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Emotion and the arts
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ISBN: 0195111052 Year: 1997 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Oxford university press

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Cézanne et la fin de l'impressionnisme : étude sur la théorie, la technique et l'évaluation critique de l'art moderne
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ISBN: 2080124455 9782080124456 Year: 1995 Publisher: Paris Flammarion

Colour and culture : practice and meaning from antiquity to abstraction
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ISBN: 9780500278185 0500278180 Year: 2012 Publisher: London Thames and Hudson

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This work considers every conceivable aspect of the subject in an analysis of colour in Western culture. It describes the first theories of colour, articulated by philosophers from Democritus to Aristotle, as well as looking at its relgious significance, and the role of colour today.

The destruction of art : iconoclasm and vandalism since the French Revolution.
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ISBN: 0948462949 9780948462948 Year: 1997 Publisher: London Reaktion books


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The purchase of the past : collecting culture in post-Revolutionary Paris, c1790-1890
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ISBN: 9781108781268 9781108478847 9781108748636 1108802885 1108781268 1108807224 1108478840 Year: 2020 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Offering a broad and vivid survey of the culture of collecting from the French Revolution to the Belle Époque, The Purchase of the Past explores how material things became a central means of accessing and imagining the past in nineteenth-century France. By subverting the monarchical establishment, the French Revolution not only heralded the dawn of the museum age, it also threw an unprecedented quantity of artworks into commercial circulation, allowing private individuals to pose as custodians and saviours of the endangered cultural inheritance. Through their common itineraries, erudition and sociability, an early generation of scavengers established their own form of 'private patrimony', independent from state control. Over a century of Parisian history, Tom Stammers explores collectors' investments - not just financial but also emotional and imaginative - in historical artefacts, as well as their uncomfortable relationship with public institutions. In so doing, he argues that private collections were a critical site for salvaging and interpreting the past in a post-revolutionary society, accelerating but also complicating the development of a shared national heritage.

Representing emotions : new connections in the histories of art , music and medicine
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ISBN: 0754630587 Year: 2005 Publisher: Aldershot ; Brookfield, VT : Ashgate,


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Ornament and European modernism : from art practice to art history
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ISBN: 9781138743403 1138743402 9781315162560 9781351668576 Year: 2018 Publisher: New York, NY Abingdon, Oxon Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group

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Through in-depth essays on selected issues related to the meaning of ornament and its theoretical importance for the formation of modernism especially in England, Austria, and Germany, the collection re-examines two issues in particular: on the one hand the critical discourse that appeared at the end of the nineteenth century focused on the relationship between art practice, art theory and the rising of modernism, and, on the other, the operative value ornament came to acquire in the construction, settling, and revision of the discipline of art history. The essay volume deals also with the falling into pieces of the long-sought and never-secured unity of art and ornament that marks out the entrance of modernity. Contributors to the volume treat these ill-defined aspects of the separation-process which juts forth into postmodernism. The essays, ranging from Owen Jones to Ernst Gombrich through Gottfried Semper, Alois Riegl, August Schmarsow, Wilhelm Worringer, Adolf Loos, Henry van de Velde, and Hermann Muthesius, show how artistic theories are deeply related to the art practice of their own times, and how ornament lends itself to probe historical transformations.


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A Glimpse of the Concealed : body - intuition - art
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ISBN: 9789085867395 9085867398 Year: 2017 Publisher: Kontich : BAI : Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp,

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Some artworks do something to you. They leave you feeling bereft, give you new insights, offer a new way of seeing things, make you happy, hopeful or despairing. This was true in the past, and it remains true today. It is this universal experience that art brings about that is the subject of the exhibition 'Encounters/Ontmoetingen'. KMSKA-curator Paul Vandenbroeck has selected a hundred works from all over the world, from early antiquity to the present day, by well-known and lesser-known artists, from paintings and sculptures to video, installations and textiles. 'Encounters/Ontmoetingen' is not a conventional exhibition. You need no prior knowledge before you walk in. On the contrary, the most important thing is to enter the MAS without preconceptions, and let the art speak for itself. The works are not exhibited according to traditional categories, but grouped into intuitive clusters: sometimes on the basis of aesthetic conventions, sometimes on the basis of a tension between works of diverse origins. The exhibition starts from the notion that art, separately from any idea, thought or belief, has the capacity to touch you, even if you have no idea who the artist is and where the work comes from. To keep the experience pure, there is no text or explanation accompanying the exhibits. All you get as a spectator is the names of the works and the artists. Exhibition: MAS Museum aan de Stroom, Antwerp, Belgium (19.05.-20.08.2017).

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