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Grey Matters
  • Language: en

Grey Matters

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-10-09
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  • Publisher: Unknown

This text accompanies an exhibition of monochromatic works of art built around a nucleus of paintings in grisaille by the Florentine mannerist artist Jacopo da Pontormo (1494-1557). At its heart is Pontormo's rediscovered canvas representing Adam and Eve with Cain and Abel (private collection). The exhibition was held at the Nicholas Hall Gallery in New York from January 25 to March 27, 2021.

Piero Di Cosimo
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 388

Piero Di Cosimo

  • Categories: Art

Inverting rules with obvious relish, Florentine artist Piero di Cosimo (1462–1522) is known today—as he was in his own time—for his highly personal visual language, one capable of generating images of the most mesmerizing oddity. In this book, Dennis Geronimus overcomes the scarcity of information about the artist’s life and works—only one of the nearly sixty known works by Piero is actually signed and dated—and pieces together from extensive archival research the most complete and accurate account of Piero’s life and career ever written. Unfettered imagination was the sign under which Piero exercised his pictorial invention, and yet the complicated artist was also a product of his culture. The book fills gaps in the artist’s biography and provides intensive analysis of Piero’s protean imagery, discusses his various patrons and commissions, and lists his extant, lost, and uncertainly attributed works.

Piero Di Cosimo
  • Language: en

Piero Di Cosimo

"The exhibition is organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and the Galleria degli Uffizi, Superintendency of Cultural Heritage for the City and the Museums of Florence"--Title page verso.

Piero di Cosimo
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 345

Piero di Cosimo

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-03-25
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Piero di Cosimo: Painter of Faith and Fable makes available the proceedings of a conference of the same name, hosted by the Dutch University Institute for Art History (NIKI), Florence, in September 2015, at the conclusion of the second of two exhibitions dedicated to Piero at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and the Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence. It is the twelfth publication in the NIKI series and the first such anthology to be published by Brill.

Piero di Cosimo
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 269

Piero di Cosimo

  • Categories: Art

An original survey of the Renaissance painter’s life and work. This book is a concise survey of the life of the Florentine painter Piero di Cosimo (1462–1522) within his social and cultural surroundings. Delving into the artist’s deliberately idiosyncratic life, the book shows how di Cosimo chose to live in squalor—eating nothing but boiled eggs cooked fifty at a time in his painting glue. Sarah Blake McHam shows how the artist became a favorite among sophisticated patrons eager for pagan artworks featuring Greco-Roman mythological subjects as well as orthodox, but never ordinary, religious altarpieces and private devotional paintings. The result is a newly accessible introduction to the life of this important Renaissance artist.

Throwing the Dice of History with Marx
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 427

Throwing the Dice of History with Marx

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-01-16
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  • Publisher: BRILL

In this book Bajema seeks to use the greater emphasis on chance and the aleatory in recent Marxist theory to rethink major aspects of historical materialism, emphasising especially the plurality of historical time and space.

Italian Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 571

Italian Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

  • Categories: Art

he revival of the bronze statuette popular in classical antiquity stands out as an enduring achievement of the Italian Renaissance. These small sculptures attest to early modern artists' technical prowess, ingenuity, and desire to emulate—or even surpass—the ancients. From the studioli, or private studies, of humanist scholars in fifteenth-century Padua to the Fifth Avenue apartments of Gilded Age collectors, viewers have delighted in the mysteries of these objects: how they were made, what they depicted, who made them, and when. This catalogue is the first systematic study of The Metropolitan Museum of Art's European Sculpture and Decorative Arts collection of Italian bronzes. The colle...

Material World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 326

Material World

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-05-31
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Scholars from ancient and early modern studies, art history, literary criticism, philosophy, and the history of science explore the interplay between nature, science, and art in influential ancient texts and their reception in the Renaissance.

The Life Within
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 209

The Life Within

  • Categories: Art

Beautifully written and illustrated, The Life Within is the first full study of the vitality and materiality of Classic Maya art and writing and the quest for transcendence and immortality.

Gyorgy Kepes
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 505

Gyorgy Kepes

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-06-25
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  • Publisher: MIT Press

How Gyorgy Kepes, the last disciple of Bauhaus modernism, became the single most significant artist within a network of scientific experts and elites. Gyorgy Kepes (1906–2001) was the last disciple of Bauhaus modernism, an acolyte of László Moholy-Nagy and a self-styled revolutionary artist. But by midcentury, transplanted to America, Kepes found he was trapped in the military-industrial-aesthetic complex. In this first book-length study of Kepes, John Blakinger argues that Kepes, by opening the research laboratory to the arts, established a new paradigm for creative practice: the artist as technocrat. First at Chicago's New Bauhaus and then for many years at MIT, Kepes pioneered interdi...