesque: the pleasures of imaginationPsychological picturesque: association & reverieLuminism Correspondences3 Neo-mannerism: Style, stylization & blockageThe neo-mannerist condition The impressionist experimentNazarenes, Lyonnais & pre-RaphaelitesThe Nabis & art nouveau4 The Cubist perspective: The new world of relationships: camera & cinemaCubist drama The Cubist novel World without objects: neo-plasticism & poetryNotesBibliographical NoteIndex