Research Catalog

Title

Great works : encounters with art / Michael Glover.

Author

Glover, Michael, 1949-

Publication

• Munich : Prestel, [2016]
• ©2016

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Details

Description

271 pages : color illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

"London poet, editor and art critic, Michael Glover, has been contributing his popular and engaging art essays to The Independent for the best part of ten years. Now, for the first time, a selection of fifty of his essays, some of which have been written exclusively for this volume, have been collected together in book form. Covering a vast span of styles and works from every era, each essay is accompanied by full-colour illustrations of the work in focus."--

Subject

• Art criticism
• Critique d'art
• art criticism
• ART > Criticism & Theory
• ART > History
• Exhibition catalogues

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogues.
• essays.
• Essays.
• Essais.

Contents

• Machine generated contents note: A Brief Note by the Author -- The Overbearing Monstrousness of the Visionary Moment -- The Ghost of a Flea (c. 1819 -- 20), William Blake -- The Steely, Ascetic Countenance of a Cunning Diplomat -- Doge Loredan (1504), Giovanni Bellini -- The Cinematic Brashness of the Deaths of the World's Greatest Beasts -- The Assyrian Lion Hunt (645 -- 655 BC), unknown artist -- An Overwhelming Interior World of Troubling Tunnelling ... -- Backdoor Pipeline (2010), Richard Serra -- The Magnificent Return of the Manga Superheroes of the Past -- Last Stand of the Kusunoki Heroes at Shijo-Nawate (1851), Utagawa Kuniyoshi -- Such a Comical Ramshackle Beast -- Pocked, Weathered, Pre-tannery ... -- The Cow with the Subtile Nose (1954), Jean Dubuffet -- Painting the Cold Currency of Those Democratic Lowlanders -- Winter Landscape with Skaters (c. 1608), Hendrick Avercamp -- A Masterful Sampling of History in the Making
• Note continued: The Art of Painting (c. 1666 -- 67), Johannes Vermeer -- An Apotheosis of the Spirit of the Pumpkin -- Starry Pumpkin Gold (2014), Yayoi Kusama -- The Pendulum Swings from Age to Youth -- The Swing (c. 1767), Jean-Honore Fragonard -- Mystery Heaped upon Mystery -- Landscape with the Fall of Icarus (1554 -- 55), Pieter Bruegel the Elder -- Deaths by Anonymity -- The Execution of Emperor Maximilian (1867), Edouard Manet -- The Bold-Breasted Dominatrix Strides Forth -- The Alcove: An Interior with Three Figures (1939), Leonor Fini -- Sweetly Tweaked Creature, No Sooner Blown but Blasted -- Gabrielle d'Estrees and One of Her Sisters (c. 1594), unknown artist -- The Sweet, Self-Delighting Floatingness of It All -- Bird Garden (1924), Paul Klee -- In Praise of the Modesty of Well-Made, Painted Things -- The Courtyard of a House in Delft (1658), Pieter de Hooch -- The Infinite Patience of the Unlovely Collaborator
• Note continued: Madame Cezanne in a Red Armchair (c. 1877), Paul Cezanne -- The Banker's Act of Worshipful Extravagance -- The Adoration of the Magi (1423), Gentile da Fabriano -- The Crushed Blushings of Autumnal Excess -- Autunno (1993 -- 95), Cy Twombly -- When the Exotics Steamed in to Gawp at the Seaside -- The Beach at Trouville (1875), Eugene Boudin -- A Savage Crew in Brilliant Light -- Crucifixion of St Peter (1601), Caravaggio -- The Teasing Allure of the Malevolent Protectress -- Spider (2007), Louise Bourgeois -- God's Sobering Judgement -- The Expulsion from the Garden of Eden (1425 -- 27), Masaccio -- A Message-Bearing Simulacrum of Treeness -- Iron Tree (2013), Ai Weiwei -- The Abiding Stench of the Charnel House -- The Dead Christ (c. 1480), Andrea Mantegna -- War's Terrible Desolations -- Cosmos and Disaster (c. 1936), David Alfaro Siqueiros -- The Indomitable Solidity of the Thing Itself -- Study of the Trunk of an Elm Tree (c. 1824), John Constable
• Note continued: The Coy, Voluptuous Prize -- Bathsheba with King David's Letter (1654), Rembrandt -- The Hurrying Ahead of the Ever Disappearing Jesus -- Christ's Entry into Brussels in 1889 (1888), James Ensor -- A Marvellously Shadowy Game of Prestidigitation -- An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump (1768), Joseph Wright of Derby -- A Savage Witnessing to the Patient Application of Paint -- Dead Girl (2002), Marlene Dumas -- From Squirming Rampancy to Perfect Composure -- The Lady with an Ermine (portrait of Cecilia Gallerani) (1489 -- 90), Leonardo da Vinci -- The Vast and Humbling Horrors of the Creation -- Traveller above the Mists (1818), Caspar David Friedrich -- A Dispassionate Act of Pure Vengeance? -- Judith Slaying Holofernes (c. 1614 -- 20), Artemisia Gentileschi -- The Preposterous Posing of a Bunch of Bananas -- The Uncertainty of the Poet (1913), Giorgio de Chirico -- A Menacing Quartet of Merciless Leerers
• Note continued: Christ Mocked (The Crowning with Thorns) (1490 -- 1500), Hieronymus Bosch -- The Steady, Full-Frontal Solemnity of the Jesus of His Day -- Self-Portrait (1500), Albrecht Durer -- Such an Engorging Emblem of Shapeliness -- Single Lily with Red (1928), Georgia O'Keeffe -- The Uncanny Watchfulness of the Imperial Oppressor -- The Meroe Head of Augustus (27 -- 25 BC), unknown artist -- The Dance of the Prestidigitatory Image-Maker -- The Clown (Le Clown) (1945), Henri Matisse -- The Blakean Sun God Bursts Forth -- The Resurrection of Christ (c. 1510 -- 15), Matthias Grunewald -- The Ravishing Allure of the Provisional -- The Vision of St John (1608 -- 14), El Greco -- The Unsettled Wrenching Awry of the Human Form -- Death and the Maiden (1915 -- 16), Egon Schiele -- The Mirroring of the Mysteries -- Las Meninas (1656), Diego Velasquez -- Yet Another Bloody Martyr to the Revolutionary Cause -- The Death of Marat (1793), Jacques-Louis David
• Note continued: Misunderstanding in Carrara Marble -- L.O.V.E. (2010), Maurizio Cattelan -- The Medici Court Painter's Bewitchingly Twisty Carnality ... -- An Allegory with Venus and Cupid (c. 1545), Bronzino -- The Thunderous Spectacle of Sheer Water -- Niagara Falls, from the American Side (1867), Frederic Edwin Church -- The Mute Maker in a Fatherland of Nostalgia -- Carpenter (1928 -- 29), Kazimir Malevich -- Making It Inside Out -- House (1993), Rachel Whiteread.

ISBN

• 9783791383019
• 3791383019

LCCN

2017288558

OCLC

• ocn946482617
• 946482617
• SCSB-1869761

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library