- Gebundene Ausgabe: 400 Seiten
- Verlag: Knopf (12. Dezember 2000)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0375400990
- ISBN-13: 978-0375400995
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 21,1 x 13,2 x 4,1 cm
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 413.486 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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The lovingly crafted little tome The Art of Arts might become a cult classic if there are enough Jan van Eyck fans out there--or enough readers who can chew their way through 775 footnotes--to make this work of special genius even an underground bestseller. It is filled with delectable details (for example, that an image of a mill in a landscape connotes a wanton woman, complete with a page of explanations why) and myriad perspicacious observations. In discussing such masterworks as van Eyck's Madonna of Chancellor Rolin, author Anita Albus draws the reader into a vanished world of alternative perspectives, painterly depths of color and atmosphere, and the mesmerizing minutiae of late-medieval and Renaissance symbolism. The last chapter of the book, "Of Lost Colors," combines metallurgy, history, meticulous scholarship, and the author's passionate comprehension of colors in a discussion of antique pigments and their physical properties and pictorial uses.
The book's mostly paragraph-long sentences may put off some readers, and the warm, wry, even sly prose--its liveliness, in other words--may raise the hackles of the dowdy art-historical crowd (not the stylish, open-minded one). But this miniaturist's view of the northern Renaissance will copiously reward those who peruse it slowly, especially artists. Although it is possible to become lost in some chapters, as Albus tiptoes unhurriedly toward some arcane, elusive point, in the end it's hard to resist the sort of book that declares of the late 17th century: "Research into arthropods was in the air." This volume is a work of art, complete in itself, meticulously ordered according to the artist's unique vision, and handsomely "framed" by a sensitive designer. --Peggy Moorman
From Library Journal
Artist and writer Albus presents us with an interesting little enigma of a book. Ostensibly tracing the birth of oil painting, Albus cloaks this story in a complex and often opaque cultural history of the 15th and 16th centuries. Focusing on a few key painters Jan Van Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden, Gerard David, Hans Memlinc, and a few others Albus attempts to clarify how two features of modern painting three-dimensionality and the vivid colors of oil paints transformed the art form. Though the reader is occasionally caught up in her interesting stories (on the art of curing tobacco, for instance), they detract rather than add to the coherence of her thesis. The combination of a specialized focus and diffuse style result in an ultimately unsatisfying book. Recommended only for large collections of aesthetic history. Martin R. Kalfatovic, Smithsonian Inst. Libs., Washington, DC
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Traditional painters and Van Eyck fans will love this book!
12. September 2001
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I have recommended this book to several people and now it is available in paperback! It contains many nuggests of information a traditional oil painter will treasure. For example, the lapis lazuli-based pigment used by Van Eyck in his paintings contained tiny flecks of stone which added richness and sparkle to the paint. It was also irregularly ground and refracts light differently than the modern homogeneous synthetic "ultramarine blue" pigment available today. It was precious in Van Eyck's time, but today lapis lazuli ultramarine is more costly than gold per ounce. Albus devotes much of the book to historical pigments and shares recipes for making them.
My complaint with the book is that it is a strangely-shaped volume (it is extremely narrow and tall) and is uncomfortable to hold. Still, the early chapters on Van Eyck's paintings and the historical pigments will entice painters interested in effects not possible with modern pigments.
My complaint with the book is that it is a strangely-shaped volume (it is extremely narrow and tall) and is uncomfortable to hold. Still, the early chapters on Van Eyck's paintings and the historical pigments will entice painters interested in effects not possible with modern pigments.
well expressed with a nod to the painting studio process
31. Mai 2012
Format:Taschenbuch
This could very well be a boring book for anyone looking to clarify art history. It isn't that. It's something different. The copious footnotes are indeed there but it shows a well researched and wide ranging application of resources, they're not something to be read as the text. The writer's eye toward the physical aspect of painting is undeniable. Most painters love the connections between the historical works and the enduring thread to their current practices. The work is well researched and her writing, to me, never gets that clinical. Her history is not data but the flesh and sinew of oil painting. It's not "well illustrated" but provides a number of fold out images that reinforce her narrative points. The section dealing with the paint itself is a glimpse into the sense and interest of the painter about the importance of color, it's visual function, surface substance, and how the artist was connected to the growing aspect of scientific personal discovery. If you like to go back to a book that you've read before and randomly open it and just start to read...it can be that kind of book. I suspect every reader will find a section that drags a bit. It's not a thriller. Lovely written, often poetic, the kind of book that ends up on your shelf.
A gorgeously idiosyncratic work of art
24. Januar 2011
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Only in the narrowest sense can The Art of Arts be said to be a scholarly work about Northern European painting. A blend of aesthetics, visual art, natural science, myth, poetry, and arcana, I can only think that Ms. Albus immersed herself so completely in the age she studies that she emerged a magus. More than simply beautifully designed and written, the Art of Arts is a joy to the eye and mind--a work of art to be savored as art, the expression of a unique consciousness that can be appreciated only when viewed in its entirety.
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