| Description |
xv, 239 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-228) and index. |
| Contents |
The Ruler as God: The Triad of Mycerinus -- Form and Function: The Euphronios Crater -- The Birth of Western Art: Three Greek Statues -- Art in the Service of Power: The Augustus of Prima Porta -- A Home for the Gods: The Pantheon -- The Reuse of Symbols: The Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus -- Icons of Power: The San Vitale Mosaics -- Inventing Western Drama: Giotto: The Lamentation -- The Style of Heaven: Duccio: The Maestà -- The Transmigration of Meaning: Donatello: Judith and Holofernes -- Printed Images: Dürer: Knight, Death, and the Devil -- Leonardo and Tradition: The Last Supper -- Michelangelo's Pietàs -- A Late Work by an Ancient Master: Titian: The Flaying of Marsyas -- The Clash of Cultures: El Greco's Burial of the Lord of Orgaz -- The Making of Cellini's Perseus -- Reality Rearranged: Caravaggio: The Contarelli Chapel -- The Dwarfs of the King's Painter: Velázquez -- Art Without Boundaries: Bernini's Saint Teresa -- Depicting Divine Right: Van Dyck: Charles I on Horseback -- The Painter as Prince: A Self-Portrait by Rembrandt -- Chardin's Living Still-Lifes -- Images of Sacrifice: David's Death of Marat -- The Horrors of War: Goya's The Third of May -- Space and Color as Emotion: Van Gogh's Night Café -- The Devolution of Heroism: Rodin and the Burghers of Calais -- The Birth of Modern Architecture: The Wainwright and Carson Pirie Scott Buildings -- Picasso: Innovation Within Tradition: The Studio -- Transcendental Pictures: Three Photographs by Dorothea Lange -- The Twentieth-century Artist: Jackson Pollock's Lavender Mist -- The Elevation of the Ordinary: Hopper's Hotel Lobby -- Rethinking Sculpture: David Smith's Cubis. |
| Summary |
In The Informed Eye, Bruce Cole introduces the reader to the properties, concepts, and meanings of Western art through a series of concise, specific explorations of a single work of art or a group of related works. These paintings, sculptures, and buildings from widely varying cultures and times are all major representatives of the scope and diversity of Western culture, from the dawn of ancient civilization to our own time. Cole explains how art is made, how it functions in society, and how it embodies the ideas and ideals of the cultures in which it was produced. --From publisher description. |
| Subject |
Art appreciation.
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Art appreciation. (OCoLC)fst00815447
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Kunst (DE-588)4114333-4
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Geschichte (DE-588)4020517-4
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Westliche Welt (DE-588)4079237-7
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Kunst.
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| Genre/Form |
Nonfiction.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Cole, Bruce, 1938- Informed eye. Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, ©1999 (OCoLC)607415467 |
| ISBN |
1566632552 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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9781566632553 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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1566632781 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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9781566632782 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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