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""What is abstract art good for? What's the use--for us as individuals, or for any society--of pictures of nothing, of paintings and sculptures or prints or drawings that do not seem to show anything except themselves?" In this invigorating account of abstract art since Jackson Pollock, eminent art historian Kirk Varnedoe, the former chief curator of painting and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, asks these and other questions as he frankly confronts the uncertainties we may have about the nonrepresentational art produced in the last five decades. He makes a compelling argument for its history and value, much as E. H. Gombrich tackled representation fifty years ago in Art and Illusion, another landmark A. W. Mellon Lectures volume. Realizing that these lectures might be his final work, Varnedoe conceived of them as a statement of his faith in modern art and the culminating example of his lucidly pragmatic and philosophical approach to art history. He delivered the lectures, edited and reproduced here with their illustrations, to overflowing crowds at the National Gallery of Art in Washington in the spring of 2003, just months before his death. With brilliance, passion, and humor, Varnedoe addresses the skeptical attitudes and misunderstandings that we often bring to our experience of abstract art. Resisting grand generalizations, he makes a deliberate and scholarly case for abstraction--showing us that more than just pure looking is necessary to understand the self-made symbolic language of abstract art. Proceeding decade by decade, he brings alive the history and biography that inform the art while also challenging the received wisdom about distinctions between abstraction and representation, modernism and postmodernism, and minimalism and pop. The result is a fascinating and ultimately moving tour of a half century of abstract art, concluding with an unforgettable description of one of Varnedoe's favorite works." http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0654/2006006621-d.html.

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Melancholy is not only about sadness, despair, and loss. As Renaissance artists and philosophers acknowledged long ago, it can engender a certain kind of creativity born from a deep awareness of the mutability of life and the inevitable cycle of birth and death. Drawing on psychoanalysis, philosophy, and the intellectual history of the history of art, The Melancholy Art explores the unique connections between melancholy and the art historian's craft. Though the objects art historians study are materially present in our world, the worlds from which they come are forever lost to time. In this eloquent and inspiring book, Michael Ann Holly traces how this disjunction courses through the history of art and shows how it can give rise to melancholic sentiments in historians who write about art. She confronts pivotal and vexing questions in her discipline: Why do art historians write in the first place? What kinds of psychic exchanges occur between art objects and those who write about them? What institutional and personal needs does art history serve? What is lost in historical writing about art? The Melancholy Art looks at how melancholy suffuses the work of some of the twentieth century's most powerful and poetic writers on the history of art, including Alois Riegl, Franz Wickhoff, Adrian Stokes, Michael Baxandall, Meyer Schapiro, and Jacques Derrida. A disarmingly personal meditation by one of our most distinguished art historians, this book explains why to write about art is to share in a kind of intertwined pleasure and loss that is the very essence of melancholy. Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.

Art --- History as a science --- Affective and dynamic functions --- Melancholy. --- Mélancolie --- Historiography. --- Historiographie --- Melancholy --- Historiography --- Art - Historiography. --- Visual Arts --- Art, Architecture & Applied Arts --- Visual Arts - General --- Mélancolie --- Dejection --- Emotions --- Depression, Mental --- Sadness --- Art - Historiography --- Aby Warburg. --- Aestheticism. --- Aesthetics. --- Allegory. --- Alois Riegl. --- Anachronism. --- Analytic confidence. --- Ancient art. --- Aphorism. --- Art criticism. --- Art history. --- Arthur Schopenhauer. --- Artistic merit. --- Ben Nicholson. --- Bernard Berenson. --- Bernard Bosanquet (philosopher). --- Beyond the Pleasure Principle. --- Caspar David Friedrich. --- Christopher Bollas. --- Classicism. --- Connoisseur. --- Consciousness. --- Contemporary art. --- Criticism. --- Critique of Judgment. --- Death drive. --- Deconstruction. --- Ernst Gombrich. --- Erwin Panofsky. --- Explanation. --- Fra Angelico. --- Friedrich Nietzsche. --- Fritz Saxl. --- Garry Wills. --- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. --- George Steiner. --- Giovanni Morelli. --- Hannah Arendt. --- Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht. --- Hayden White. --- Iconography. --- Illusionism (art). --- Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. --- Jacques Derrida. --- Jacques Lacan. --- Jacques-Alain Miller. --- James Strachey. --- Jan van Eyck. --- Johann Joachim Winckelmann. --- Josef Strzygowski. --- Julia Kristeva. --- Linguistic turn. --- Literary theory. --- Marion Milner. --- Marsilio Ficino. --- Martin Heidegger. --- Maurice Blanchot. --- Melanie Klein. --- Metahistory. --- Metonymy. --- Meyer Schapiro. --- Michael Baxandall. --- Minima Moralia. --- Modernism. --- Modernity. --- Museum. --- Oceanic feeling. --- Oskar Kokoschka. --- Overpainting. --- Paul de Man. --- Petrarch. --- Philosopher. --- Philosophy. --- Positivism. --- Post-structuralism. --- Postmodernism. --- Psychoanalysis. --- Putto. --- Rainer Maria Rilke. --- Renaissance art. --- Rhetoric. --- Richard Wollheim. --- Romanticism. --- Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata (van Eyck). --- Sandro Botticelli. --- Simone Martini. --- Svetlana Alpers. --- The Art of Memory. --- The Gaze of Orpheus. --- The Origin of German Tragic Drama. --- The Philosopher. --- Theses on the Philosophy of History. --- Thought. --- Tintoretto. --- Unthought known. --- W. G. Sebald. --- Walter Benjamin. --- Walter Pater. --- Work of art. --- Writing.

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In a systematic overview of classical and modern contributions to aesthetics, Professor Sparshott argues that all four lines of theory, and no others, are necessary to coherent thinking about art.Originally published in 1982.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Arts --- Philosophy. --- Aesthetics. --- Beautiful, The --- Beauty --- Esthetics --- Taste (Aesthetics) --- Philosophy --- Art --- Criticism --- Literature --- Proportion --- Symmetry --- Psychology --- Radio broadcasting Aesthetics --- Aesthetics --- Academic art. --- Action painting. --- Ad hominem. --- Adage. --- Aesthetic Theory. --- Aestheticism. --- Allegory. --- Ambiguity. --- Anecdote. --- Animism. --- Antithesis. --- Aristotelianism. --- Art Express. --- Art as Experience. --- Art criticism. --- Art for art's sake. --- Art in General. --- Art of representation. --- Art. --- Artistic freedom. --- Avant-garde. --- Causality. --- Circumlocution. --- Classicism. --- Conflation. --- Consciousness. --- Consummation. --- Critical theory. --- Criticism. --- Culture industry. --- Deed. --- Dimensional analysis. --- Dynamism (metaphysics). --- Egocentric predicament. --- Emotivism. --- Empiricism. --- Explanation. --- Expressivism. --- Extrapolation. --- Figurative art. --- Fine art. --- Genre painting. --- Genre. --- Hedonism. --- Holism. --- Iconology. --- Idealization. --- Ideology. --- Illusionism (art). --- Imitation (art). --- Individuation. --- Inductivism. --- Inference. --- Invention. --- Irony. --- Jungian archetypes. --- Kitsch. --- Literary theory. --- Literature. --- Marcel Duchamp. --- Mental space. --- Metaphor. --- Narrative. --- Objet d'art. --- Opportunism. --- Originality. --- Philistinism. --- Philosopher. --- Positivism. --- Process art. --- Reality principle. --- Relativism. --- Romanticism. --- Scholasticism. --- Self-image. --- Sentimentality. --- Social practice (art). --- Social realism. --- Solipsism. --- Sophistication. --- Stipulative definition. --- Suggestion. --- Summa Theologica. --- The Artist's Way. --- The Conceptual Framework. --- The Philosopher. --- The Story of Art. --- The arts. --- Theory of Forms. --- Theory of art. --- Theory. --- Theurgy. --- Thought. --- Train of thought. --- Value judgment. --- Vested interest (communication theory). --- Work of art. --- Writing.

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Art historians have often minimized the variety and complexity of seventeenth-century Spanish painting by concentrating on individual artists and their works and by stressing discovery of new information rather than interpretation. As a consequence, the painter emerges in isolation from the forces that shaped his work. Jonathan Brown offers another approach to the subject by relating important Spanish Baroque paintings and painters to their cultural milieu.A critical survey of the historiography of seventeenth-century Spanish painting introduces this two-part collection of essays. Part One provides the most detailed study to date of the artistic-literary academy of Francisco Pacheco, and Part Two contains original studies of four major painters and their works: Las Meninas of Velázquez, Zurbarán's decoration of the sacristy at Guadalupe, and the work by Murillo and Valdés Leal for the Brotherhood of Charity, Seville. The essays are unified by the author's intention to show how the artists interacted with and responded to the prevailing social, theological, and historical currents of the time. While this contextual approach is not uncommon in the study of European art, it is newly applied here to restore some of the diversity and substance that Spanish Baroque painting originally possessed.

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