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Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (x, 244 pages)
Language
English
Description
This book is concerned with why (or whether) paintings have value: why they might be worth creating and attending to. The author traces an understanding of painting as ontologically revelatory from the theology of the Byzantine Icon to classical Chinese appreciations of landscape painting, and Phenomenologists inspired by European Modernist art.
Author
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
175 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
The art of the past can seem very far away, obscured both by time and by knotty academic theory. Foregrounding the experience of the contemporary viewer, Look Again shows how this need not be the case. Ossian Ward's simple, ten-step programme acts as an aid to looking, breaking down the often obscure strategies of the Old Masters into intuitive categories - from Art as Honesty to Art as Vision. 0Look Again's novel approach is influenced by John Berger's...
8) Spot a cat
Author
Pub. Date
1995
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
9) Spot a dog
Author
Pub. Date
1995
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
10) Encounter
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
x, 178 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Milan Kundera's new collection of essays is a passionate defense of art in an era that, he argues, no longer values art or beauty. Art is what we possess in the face of evil and the darker side of human nature. With the same mix of emotion and idea that characterizes his novels, Kundera revisits the artists who remain important to him and whose works help us better understand the world we live in and what it means to be human. An astute reader of...
Author
Publisher
Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Join Jane Williams on a journey from Advent to Epiphany, and discover the timeless wisdom to be found in some of the world's greatest paintings.Illustrated in full colour with nearly forty famous and lesser-known masterpieces of Western art, this beautiful book will lead you into a deeply prayerful response to all that these paintings convey to the discerning eye.
Author
Publisher
Sterling Children's Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Sterling edition.
Lexile measure
1090L
Physical Desc
87 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
"Take a wonderful journey through time to discover the story of paintings, from Stone Age cave art to the graffiti-inspired work of Jean-Michel Basquiat."--Back cover.
19) Meowsterpieces
Author
Publisher
Magic Cat Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 32 cm
Language
English
Description
Explores the world of cats through the art of famous artists, including Edward Hopper, Edgar Degas, and Vincent Van Gogh.
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