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"Artists are expert lookers: they have learned to pay attention. The rest of us spend most of our time on auto-pilot, rushing from place to place, our overfamiliarity blinding us to the marvellous, life-affirming phenomena of our world. But that doesn't have to be the case. In his inimitable engaging style, Will Gompertz takes us into the minds of artists--from contemporary stars to old masters, the well-known to the lesser-so, and from around the...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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"In the 2008 Wimbledon men's final, Centre Court was a stage set worthy of Shakespearean drama. Five-time champion Roger Federer was on track to take his rightful place as the most dominant player in the history of the game. Yet in the last few moments of daylight, swashbuckling Spaniard Rafael Nadal prevailed in what was, according to the author, 'essentially a four-hour, forty-eight-minute infomercial for everything that is right about tennis.'...
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Bollingen volume 24A
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
1978
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661 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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English
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Publisher
Phaidon
Pub. Date
1999
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304 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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English
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"In this new volume of essays Professor Gombrich takes up and develops themes that have long preoccupied him in his study of visual imagery of all kinds. Central to these essays is a consuming interest in the functions of images, and how these functions - and the images - change over time."--Book jacket.
10) A month in Siena
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
130 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"After finishing his powerful memoir The Return, Hisham Matar, seeking solace and pleasure, traveled to Siena, Italy. Always finding comfort and clarity in great art, Matar immersed himself in eight significant works from the Sienese School of painting, which flourished from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries. Artists whom he had admired throughout his life, such as Duccio and Ambrogio Lorenzetti, evoke earlier engagements he has had with works...
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Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2005
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245 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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English
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An exploration of art as a great passion of life considers what can be learned through pictures, sculpture, and the artists who create them, in a personal exploration that advocates awareness of art and the creative spirit within one's own life.
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Viking
Pub. Date
[2024]
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370 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"The New York Times bestselling author of Cork Dork takes readers on another fascinating, hilarious, and revelatory journey-this time burrowing deep inside the impassioned, secretive world of art and artists An award-winning journalist obsessed with obsession, Bianca Bosker's existence was upended when she wandered into the art world-and couldn't look away. Intrigued by artists who hyperventilate around their favorite colors and art fiends who max...
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Prestel
Pub. Date
[2013]
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191 pages : colour illustrations ; 27 cm
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English
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From the publisher. Traveling back and forth across generations and movements, this engrossing book looks at the myriad ways artists fool their audiences. The art of optical illusion has been an integral part of painting since antiquity, when it was used as a yardstick by which to judge an artist's level of mastery. In the centuries that followed, and continuing through contemporary times, artists from Van Eyck to Gerhard Richter have delighted in...
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