Surprising, questioning, challenging, enriching: the Pocket Perspectives series celebrates writers and thinkers who have helped shape the conversation across the arts. Mixing classic and contemporary texts, reissues and abridgements, these are bite-sized, fully illustrated reads in an attractive, affordable and highly collectable package.
Seventeenth-century Europe swirled with conjectures and debates over what was real and what constituted 'nature', currents that would soon gather force to form modern science. Natural Light deliberates on the eras uncertainties, as distilled in the work of painter Adam Elsheimer a short-lived, tragic German artist who has always been something of a cult secret. Elsheimers diminutive, intense an…
«Che cos'è la pittura? Potete rispondere a questa domanda molto semplicemente prendendo un pennello; ma se invece decidete di rispondere usando le parole, scoprirete che le risposte sono molte e che, sebbene esse siano tutte collegate tra loro, ciascuna implica ulteriori domande di natura filosofica e storica...» Questo libro spiega in che modo le immagini dipinte sono state interpretate nel…
At the turn of the twenty-first century, many felt sceptical or confused about paintings on-going cultural relevance. In this context, Julian Bells What is Painting? provided an accessible and inspired account of artistic thinking and practice, and of the complexities then facing artists and their audiences. Eighteen years on, the situation is partly reversed. Painting has proved too resilient …