Nooit eerder werd leven en werk van de bekende kunstenaar Barend Blankert zo volledig en zo indringend beschreven. Barend Blankert behoort tot de grote kunstenaars van deze tijd en deze briljante biografie doet hem recht. Zijn figuratieve werk spreekt aan en roept vragen op. De auteur slaagt erin beide kanten op een objectieve manier te belichten. Een onmisbaar boek voor iedereen die zich wil verdiepen in moderne figuratieve kunst. De indringende beschrijving van zijn jeugd, met veel inlevin...

Art in Theory (1648-1815) provides a wide-ranging and comprehensive collection of documents on the theory of art from the founding of the French Academy until the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Like its highly successful companion volumes, Art in Theory (1815-1900) and Art in Theory (1900-1990), its' primary aim is to provide students and teachers with the documentary material for informed and up-to-date study. Its' 240 texts, clear principles of organization and considerable editorial content o...

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...