Thomas Hearne and His Landscape

Arts & Photography

Morris, David

History & Criticism

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The story of Narcissus, as told by Ovid in The Metamorphoses,is of a beautiful youth who is so infatuated by his own reflection in a stream that he pines away for himself and is transformed into a flower of the same name. Since the classical era, the myth has been open to rich and varied interpretation by numerous artists. Narcissus Reflected explores the myth of Narcissus and its influence in Surrealist and contemporary art, including painting, photography, installation, film, and video. 
At the center of the book is Salvador Dalí’s work from 1937 entitled The Metamorphosis of Narcissus. Narcissus Reflected reproduces the manuscript of Dalí’s poem of the same name alongside the preparatory drawings he made that show the evolution of the final painting. As David Lomas shows through many exemplary and colorful illustrations, in Surrealism, the appearance of the Narcissus myth reflects a general artistic preoccupation with the idea of myth as a well as an interest in Freudian psychoanalysis, in which the concept of narcissism plays a influential role.
Featuring works by André Masson, Jean Cocteau, Claude Cahun, Frida Kahlo, Yayoi Kusama, Pipilotti Rist, and many other twentieth- and twenty-first-century artists, Narcissus Reflected considers the many meanings and interpretations of the myth and explains the enduring appeal of the Narcissus theme in art.

Narcissus Reflected: The Myth of Narcissus in Surrealist and Contemporary Art

Lomas, David

Ian Hamilton Finlay: A visual primer

Abrioux, Yves

Paul Nash (1889-1946) has long been admired as one of the outstanding English landscape painters of the twentieth century. He has a deep affinity for sites in southern England, including the rolling downland near Swanage, the gaunt coastline at Dymchurch, the enigmatic stone circles at Avebury, and the twin hills in Oxfordshire known as the Wittenham Clumps, which became the focal symbol of his art. In this book, Roger Cardinal surveys the full range of Nash’s work, from the ravaged Flanders landscapes of World War I to the spectacular aerial battles of World War II and on to the meditative late oils, his final masterpieces. Movingly written and beautifully illustrated, it offers a definitive account of the painter and a lovely addition to the bookshelves of any art lover.

The Landscape Vision of Paul Nash (Essays in Art & Culture)

Cardinal, Roger

With essays by Charles Saumarez Smith, Ludmilla Jordanova, Paul Greenhalgh, Colin Sorensen, Nick Merriman, Stephen Bann, Philip Wright, Norman Palmer and Peter Vergo. "A lively and controversial symposium ... thought-provoking"—The Sunday Times (Paperbacks of the Year, 1989) "The essays are all distinguished by their topicality and lucidity."—MuseumNews "A welcome addition to the library of Museology"—Art Monthly "The New Museology is essential reading for all those seeking to understand the current debate in museum ideologies."—International Journal of Museum Management and Scholarship

The New Museology

Humor & Entertainment

With essays by Charles Saumarez Smith, Ludmilla Jordanova, Paul Greenhalgh, Colin Sorensen, Nick Merriman, Stephen Bann, Philip Wright, Norman Palmer and Peter Vergo. "A lively and controversial symposium ... thought-provoking"--"The Sunday Times" (Paperbacks of the Year, 1989)"The essays are all distinguished by their topicality and lucidity."--"Museum" "News""A welcome addition to the library of Museology"--"Art Monthly""The New Museology is essential reading for all those seeking to understand the current debate in museum ideologies."--"International Journal of Museum Management and Scholarship"

The New museology (Critical Views)

Physical description; viii, 152 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 30 cm. Subjects; Hearne, Thomas 1678-1735. Antiquarians - Great Britain - History - 18th century. Landscape painting, English - 19th century.

Thomas Hearne and his landscape

In this, the only up-to-date critical work on still life painting in any language, Norman Bryson analyzes the origins, history and logic of still life, one of the most enduring forms of Western painting. The first essay is devoted to Roman wall-painting while in the second the author surveys a major segment in the history of still life, from seventeenth-century Spanish painting to Cubism. The third essay tackles the controversial field of seventeenth-century Dutch still life. Bryson concludes in the final essay that the persisting tendency to downgrade the genre of still life is profoundly rooted in the historical oppression of women. In Looking at the Overlooked, Norman Bryson is at his most brilliant. These superbly written essays will stimulate us to look at the entire tradition of still life with new and critical eyes.

Looking at the Overlooked: Four Essays on Still Life Painting (Essays in Art and Culture (Reaktion Books))

Bryson, Norman

Looking at the Overlooked: Four Essays on Still Life Painting (Essays in Art & Culture)

Norman Bryson

Renaissance Bodies is a unique collection of views on the ways in which the human image has been represented in the arts and literature of English Renaissance society. The subjects discussed range from high art to popular culture – from portraits of Elizabeth I to polemical prints mocking religious fanaticism – and include miniatures, manners, anatomy, drama and architectural patronage. The authors, art historians and literary critics, reflect diverse critical viewpoints, and the 78 illustrations present a fascinating exhibition of the often strange and haunting images of the period. With essays by John Peacock, Elizabeth Honig, Andrew and Catherine Belsey, Jonathan Sawday, Susan Wiseman, Ellen Chirelstein, Tamsyn Williams, Anna Bryson, Maurice Howard and Nigel Llewellyn. "The whole book ... presents a mirror of contemporary concerns with power, the merits and demerits of individualism, sex-roles, 'selves', the meaning of community and (even) conspicuous consumption."—The Observer

Renaissance Bodies: The Human Figure in English Culture c. 1540-1660 (Picturing History)

LLEWELLYN, Nigel

Gent, Lucy

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