Research Catalog

Title

A new history of Western art : from antiquity to the present day / Koenraad Jonckheere ; translation, Ted Alkins.

Author

Jonckheere, Koenraad

Publication

• New Haven, CT : Yale ; [Belgium] : Hannibal, [2022]
• New Haven, CT : Distributed by Yale University Press
• Bruges, Belgium : Printing by die Keure
• Oostkamp, Belgium : Binding by IBW
• ©2022

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Details

Additional Authors

Alkins, Ted

Description

471 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 30 cm

Summary

"'A New History of Western Art' deconstructs and demystifies the long history of art in Europe to reveal how and why certain works of art become iconic and enduring in their appeal. How has art evolved from the pursuit of the 'ideal' human form to a black square on a white canvas? Why is a banana duct-taped to a wall worth more on the art market than a beautiful seventeenth-century landscape? By taking art for what it actually is -- a piece of stone or wood, a sheet of paper with some lines drawn on it, a painted canvas -- this lively and accessible account shows how seemingly meaningless objects can be transformed into celebrated works of art. Breaking with conventional notions of artistic genius, Koenraad Jonckheere explores how stories and emotions give meaning to objects, and why changing historical circumstances result in such shifting opinions over time. Tracing its story from ancient times to present, A New History of Western Art reframes the evolution of European art and radically reshapes our understanding of art history." --

Subject

• Art, European > History
• Art and society > Europe
• Art
• Europe

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• includes bibliographical references (pages 448-454) and index.

Contents

Introduction: From black square to kaleidoscope -- Chapter 1: Art as product -- City-state rivalry -- Bronze and the lost-wax technique -- Mass production -- Marble -- Art for church and state -- Fresh dynamism -- Prints -- Printmaking techniques (I) -- Booming business -- Successful formulas: the seventeenth century -- Rubens's workshop -- Collecting -- Extravagance -- Plunder for the people -- Stifling academicism, liberating modernism -- A new clientele -- Printmaking techniques (II) -- Craft, connoisseurship and economics -- Chapter 2: Art as idea -- Thinking about art in antiquity -- Mimemata -- Plato and mimesis -- Emotion and expression -- Pliny the Elder -- 'Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image' -- Old questions, new premises -- Florence -- Drawing -- The North: art as theory -- Iconoclastic controversy -- Giorgio Vasari -- Outside Italy -- France, Spain and Portugal -- The discovery of the beholder -- Noble simplicity and quiet grandeur -- Sublimation -- Art as theory -- Chapter 3: Art(s) and science -- Ideal proportions -- Artes -- Fresco -- Rethinking -- Perspective -- Tempera and oil paint -- Van Eyck and oil paint -- Panel or canvas? -- Broader horizons -- New knowledge, different challenges -- The discovery of reason and emotion -- Pathos in a world of reason -- Clarity -- Euphoria to despair -- Photography: the ultimate marriage of art and science -- Art, science and poetry rethought -- Art as catalyst of emotion and knowledge -- Chapter 4: Art, power and faith -- From Pericles to Alexander the Great -- Rome as a world power -- Searching for new balances -- Different power relations, different art -- Experimental art in a century of power struggles -- Show of power -- The call of Rome -- The heavens open -- Fragile ideals -- Revolutionary urge -- Freedom -- Salon des Refusés -- Art and ideology -- Chapter 5: Form and content -- Style and meaning -- The problem of 'style' -- Meaning -- Antiquity -- Rome -- Early Middle Ages -- Refinement -- Rinascimento en Ars nova -- The sixteenth century: strengthening ties -- High Renaissance -- Venice -- Germany and the Low Countries -- Big ambitions -- Baroque and Classicism -- The Dutch Republic -- Rococo: watchword 'excess' -- Back to the source -- Romanticism and Realism -- Impressionism and the revolution in art -- Isms -- Epilogue: Art as interaction.

Call Number

JQF 24-409

ISBN

• 9780300267525
• 0300267525

LCCN

2022937865

OCLC

1343154383

Author

Jonckheere, Koenraad, author.

Title

A new history of Western art : from antiquity to the present day / Koenraad Jonckheere ; translation, Ted Alkins.

Publisher

New Haven, CT : Yale ; [Belgium] : Hannibal, [2022]

Distributor

New Haven, CT : Distributed by Yale University Press

Manufacturer

Bruges, Belgium : Printing by die Keure

Oostkamp, Belgium : Binding by IBW

Copyright Date

©2022

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

includes bibliographical references (pages 448-454) and index.

Added Author

Alkins, Ted, translator.

Research Call Number

JQF 24-409