In part we create the sights we see, and we may ourselves be poets of sight. The key concept throughout this book is visual metaphor, which is explored in art from Picasso to Kapoor, in poetry from Eliot to Hughes and in aesthetics from Pound to Derrida"
"In part we create the sights we see, and we may ourselves be poets of sight. The key concept throughout this book is visual metaphor, which is explored in art from Picasso to Kapoor, in poetry from Eliot to Hughes and in aesthetics from Pound to Derrida" --
Ut pictura poesis», Horace said, but through the two millennia in which ±the sister arts» have been compared, little has been said about the nature of sight itself. What we see in ±our mind’s eye» as we read has not been explored, though by following the visu…
"In part we create the sights we see, and we may ourselves be poets of sight. The key concept throughout this book is visual metaphor, which is explored in art from Picasso to Kapoor, in poetry from Eliot to Hughes and in aesthetics from Pound to Derrida."
"In part we create the sights we see, and we may ourselves be poets of sight. The key concept throughout this book is visual metaphor, which is explored in art from Picasso to Kapoor, in poetry from Eliot to Hughes and in aesthetics from Pound to Derrida"--
"In part we create the sights we see, and we may ourselves be poets of sight. The key concept throughout this book is visual metaphor, which is explored in art from Picasso to Kapoor, in poetry from Eliot to Hughes and in aesthetics from Pound to Derrida"--
Unravels the tricks of master-illusionists, demonstrating how readers can create their own creative and personalised illusions, with step-by-step exercises. Also takes an in-depth look at artists such as M.C. Escher and Magritte.
Unravels the tricks of master-illusionists, demonstrating how readers can create their own creative and personalised illusions, with step-by-step exercises. Also takes an in-depth look at artists such as M.C. Escher and Magritte.
This book is both a philosophical enquiry into the nature of depiction and a critical study of particular artists : Donatello, Rembrandt, Chardin and Hogarth. It examines how the materials and procedure of the painter or sculptor are absorbed into imagining the subject.
In this book the authors investigate how iconology as a field and method, which originated within art history, relates to recent developments in the Humanities such as Anthropology and Visual Studies. The main questions are: How has iconology evolved in the past decennia, could …
In this book the authors investigate how iconology as a field and method, which originated within art history, relates to recent developments in the Humanities such as Anthropology and Visual Studies. The main questions are: How has iconology evolved in the past decennia, could …
