| Description |
220 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
An artist goes into a museum -- Summoning Francis : a memoir of sorts about being inspired -- A grand tour : how a trip to Europe can change everything -- An epiphany in Munich : rethinking old assumptions -- Gleaning to patrimony : a side trip to an alternate tradition -- past as present : art, as fresh as the day it was done -- Big Tom and Little Tom : Masaccio and Masolino, realism and fantasy -- Reading paintings : clarifying pictorial space -- Format and fate : how you frame the issue -- Human scale : big fish in a little pond and vice versa -- Busted, or very like a whale : the poetics of damage -- Only connect : on seeing sculpture and the urge to touch it -- Making as metaphor : the sculpture of Hildebrand and Rodin, Charkow, and Neri -- Sex and subtext : I hate to say what it looks like, but... -- Multiplicity : can one image always tell the whole story? -- You had to be there : The necessity (and joy) of travel. |
| Summary |
"A visit to a museum can be overwhelming, exhausting, and unrewarding. Lincoln Perry wants to change that. In sixteen essays--each framed around a specific theme--he provides new ways of seeing and appreciating art. As Perry says, 'I'll try to evoke what I've come to love not because I believe it's what you should love, but, rather, because I hope my enthusiasm might inspire you to find what you love.' Perry is a disarmingly charming tour guide to museums large or small and artists from Bruegel to Pollock. Along the way, he weaves in personal stories from his own artistic journey including the nights he slept in his beaten-up VW Bus in the Louvre's parking lot. Drawing heavily on examples from the European tradition of art, the author aims to overturn assumptions and cause the reader to re-think artistic prejudices while rebuilding new preferences."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Art appreciation.
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Art appreciation. (OCoLC)fst00815447
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| Genre/Form |
Essays.
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| ISBN |
9781567926996 (hardback) |
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1567926991 (hardback) |
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