Titres dans Histoire et critique de l'art

"Mason Currey is the undisputed master of finding, in the messy lives of great artists and thinkers throughout time, deeply human lessons about cultivating meaning in our current age." —Cal Newport, New York Times bestselling author of Slow Productivity and Deep Work Daily Rituals author Mason...

Treize scandales célèbres racontés dans cet ouvrage délicieux, tantôt comiques, souvent pathétiques, parfois tragiques. Ces affaires sont analysées pour lutter contre deux idées : non, il n’existe pas de “génie” du faux (sauf ceux qui n’ont pas été attrapés) ; oui, il y en a partout, et ils sont très difficilement détectables. 40 % des œuvres du Metropolitan Museum of Art de New York sont des faux – c’est du moins l’opinion de son ancien directeur, Thomas Hoving.

Everything about Picasso, except his physical stature, was on an enormous scale. His appetite for sex and money, eating and drinking, friends and quarrels, comedy and tragedy, are legendary. No artist of the first rank has been so aw-inspiringly productive. No artist of any rank has made so much money. A few artists have rivalled his life-span of ninety years, but none has attracted so insatiable a public interest. Patrick O’Brian, author of the famous Aubrey-Maturin novels, was a near neighbour of Picasso’s in the south of France for many years and knew him well.

Reacting to the tumultuous crises of the twentieth century, especially the horrors of World War I, avant-garde artists and writers sought to destroy art by transforming it into the substance of everyday life. Following the evolution of these revolutionary groups, How to Be Avant-Garde charts its pioneers and radical ideas.

This combination of serious artistic engagement with warmth and clarity of prose revels in the experiences and pleasures of art and the body, identity, and community.

What is art? A mere imitation of life or something far greater—an act of creation that reveals the soul of the universe? Ralph Waldo Emerson, the philosopher-poet of American transcendentalism, elevates art beyond the canvas, beyond words, beyond form itself. In this essay, he explores the divine spark within creativity, arguing that true art is not bound by technique or tradition but flows from the spirit of the artist, a force both mysterious and essential.

In this revolutionary book, Joan Breton Connelly challenges our most basic assumptions about the Parthenon and the ancient Athenians. Beginning with the natural environment and its rich mythic associations, she re-creates the development of the Acropolis - the Sacred Rock at the heart of the city-state - from its prehistoric origins to its Periklean glory days as a constellation of temples among which the Parthenon stood supreme.

Sheridan Morley writes: "When my father died at eighty-four on the morning of Derby Day 1992 (one of the few he ever missed), he and I had been together for just over fifty years. In the immediate aftermath of his sudden death, I knew two things; how much I would always miss the sheer joy of his company, and how much I wanted to write about him, if only to explain to myself and my children the life and career of the last great Boulevardier of his or any other time."

Découvrez "Histoire de l'art. Tome 4. L'art moderne" d'Élie Faure, lu par Lluís Pujol, un voyage philosophique et poétique au cœur de la création artistique. Dans ce tome final, Faure transcende les époques pour explorer l'essence de l'art comme pulsation vitale de l'humanité. Des idoles nègres aux chefs-d'œuvre de Venise, il révèle les liens profonds entre races, cultures et expressions figurées, analysant le rythme alternant de synthèse et d'analyse qui anime l'Histoire.

Ce troisième tome de l'Histoire de l'art d'Élie Faure est une immersion magistrale dans l'essence de la Renaissance, cette ère de renaissance créative où l'art transcende le Moyen Âge pour embrasser l'individualisme et l'humanisme. À travers une analyse vivante des foyers italiens comme Florence, Rome et Venise, l'auteur décrypte les révolutions esthétiques portées par des géants tels que Michel-Ange, Léonard de Vinci, Raphaël et Titien.

The war that we now call the American Revolution was not only fought in the colonies with muskets and bayonets. On both sides of the Atlantic, artists armed with paint, canvas, and wax played an integral role in forging revolutionary ideals.

“Elon Green’s grimly vivid telling of this story and its aftermath in The Man Nobody Killed is part elegy for Stewart himself, part portrait of the city that failed him… The events recounted in Green’s swift, unsparing book are as timely as ever; one can only hope they still have the...

How did the greatest artists in history look at the world through new eyes? And what can we learn from the imagination, boldness, and originality of their art? From the allusive frescos of the Renaissance to the cool irony of conceptual art in the 20th century, this is the ultimate guide to the greatest artists of the human age. Curator and writer Catherine Daunt interweaves the lives and loves of these great artists with moving and enlightening descriptions of their most famous and important works.

Leo Tolstoy is one of the most celebrated novelists of all time. As well as writing literary classics such as Anna Karenina and War and Peace, he was also the author of some hugely influential critical and philosophical works. First published in 1898, his book-length essay What is Art? has lost none of its power to challenge our perception of art and its function in society today.

When, how, where, does a mark become a musical note? What alchemy occurs to transform a symbol into sound: a song; a symphony; a chorus?

Long before the phrase ‘man’s best friend’ became common parlance, dogs were already standing beside us in art as in life. In The Dog’s Gaze, the historian Thomas W. Laqueur invites us to explore why they feature more than any other animal in the ways in which we picture ourselves and our stories.

Modern art is best described as a psychological disease, the goal of which is nothing less than the total destruction of art—which it has more or less successfully done. Modern art is not a natural evolution of art, but a kind of manufactured break from tradition, borne from a hubris and bias towards historical values.

When Olivia Laing moved to New York City in her mid-thirties, she found herself inhabiting loneliness on a daily basis. Increasingly fascinated by the most shameful of experiences, she began to explore the lonely city by way of art. Moving from Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks to Andy Warhol’s Time Capsules, from Henry Darger’s hoarding to David Wojnarowicz’s AIDS activism, Laing conducts an electric, dazzling investigation into what it means to be alone, illuminating not only the causes of loneliness but also how it might be resisted and redeemed.

Especialista em história da música popular brasileira, o jornalista e escritor Sérgio Cabral compõe um relato da vida da cantora, voz que não apenas esteve na linha de frente dos principais momentos da moderna música brasileira, mas também se engajou como poucas na política de seu tempo...

O livro descreve o surgimento, nos anos 1920, do rádio de galena,no Rio de Janeiro,através do qual se projetariam duas manifestações musicais básicas da música popular: o maxixe e o choro.Sérgio se debruça sobre a influência da política republicana nas composições, sobre a...