This posthumously published essay presents Hans De Wolf's sharp analysis of one of the greatest rivalries in art history: a rivalry between two centuries, embodied by two of their most prominent figures: Courbet for the 19th and Duchamp for the 20th Century. It is a story in which, in a certain sense, one becomes the perfect enemy of the other. This constellation helped Duchamp to forge his own path, creating an artistic response to Courbet's work with equal relevance and monumentality. The c...

Prachtige publicatie over de weergave van Parijs door Franse impressionisten zoals Monet, Cassatt, Renoir en Degas

In 1867 schildert Claude Monet vanaf het balkon van het Louvre drie iconische stadsgezichten van Parijs en geeft zo het startschot voor het impressionisme. Naast een gedetailleerde bespreking van deze drie bijzondere werken komen in dit boek ook talrijke andere impressionistische schilderijen en tekeningen aan bod.

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'Het hogere in het dagelijkse betrekken, dát is wat kunst kan doen. En dat is ook wat mij dreef in de meer dan vijftig jaren waarin ik lesgaf in kunstgeschiedenis en bouwkunst aan het Geert Groote College Amsterdam. Kunstbeschouwing nam in het lesaanbod van die school een ruime plaats in. Veel leerlingen deden het eindexamen kunstgeschiedenis havo of vwo. Als afsluiting van al deze lessen volgde dan de reis naar Rome, Florence, Parijs of Barcelona.' - Mark Mastenbroek

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Art, with its finite means, cannot hope to record the infinite variety and complexity of Nature, and so contents itself with a partial statement, addressing this to the imagination for the full and perfect meaning. This inadequation, and the artificial adjustments which it involves, are tolerated by right of what is known as artistic convention; and as each art has its own particular limitations, so each has its own particular conventions. Sculpture reproduces the forms of Nature, but discard...

THE LOVE between man and woman has been told in story and poem since long before the days of Sappho. It forms, indeed, the subject of the great bulk of what we call literature. In music, love's domain is less extended. With the exception song and the opera, most of the greatest music has, in its title at least, no hint of the great heart historyof human kind.

In this respect the plastic arts are more allied to music than to literature. The masterpieces in painting and sculpture generally not ...

An introduction to the artistic and architectural traditions of the Islamic world

'Animal Modernities' challenges the traditional human-centered focus of art history and explores how modern art, visual culture, and modernity itself emerge from relationships between humans and animals. The essays in this volume reveal histories of exploitation and domination, as well as confusion and ambivalence, and occasional moments when affinities between humans and animals have been embraced, and animal agency asserted and acknowledged. The authors collectively point to the importance ...

Magnificent publication on the depiction of Paris by the French impressionists such as Monet, Cassatt, Renoir and Degas

In 1867, Claude Monet painted three iconic views of Paris from the balcony of the Louvre, thus firing the starting shot of Impressionism. This book explores these groundbreaking works in detail, alongside a multitude of other Impressionist paintings and drawings.

Experts from leading museums around the world show how Paul Cézanne, Gustave Caillebotte, Mary Cassatt and many ...