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Blake and Antiquity by Kathleen Raine
Category: Poetry | Series: The\A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts Ser.
The classic book on William Blake as prophet of the New Age William Blake (1757-1827) inhabited a remarkable inner world, one that he brought vividly to life in his poetry, painting, and printmaking. Blake and Antiquity situates this brilliant and enigmatic artist within the Western esoteric canon, rev ...Show more
CHINESE PAINTING & ITS AUDIENCES by CLUNAS CRAIG
Category: Art and Design | Series: The\A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts Ser.
A history of the reception of Chinese painting from the sixteenth century to the present What is Chinese painting? When did it begin? And what are the different associations of this term in China and the West? In Chinese Painting and Its Audiences, which is based on the A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine ...Show more
Chinese Art and Dynastic Time by Wu Hung
Category: Art | Series: The\A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts Ser.
A sweeping look at Chinese art across the millennia that upends traditional perspectives and offers new pathways for art history Throughout Chinese history, dynastic time--the organization of history through the lens of successive dynasties--has been the dominant mode of narrating the story of Chine ...Show more
Contact: Art and the Pull of Print by Jennifer L. Roberts
Category: Art Books | Series: The\A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts Ser.
A leading art historian presents a new grammar for understanding the meaning and significance of print In process and technique, printmaking is an art of physical contact. From woodcut and engraving to lithography and screenprinting, every print is the record of a contact event: the transfer of an image ...Show more
Painting As an Art by Richard Wollheim
Category: Art and Design | Series: The\A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts Ser.
One of the twentieth century's most influential texts on philosophical aestheticsPainting as an Art is acclaimed philosopher Richard Wollheim's encompassing vision of how to view art. Transcending the traditional boundaries of art history, Wollheim draws on his three great passions--philosophy, psycholo ...Show more
Painting and Reality by Etienne Gilson
Category: Art and Design | Series: The\A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts Ser.
A classic study of the art of painting and its relationship to reality In this book, Étienne Gilson puts forward a bold interpretation of the kind of reality depicted in paintings and its relation to the natural order. Drawing on insights from the writings of great painters--from Leonardo, Reynolds, an ...Show more
Restoration - The Fall of Napoleon in the Course of European Art, 1812-1820 by Thomas Crow
Category: Art and Design | Series: The\A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts Ser.
How social upheavals after the collapse of the French Empire shaped the lives and work of artists in early nineteenth-century Europe As the French Empire collapsed between 1812 and 1815, artists throughout Europe were left uncertain and adrift. The final abdication of Emperor Napoleon, clearing the ...Show more
Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern by Mary Beard
Category: History | Series: The\A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts Ser.
What does the face of power look like? Who gets commemorated in art and why? And how do we react to statues of politicians we deplore? In this book — against a background of today’s 'sculpture wars' — Mary Beard tells the story of how for more than two millennia portraits of the rich, powerful, and fam ...Show more
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