REALITY IN THE MIRROR OF ART.
Author: Bek, Lise
Country: Denmark
Language: English
Year Published: 2003
No. of pages: 572
Illustrations: 71 Color Illustrations. 47 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Hardbound
Size: 10”x 7”
Weight: 4.00
ISBN: 877288860I
Biblio/Bio: Bibl. Index.
Code: 5456
Price: $105.00
From Ice Age caves to virtual galleries on the internet, art has been helping human beings make sense of their world for millenia. Yet while this volume embraces the development of visual art down through the ages, it is from just another universal history of art, an art-historical genre that the author says “has long since outlived its day”. Instead, Lise Bek draws on instances from art’s vast history to present arguments for one quite specific claim: that the way we understand reality determines how we relate to our visible surroudings. As the seven chapters follow painting and allied media from their use in subservient roles to their unfolding as aesthetic ends in themselves, the emphasis shifts from external factors to the intrinsic problems of art.
RELIEFS EN BRONZE D’ÉTRURIE (Etruscan Bronze Reliefs).
Author: Johansen, Flemming
Country: Denmark
Language: French
Year Published: 1971
No. of pages: 234
Illustrations: 0 Color Illustrations. 197 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Softbound
Size: 12”x 9”
Weight: 3.00
ISBN: 8774520040
Biblio/Bio: Cat. of exh. Index. Bibl.
Code: 4753
Price: $39.50
Here, eleven bronze plaques from Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek are presented in detailed, catalogue form. Later chapters discuss their rich iconography and their origin in Erutria, while situating these works in a cultural-historical framework. Also includes an analysis of the plaques’ decorative aspects, their original function and use and the techniques that led to their creation.
REMBRANDT AND HIS PUPILS. Papers Given at a Symposium in Nationalmuseum, Stockholm
Author: Cavalli-Björkman, Görel, ed
Country: Sweden
Language: English
Year Published: 1992
No. of pages: 233
Illustrations: 95 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Hardbound
Size: 8 1/2”x 7”
Weight: 2.00
ISBN: 9171004637
Biblio/Bio:
Code: 3901
Price: $45.00
In celebration of Nationalmuseum’s bicentenary anniversary, the museum held an impressive exhibition on Rembrandt and his school. This book includes a collection of 13 essays which investigate varied topics such as the authenticity of Rembrandt’s paintings, Rembrandt and his followers, his early portraits, his drawings from prints, the restoration of his Danae painting, as well as Rembrandt’s ‘The Kitchen Maid: Problems of Provenance and Iconography’. This book is a must for any art historian or layperson hoping to unravel the mystery behind Rembrandt’s legacy.
REMBRANDT OCH HANS TID / REMBRANDT AND HIS AGE. Människan i Centrum / Focus on Man
Author: Cavalli-Björkman, Görel
Country: Sweden
Language: Swedish/English
Year Published: 1992
No. of pages: 412
Illustrations: 125 Color Illustrations. 100 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Hardbound
Size: 11 1/2”x 8 1/2”
Weight: 4.00
ISBN: 9171004165
Biblio/Bio: Cat. of exh. Bibl. Index.
Code: 3778
Price: $95.00
Recent research on the life and work of Rembrandt have forced us to abandon our image of him as a solitary genius. For this reason, this exhibition presents twenty of Rembrandt’s paintings and thirty of his drawings as the nucleus of a broader presentation including works by his pupils and contemporaries. Finally we are beginning to attribute some of his talent to influences such as his teachers, students, and contemporaries, as well as the age in which he lived. Also, it is only natural that the Dutch 17th century, headed by Rembrandt, should play such a prominent part in Nationalmuseum’s bicentenary celebrations, considering the extent of their collections from that age and region, greatly due to Gustav III’s Francophile orientation. Participate in this wondrous display of talent in the age of Rembrandt and grant his contemporaries the attention they rightly deserve. Extensive captions in Swedish only.
Ring, Lauritz Anders: L.A. RING.
Author: Larsen, Peter Nørgaard, ed
Country: Denmark
Language: Danish
Year Published: 2006
No. of pages: 128
Illustrations: 32 Color Illustrations. 79 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Clothbound with Jacket
Size: 8”x 10”
Weight: 4.00
ISBN: 8790096754
Biblio/Bio: Bibl. Bio. Cat. of exh.
Code: 5889
Price: $49.50
Ring’s paintings testify to the radical artistic and cultural shifts that took place in the decades around 1900, more so than the works of many other artists from the period. Painted on the threshold of modern life, Ring’s works contain the new as concrete objects, as motifs, but also “the modern” as a state of mind. The exhibition and catalogue aim to place Ring in relation to the somewhat diffuse concepts of realism and symbolism, providing audiences with insights into how Ring utilizes both strategies in his art and how the shifts between the two views of the world are of fundamental significance to how we experience the works.