Physical description; 16 p., 48 leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 31 cm. Notes; Bibliography : p. 15. Subjects; Lowry, Laurence Stephen 1887-1976 - Criticism and interpretation. Painters - Great Britain - Biography.

Lowry

SPALDING, Julian

Dutton

Herbert Press

A concise dissection of the myths that created Con Art - above all the myth that art has to shock to be new. The multi-million dollar reputations of Duchamp, Warhol, Beuys. Hirst and Koons and many others are exploded. Their art is worthless as art because it isn't art.

Con Art - Why you should sell your Damien Hirsts while you can

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Art Exposed

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Pallas Athene

Across the globe there are scores of beautiful and unusual works of art that are largely unseen or fail to receive the critical acclaim they deserve. The Best Art You've Never Seen is your essential companion to this hidden world of artistic treasures. Travelling from Peru to Papua New Guinea, The Best Art You've Never Seen restores to view 101 wonderful treasures — uncovering neglected artistic wonders from off-beat corners of the world to store rooms in the world's great museums. Written by art expert and former museum director Julian Spalding, The Best Art You've Never Seen takes you into a world of beautiful and arresting artifacts and reveals their amazing stories. It unveils a surprising and unfamiliar alternative canon of works to offer a fresh and controversial take on the world of art.

The Best Art You've Never Seen: 101 Hidden Treasures from Around the World (Rough Guide Reference)

Rough Guides

Since the time of the ancient Greeks, philosophers have pondered the nature and purpose of the arts, but artists have gone on making them and audiences enjoying them regardless of these musings. None of their theories have met with universal or even popular acceptance. But here is theory that places the arts—all the arts—firmly and squarely within everyone's everyday experiences.
Summers of Discontent goes to the heart of the arts. It's an examination of why artists create them in the first place and why we all feel the need for them. Raymond Tallis thinks the arts spring from our inability as humans fully to experience our experiences; from our hunger for a more rounded, more complete sense of the world.
Tallis's thesis is original and fresh, down-to-earth and life-enhancing. Above all it is practical and intelligible. It will inspire anyone who feels the creative urge today, or anyone who wants to understand why and how the arts enrich their lives and those of others.
Raymond Tallis is a leading academic doctor, poet, philosopher, and cultural critic. Author of more than twenty books, he was until his retirement professor of geriatric medicine at the University of Manchester.
Julian Spalding was director, successively of Sheffield and Manchester Art Galleries, and latterly of the Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow. He has written over a dozen books on art historical subjects and curated many exhibitions.

Summers of Discontent: The Purpose of the Arts Today

Tallis, Raymond

Wilmington Square Books

Our world view has changed from a flat earth under the dome of heaven to a planet spinning in the universe. We perceived the world as a body, like ours, then as a tree, a pyramid, an altar, and finally as a veil which became a window through which we peered only to discover ourselves on a sphere, a bubble which might burst at any moment. Our changing views are interpreted through iconic images of the remote and more recent past: the Venus of Willendorf, the Pyramids, Stonehenge, the Taj Mahal, the Scream, Sydney Opera House, and the Guggenheim, Bilbao.

Realisation-from Seeing to Understanding: The Origins of Art

In the rush to modernise, some museums have replaced almost all their collections with interactive exhibits and computers while others have put everything they can on display, turning their museums into pastiche cabinets of curiosity. Julian Spalding maintains that both approaches devalue visiting museums and galleries. The frontiers of knowledge are no longer collectible as they were during the Enlightenment, when museums became a central way of understanding natural and human history. Using examples as varied as the Louvre in Paris, the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D. C., the State Museum of Political History in St. Petersburg, and the Asian Civilisations Museum in Singapore, Spalding illustrates how to use objects and artefacts to create profound and poetic insights into the past. Writing for the visitor as well as the professional, Julian Spalding investigates every aspect of museum work from collecting to financing, from buildings to displays, revealing entrenched habits which must be reformed to reach a wider and increasingly sophisticated public. Most importantly, Spalding describes how his own ideal, the 'poetic museum,' would transform traditional museums and greatly extend their audiences. Accessible, radical and filled with important recommendations as well as entertaining insights, this groundbreaking polemic is certain to spark public as well as professional debate for years to come.

The Poetic Museum: Reviving Historic Collections

Prestel Pub

One of the art world's most outspoken critics explores the modern public's alienation from contemporary art and makes a powerful plea for the revival of communication, accessibility, and traditional skills in this field.

The Eclipse of Art: Tackling the Crisis in Art Today

Award-winning museum director and controversial art critic Julian Spalding helps us consider our relationship with the arts and makes us aware that seening is a wondeful gift. He shows us how mankind's early appreciation of the sun and moon, the rhythms and forces of nature, the cycle of birth and death is reflected in art, and draws striking parallels between seemingly different eras and peoples. Reaching across continents and cultures to study our earliest and latest creations, Spalding shows that what has changed dramatically throughout history is our way of seeing ourselves within the world.

The Art of Wonder: A History of Seeing

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Con Art - Why you should sell your Damien Hirsts while you can

Art Exposed

The Best Art You've Never Seen: 101 Hidden Treasures from Around the World (Rough Guide Reference)

Summers of Discontent: The Purpose of the Arts Today

Realisation-from Seeing to Understanding: The Origins of Art

The Poetic Museum: Reviving Historic Collections

The Eclipse of Art: Tackling the Crisis in Art Today

The Art of Wonder: A History of Seeing