In art, as in every field, the 19th century was a period of experimentation: in which artists divined and portrayed the crucial connections between seeing and knowing, vision and society, explored the links between perception and history. Today, this legacy has been obscured by revisionism's that have changed art history. This book embraces the ...
The photographs of torture at Abu Ghraib prison aroused world-wide condemnation - or did they? Opinion polls showed that most citizens of the us were unmoved by the images. And in the two countries that promoted the war in Iraq and instigated torture against detainees, George Bush and Tony Blair were returned to office only months after the ...
This work is about contemporary Tahitians and a long-dead French painter, sex today and sex in the late-19th century, and colonialism old and new. Paul Gauguin travelled to Tahiti in 1891 in search of an exotic paradise. What he found instead was a French colony ostentatiously divided by race, sex and class. The artist began to explore the ...
An exploration of contemporary Tahitians and a long-dead French painter, sex today and sex in the late 19th century, and colonialism new and old. Written on the boundary between art history and anthropology, it reads like a biography and a mystery. Paul Gauguin travelled to Tahiti in 1891 in search of an exotic paradise. He found instead a French ...
This is the first critical catalogue of the collection of nineteenth-century paintings and drawings in the Norton Simon Museum of Art. World-renowned for its strength in works by the French impressionists and post-impressionists - Monet, Renoir, Gauguin, Cezanne and Van Gogh - the Museum also houses outstanding paintings by the Realist Gustave ...
This catalog offers a retrospective of Gauguin's entire artistic career, beginning with his early impressionist works through to his final masterpieces painted on the Marquesas Islands, where Gauguin was inspired to create artworks that are among the most vivid in the history of painting. "Gauguin had clearly decided to violate social norms, ...
Bristling with demons, grotesques, and bizarre apparitions, the graphic work of Odilon Redon has often seemed to be the product of a mind unhinged. In The Temptation of Saint Redon, Stephen F. Eisenman argues instead that these works are Redon's conscious and considered response to changing social realities--an attempt to find refuge from the ...
Charles Darwin's monumental "The Origin of Species", published in 1859, forever changed the landscape of natural science. The scientific world of the time had already established the principle of the "intelligent design" of a Creator; the art world had spent centuries devoting itself to the celebration of such a Designer's creation. But the ...
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