Best of
Art-History

1968

Theories of Modern Art: A Source Book by Artists and Critics


Herschel B. Chipp - 1968
    Chipp's Theories of Modern Art: A Source Book By Artists and Critics is a collection of texts from letters, manifestos, notes and interviews. Sources include, as the title says, artists and critics—some expected, like van Gogh, Gauguin, Apollinaire, Mondrian, Greenberg, just to name a few—and some less so: Trotsky and Hitler, in the section on Art and Politics. The book is a wonderful resource and insight into the way artists think and work.

Marcel Duchamp: Appearance Stripped Bare


Octavio Paz - 1968
    The Waterfall, 2. The Illuminating Gas.

On Divers Arts: The Foremost Medieval Treatis on Painting, Glassmaking and Metalwork


Theophilus - 1968
    Offering an essential understanding of pre-Renaissance art and technology, the Benedictine author details pigments, glass blowing, stained glass, gold and silver work, and more — information of great importance to craftsmen and historians of art and science. Includes 34 illustrations.

The World Of Manet 1832 1883


Pierre Schneider - 1968
    

The World of Goya: 1746-1828


Richard Schickel - 1968
    

The Brandywine Tradition


Henry C. Pitz - 1968
    With sixteen color and thirty two black and white plates.

Uffizi: Florence


Newsweek - 1968
    A tour through the renowned Gallery, as offered in this volume, is a walk back in history to those glorious days.The Uffizi--a legend of beauty that boasts one of the richest artistic patrimonies in the world--houses magnificent examples of the works of nearly all the artists who played significant roles in the history of Western art. You can admire here superb reproductions of the paintings of the Early Renaissance masters, Giotto, Cimabue, Duccio and Simone Martini; here are all the great innovators, from Masaccio and Paolo Uccello to Piero della Francesca, from Leonardo da Vinci to Raphael and Michelangelo; here you can compare the geometric vigorr of Domenico Veneziano with the lyric splendor of Sandro Botticelli; here you can examine the opulent richness of Titian and Tintoretto and Caravaggio and the warm perfection of Bronzino and Pontormo. Nor are the Northern painters neglected, with the inclusion of splendid examples from the Gallery's collection of German, French, Dutch and Flemish paintings.Your personal escort will be the Uffizi's curator, Luisa Becherucci, the woman who rushed to "her" museum in November, 1966, amid the pandemonium of devastated Florence to salvage works of art endangered by the rising waters of the flooded Arno River. Prof. Becherucci will guide you through the palace begun in 1559 for Cosimo I de' Medici, which served as Offices (Uffizi) for the Florentine judiciary, and that now houses the world's finest collection of Renaissance art.This beautiful volume includes representative works of Italy's most prestigious museum and thus gives the reader a vivid idea of the Uffizi's vast artistic heritage. Each color reproduction is accompanied by a caption giving all the pertinent information about the artist and the work of art itself--its date, medium and technique, size and its history. In addition, each illustration is the subject of a critical analysis prepared especially for this volume by one of Europe's leading art historians.

Prado, Madrid (Great Museums Of The World)


Newsweek - 1968
    

National Gallery/Washington: Great Museums of the World


Newsweek - 1968
    From its nucleus, the twenty-one stupendous masterworks once owned by Catherine the Great of Russia (acquired through intermediaries from the Hermitage by Andrew Mellon) it has grown to encompass the centuries from the 13th to the present--by its very splendor attracting even greater gifts, including the Widener and Kress collections and the glories of French Impressionism presented by Chester Dale.Now within these pages the reader, like the visitor entering the Gallery's classical porticoes and great rotunda, will find himself on a guided tour of the collections--arranged as in the museum itself to illumine the evolution of Western painting from Cimabue to Picasso.Here he will find the whole range, from the great Hermitage treasures--the jewellike 15th-century Annunciation of Jan van Eyck, the Perugino Crucifixion with it's noble landscape, that most smptuous Titian Venus with a Mirror--to the quieter pleasures of 18th-century English landscape painting, and the haunting beauty of the portrait of Ginevra de' Benci (precursor to the Mona Lisa), the only Leonardo in the Western hemisphere.Included are the germinal masterpieces of Flanders, Germany, Holland and Spain--portraits by Cranach, Duer, Holbein; the splendid artifice of Rubens and Van Dyck; the supremely human art of Rembrandt, and those luminous miracles, the interiors of Vermeer.After these marvels, a panorama of French painting to be seen in few museums outside of France--here is the Classicism of Poussin and Claude, the naturalism of Le Nain and Chardin, the marvelous Watteau Italian Comedians, with its Rococo composition and pervasive melancholy. And on to Ingres, Delacroix, Courbet; to Renoir--all light, color and air; to Manet, whose revolutionary Gare Saint-Lazare is shown in a beautiful double-spread; to Degas, Monet, Cezanne, Matisse, Gauguin...***National Gallery/Washington is the fourth volume in an extraordinary new series of art books presenting, as on a guided tour, the Great Museums of the World. Each will present the museum's most important and memorable works of art--all especially photographed for this series and all reproduced in superb full color by the finest European printing processes. Each volume will have an introduction by the Museum's Director, and a lucid text commenting on the historical and artistic significance of the works and their creators, prepared by a distinguished staff of European art historians. All are being translated for American connoisseurs and students under the aegis of Thomas B. Hess, Editor of Art News.Other titles in the series:Louvre/ParisBritish Museum/LondonVatican Museums/RomePrado/Madrid

Heaven and Hell in Western Art


Robert Hughes - 1968
    This was not always the case. For a millennium & a half the worst horrors were theological. The fear of hell & the hope of heaven gave shape to some of the greatest achievements of the pictorial art of Europe. On this eschatological basis, Australian-born critic Robert Hughes has compiled a catalogue of terrors & delights, drawn mainly from Italian, French, Spanish & Dutch masterworks. Humanity, it is clear, has found it considerably harder to envisage felicity than its opposite, & so the infernal regions have been illustrated in a highly spirited fashion. The delineators of heaven, on the other hand, have found the place safe but dreary. The horrendous Hieronymus Bosch leads the field as a demonic painter; his surrealism still makes an indelible if no longer credible impression. The plates are plentiful, inclining in the heavenly to cool greens & blues, & in the infernal nightmares to somewhat hotter tones. Hughes, who is also a poet, has written the text, which stands in its own right as a guided tour of the history & topography of the spiritual cosmos.