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Tiepolo and the Pictorial Intelligence

Door Svetlana Alpers e.a.

Categorie	Schilderkunst
Boeknummer	#400256-LA11
Titel	Tiepolo and the Pictorial Intelligence
Auteur	Alpers, Svetlana & Michael Baxandall
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	New Haven : Yale University Press
Jaar van uitgave	1994
ISBN10	0300059787
ISBN13	9780300059786
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original grey cloth, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, numerous illustrations in colour and b/w
Samenvatting	Tiepolo is a brilliant example of the specifically pictorial intelligence. This book is both a study of his art and an argument for fuller recognition of the peculiarities of the painter's representational medium. Alpers and Baxandall locate distinctive modes of Tiepolo's representation of the world and human action; follow his process of invention from first pen drawings, through small oil sketches, to great frescoes; and analyse his best and biggest painting, the Four Continents in the Stairway Hall of the Prince-Bishop's Residence at Wurzburg, illustrated with photographs specially taken for the book. The topics taken up include: painting's resistance to enacted narrative drama, its engagement with indeterminacies and repetitions, the senses in which a painter may 'perform' both past ar... (Lees verder)t and himself, the constructive roles of gestural drawing, exploitation of shifts of scale between design and finished work, dialogue between the changing natural site lighting and in-picture lighting, contributions made by the beholder's own mobility, the expressive scope of tensions between two and three dimensions, the deep rationale of rococo formal structure, and the sources of the moral force of pictures without an explicit moral. The book - both art criticism and a practical polemic - ends with an annotated gazetteer for travellers, listing those Tiepolo paintings that can still be seen in the places and conditions for which he painted them.
Pagina's	186
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 25,00

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