Rendez-Vous with Art: The Subway Artists Then and Now
Autor Philippe de Montebelloen Limba Engleză Hardback – 7 sep 2014
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780500239247
ISBN-10: 050023924X
Pagini: 248
Dimensiuni: 160 x 232 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.75 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Thames & Hudson
Locul publicării:United States
ISBN-10: 050023924X
Pagini: 248
Dimensiuni: 160 x 232 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.75 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Thames & Hudson
Locul publicării:United States
Recenzii
Sure to provoke a response . . . The premise two art experts look at some of the world s most magnificent works in tandem is a good one, offering readers guided tours of the Louvre, the Prado, the Palazzo Pitti, and other prestigious institutions. . . . The book adds an ingenious twist to the classic approach to art criticism. Considerable insights into the featured art. "
The sprawling-yet-intimate structure works. . . . The two authors discuss why photographs never quite capture art . . . and the two art lovers mourn, as they run into a crowd at the Prado, that the more famous a picture is, the harder it is to see. "
Rather than a traditional art history or theoretical text, the authors seek to revive the timeless pleasures of looking deeply at artwork themselves and to mark the irreplaceability of first-person artistic encounters. De Montebello particularly emphasizes the importance of the viewer s own emotional connection with art in discriminating the good from the great. "
Philippe de Montebello has produced a humane and engaging volume aimed squarely at the educated lay reader . . . The book hints at the history of the museum as a societal institution and yields insights into the benefits and shortcomings of seeing art in a museum setting, where our access to objects often entails severing them from their original content. . . . It is a testament to Mr. de Montebello's character that he has chosen to write a book of this type and not an arrogant, inflammatory account of his tenure at the Met. "
An absorbing read, which should prove to be of just as much interest to the general reader as to the insider. . . . What makes these conversations so valuable is the fact that they give us something we will never otherwise have a kind of covert biography of Philippe de Montebello, combined with his response to art. "
Gayford and de Montebello engage readers with pleasant, unapologetically scholarly nostalgic conversation in dialog format. The authors are clearly passionate about their shared history of art in museums, the institutions sense of place, and even their commiseration about museum feet. Top-shelf art appreciation makes this impulsive discourse stand out. "
Rendez-vous with Art is your chance to stroll the Met, the Bargello, the Louvre, and more with de Montebello as he chats with Martin Gayford. Together, they teach us fresh ways to look at and think about their artwork the spaces that house these treasure troves. "
Handsomely produced. . . . It is not quite a book of art history, nor is it a travel book, though there is something of both genres enlivening this charming and insightful rendez-vous with art. "
The chief pleasure of reading de Montebello is to watch a connoisseur at work. Can such a refined, scholarly vision survive the current trend towards the anthropological, populist approach? "
A series of lively conversations, notable for their wit and erudition, about their encounters with great art (mostly European, pre-1800) in a half-dozen countries over two years. "
The book raises fundamental, fascinating questions about art that typically aren't raised elsewhere. Philippe de Montebello offers new takes on well-known artists like Titian, Velasquez, Goya, and Rubens, and also introduces readers to far less known and anonymous artist. Once you experience art the way de Montebello does, you will never looks at a painting, a sculpture, or even a museum visit the same way. "
As we accompany the two friends on their wanderings, we get an unvarnished glimpse of where their affections and prejudices lie. Normally, such insights are rare....Would that Rendez-vous with Art were made required reading in today's postgraduate art history programs! "
Few books of late have pleased me as much as this one....Not the least value of this volume is the discussion of a matter that never makes it into art writing, neither criticism nor art history: the physical and emotional interaction between the painting on the wall and the human who stands before it, in a state of greater or lesser receptivity. "
The sprawling-yet-intimate structure works. . . . The two authors discuss why photographs never quite capture art . . . and the two art lovers mourn, as they run into a crowd at the Prado, that the more famous a picture is, the harder it is to see. "
Rather than a traditional art history or theoretical text, the authors seek to revive the timeless pleasures of looking deeply at artwork themselves and to mark the irreplaceability of first-person artistic encounters. De Montebello particularly emphasizes the importance of the viewer s own emotional connection with art in discriminating the good from the great. "
Philippe de Montebello has produced a humane and engaging volume aimed squarely at the educated lay reader . . . The book hints at the history of the museum as a societal institution and yields insights into the benefits and shortcomings of seeing art in a museum setting, where our access to objects often entails severing them from their original content. . . . It is a testament to Mr. de Montebello's character that he has chosen to write a book of this type and not an arrogant, inflammatory account of his tenure at the Met. "
An absorbing read, which should prove to be of just as much interest to the general reader as to the insider. . . . What makes these conversations so valuable is the fact that they give us something we will never otherwise have a kind of covert biography of Philippe de Montebello, combined with his response to art. "
Gayford and de Montebello engage readers with pleasant, unapologetically scholarly nostalgic conversation in dialog format. The authors are clearly passionate about their shared history of art in museums, the institutions sense of place, and even their commiseration about museum feet. Top-shelf art appreciation makes this impulsive discourse stand out. "
Rendez-vous with Art is your chance to stroll the Met, the Bargello, the Louvre, and more with de Montebello as he chats with Martin Gayford. Together, they teach us fresh ways to look at and think about their artwork the spaces that house these treasure troves. "
Handsomely produced. . . . It is not quite a book of art history, nor is it a travel book, though there is something of both genres enlivening this charming and insightful rendez-vous with art. "
The chief pleasure of reading de Montebello is to watch a connoisseur at work. Can such a refined, scholarly vision survive the current trend towards the anthropological, populist approach? "
A series of lively conversations, notable for their wit and erudition, about their encounters with great art (mostly European, pre-1800) in a half-dozen countries over two years. "
The book raises fundamental, fascinating questions about art that typically aren't raised elsewhere. Philippe de Montebello offers new takes on well-known artists like Titian, Velasquez, Goya, and Rubens, and also introduces readers to far less known and anonymous artist. Once you experience art the way de Montebello does, you will never looks at a painting, a sculpture, or even a museum visit the same way. "
As we accompany the two friends on their wanderings, we get an unvarnished glimpse of where their affections and prejudices lie. Normally, such insights are rare....Would that Rendez-vous with Art were made required reading in today's postgraduate art history programs! "
Few books of late have pleased me as much as this one....Not the least value of this volume is the discussion of a matter that never makes it into art writing, neither criticism nor art history: the physical and emotional interaction between the painting on the wall and the human who stands before it, in a state of greater or lesser receptivity. "
Descriere
Beginning with a fragment of yellow jasper all that is left of the face of an Egyptian woman who lived 3,500 years ago this book confronts the elusive questions: how, and why, do we look at art? Philippe de Montebello and Martin Gayford talked in art galleries or churches or their own homes, and this book is structured around their journeys. But whether they were in the Louvre or the Prado, the Mauritshuis of the Palazzo Pitti, they reveal the pleasures of truly looking. De Montebello shares the sense of excitement recorded by Goethe in his autobiography "akin to the emotion experienced on entering a House of God" but also reflects on why these secular temples might nevertheless be the "worst possible places to look at art." But in the end both men convey, with subtlety and brilliance, the delights and significance of their subject matter and some of the intense creations of human beings throughout our long history."
Notă biografică
Philippe de Montebello is the longest-serving director in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's history. His retirement in 2008 was described as the end of an era 'in the cultural life of the city, the state, the nation, and the world'. He is a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts and an Officier de la Légion d'Honneur, and has a worldwide influence on cultural policies, often in an advisory capacity. He is now Fiske Kimball Professor at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts and an Honorary Trustee of the Prado Museum.
Cuprins
Preface . Introduction: Yellow Jasper Lips at the Met . 1. Afternoon in Florence . 2. A Flood and a Chimera . 3. Immersed in the Bargello . 4. A Sense of Place . 5. The Case of the Duccio Madonna . 6. In the Met Café: A Biographical Interlude . 7. Princely Collections . 8. An Artistic Education Sentimentale . 9. Lost in the Louvre . 10. Crowds and the Power of Art: A Transatlantic Conversation . 11. In the Prado . 12. Hieronymus Bosch and the Hell of Looking at Art with Other People . 13. Titian and Velázquez . 14. Las Meninas . 15. Goya: An Excursion . 16. Rubens, Tiepolo, Goya Again . 17. Rotterdam: Museums and their Discontents . 18. Star-Spotting at the Mauritshuis . 19. Where Do You Put It? . 20. Exploring the Jungles of Paris . 21. Hunting Lions at the British Museum . 22. Lunch in the Great Court . 23. Fragments