Thinking About Art E-Book

Penny Huntsman

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 599

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

Beschreibung

Consumerism
Pop art
Mechanisation
Baroque
Kitsch
Postmodern
Vanitas
Antiquity
Oeuvre
Chiaroscuro
Patron
Picture plane
Cubism
Ionic
Humanism
Critic
Abstracted
Screen print
Art market

Thinking About Art explores some of the most influential works of art and architecture in the world through the prism of themes, instead of chronology, to offer intriguing juxtapositions of art and history.

The book ranges across time and topics, from the Parthenon to the present day and from patronage to ethnicity, to reveal art history in new and varied lights.

With over 200 colour illustrations and a wealth of formal and contextual analysis, Thinking About Art is a companion guide for art lovers, students and the general reader. It is also the first A-level Art History textbook, written by a skilled and experienced teacher of art history, Penny Huntsman.

The book is accompanied by a companion website: www.wiley.com/go/thinkingaboutart.

Leseprobe

Umberto Boccloni Unique Forms of Continuity in Space1913, bronze, 1175×876×368 mm, cast 1972, London, Tate, Source:©Tate, London 2015.

Thinking About Art

A Thematic Guide to Art History Penny Huntsman

This edition first published 2016 © 2016 Association of Art Historians

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Huntsman, Penny. Thinking about art : a thematic guide to art history / Penny Huntsman. pages cm Includes index. ISBN 978-1-118-90517-3 (cloth) — ISBN 978-1-118-90497-8 (pbk.) 1. Art—History. 2. Art—Themes, motives. I.Association of Art Historians (Great Britain) II.Title. N5303.H86 2015 700.9—dc23             2015021567

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Cover image: Jackson Pollock, 1949. Photo © Martha Holmes / LIFE Picture Collection / Getty Images Cover design by Atelier Works LLP

Contents

Companion Website

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Formal Analysis Toolbox

Chapter 1 Genres and Subjects

Introduction

History Genre

Portraiture

Genre

Landscape

Still Life

Subjects

Chapter Summary Exercise

Checkpoint Answers

References

Other Useful Sources

Chapter 2 Materials, Techniques and Processes

Introduction

Painting: Timeless and Honoured

Other Media

Sculpture

Architecture

Chapter Summary Exercise

Checkpoint Answers

References

Other Useful Sources

Chapter 3 Form, Style and Function

Introduction

The Beginning of Western Art

Discovery of Antiquity and Development of Sacred Art

A Move Towards Individualism

New and Divergent Ways of Seeing in the Twentieth Century

European Modernism: In Search of an Elemental Truth

Chapter Summary Exercise

Checkpoint Answers

References

Other Useful Sources

Chapter 4 Social and Historical Contexts

Introduction

Seventeenth Century:Baroque Rome and the Catholic Counter-Reformation

Nineteenth-Century France: Transformation and Modernity

Mid-Nineteenth-Century England and Victorian Morality

Mid-Twentieth-Century United States and the Depression Era

Twentieth-Century United States: The Boom Years

Class Fragmentation and the Urban Documentary

Chapter Summary Exercise

Checkpoint Answers

References

Other Useful Sources

Chapter 5 Patronage and the Social and Cultural Status of the Artist

Introduction

Private Patronage in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries

Public Patronage in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries

Papal and Church Patronage in the Seventeenth Century

Patronage in the Eighteenth Century

The Modern Artist and the Market in the Nineteenth Century

Twentieth Century

The Contemporary Artworld

Architectural Landmarks in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

Chapter Summary Exercise

Checkpoint Answers

References

Other Useful Sources

Chapter 6 Gender, Nationality and Ethnicity

Introduction

Gender: The Representation and Subversion of Gender Stereotypes

Nationality

Ethnicity

Chapter Summary Exercise

Checkpoint Answers

References

Other Useful Sources

Glossary

Index

EULA

List of Illustrations

Chapter 1

Figure 1.1

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Jacques-Louis David,

Oath of the Horatii

, 1784, oil on canvas, 330 × 425 cm, Paris, Musée du Louvre.

Figure 1.2

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Titian,

Bacchus and Ariadne

, 1520–1523, oil on canvas, 176.5 × 191 cm, London, National Gallery.

Figure 1.3

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Masaccio,

The Tribute Money

, c.1425–1428, fresco, 247 × 597 cm, Florence, Santa Maria del Carmine, Cappella Brancacci. Source: akg-images / Rabatti – Domingie.

Figure 1.4

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Francisco de Goya,

The Third of May 1808

,

1814, oil on canvas, 268 × 347 cm, Madrid, Museo del Prado.

Source: akg-images / Album / Oronoz.

Figure 1.5

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Pablo Picasso,

Guernica

, 1937, oil on canvas, 349.3 × 776.6 cm, Madrid, Museo Nacional Reina Sofia. Source: Photo: akg-images / Erich Lessing / Artwork: © Succession Picasso / DACS, London 2015.

Figure 1.6

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Bombing of Guernica, air attack, 1937, Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939. Bombing of the North Spanish town Guernica by the German Luftwaffe ‘Legion Condor’ on 24 April 1937. Guernica was completely destroyed after the attack. Ruins of destroyed houses after the attack. Photo, retouched, 6/5/1937.

Figure 1.7

| Jacques-Louis David,

The Death of Marat

, 1793 (stabbed in his bath by Charlotte Corday, Paris, 13 July 1793), oil on canvas, 165 × 128 cm,

Figure 1.8

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Jacques-Louis David,

The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries

, 1812, oil on canvas, overall: 204 × 125 cm, Washington, National Gallery of Art, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1961.9.15. Source: Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington.

Figure 1.9

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George Gower,

Elizabeth I /The Armada Portrait

, 1588, oil on panel, 105.5 × 133.5 cm, Bedfordshire, Woburn Abbey. Source: akg-images.

Figure 1.10

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Pablo Picasso,

Portrait of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler

,

1910, oil on canvas, 100.4 × 72.4 cm, the Art Institute of Chicago. Source:The Art Institute of Chicago, IL, USA

/ Bridgeman Images / © Succession Picasso /

DACS, London 2015.

Figure 1.11

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Jan van Eyck,

The Arnolfini Portrait

, 1434, portrait of Giovanni (?) Arnolfini and his wife Giovanna Cenami (?), oil on oak panel,

82.2 ×

60 cm, London, National Gallery. Source: National Gallery, London, UK / Bridgeman Images.

Figure 1.12

| Jan van Eyck,

The Arnolfini Portrait

, 1434, detail of chandelier and Van Eyck’s signature on back wall, oil on oak panel, 82.2 × 60 cm, London, National Gallery. Source: National Gallery, London, UK /

Bridgeman Images.

Figure 1.13

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David Hockney,

Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy

, 1970, acrylic on canvas, 213.4 × 304.8 cm, London, Collection Tate. Source: ©Tate, London 2015 / © David Hockney.

Figure 1.14

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David Hockney, a detail from

Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy

, 1970, acrylic on canvas, 213.4 × 304.8 cm, London, Collection Tate. Source: © Tate, London 2015 / © David Hockney.

Figure 1.15

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David Hockney,

Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy

, 1970, detail of Percy, acrylic on canvas, 213.4 × 304.8 cm, London, Collection Tate. Source: ©Tate, London 2015 / © David Hockney.

Figure 1.16

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Edgar Degas,

The Bellelli Family

, c.1860, 2 × 2.5 m, Paris, Musée d’Orsay. Source: The Art Archive / Musée d’Orsay Paris / Gianni Dagli Orti.

Figure 1.17

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Frida Kahlo,

The Broken Column

, 1944, oil on canvas, mounted on hardboard, 40 × 30.7 cm, Mexico City, Museo Dolores Olmedo Patiño, Xochimilco. Source: akg-images / © 2015. Banco de México Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F. / DACS.

Figure 1.18

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Antonio del Pollaiuolo and Piero del Pollaiuolo,

The Martyrdom of St. Sebastian

, 1475, oil on poplar, 291.5 × 202.6 cm, London, National Gallery. Source: National Gallery, London, UK / Bridgeman Images.

Figure 1.19

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Caravaggio,

David with the Head of Goliath (with Self Portrait of the Artist as the Dead Goliath)

, 1609–1610, oil on canvas, 125 × 100 cm, Rome, Galleria Borghese. Source: akg-images / Nimatallah.

Figure 1.20

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Jan (Johannes) Vermeer,

The Milkmaid

, c.1660, oil on canvas, 45.5 × 41 cm, Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum. Source: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands / Bridgeman Images.

Figure 1.21

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William Maw Egley,

Omnibus Life in London

, 1859, oil on canvas, 44.8 × 41.9 cm, London, Tate Britain. Source: © Tate, London 2015.

Figure 1.22

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Edgar Degas,

In a Cafe

or

L’Absinthe

, c.1875–1876, oil on canvas, 92 × 68 cm, Paris, Musée d’Orsay. Source: Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France / Bridgeman Images.