The Artist's Studio: A Cultural History – A Times Best Art Book of 2022

ISBN-13: 9780500021712 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 288 str.

James Hall

Recenzje

'Innovative and wide-ranging ... James Hall's breadth of reference - and choice of images - is impressive, from Greek red figure vases to Francis Bacon's paint-encrusted and cluttered workspace via Renaissance workshops and the Victorian war chronicler Roger Fenton's mobile photographic carriage ... [the studio] has, as Hall persuasively argues, been integral in artists projecting themselves as being more than mere craftsmen' - The Times, Art Books of the Year

Spis treści

Introduction
1. Luxury and Lameness: the Shield of Achilles
2. Wisdom's Workshop: Simon the Shoemaker
3. Struggles in the Scriptorium: Waging War on Dead Skin
4. Pure Gold: doing God's (or the Devil's) Work.
5. The Velvet Revolution: Cennini's Studietto
6. Piety and Pretentiousness: St Luke paints the Virgin.
7. 'Always Keeping Paper in his Hand': A School for Art and Scandal
8. In and Out of the Comfort Zone: Leonardo versus Michelangelo
9. Creatures of the Night: 'Only the dark serves to plant man'
10. Making a Spectacle: The Systematic Studio
11. Mirrors of Process: Velázquez to Reynolds
12. Women in the Studio: Love, Inspiration, Destitution, Crimes of Passion
13. Chaste Space: Cells and Garrets
14. Eliminating Easels: Workshop and Factory
15. Inside / Outside: Studios for Nomads

O autorze

James Hall is an art critic, historian, lecturer and broadcaster. He was formerly Chief Art Critic of The Sunday Correspondent and of the Guardian. He contributes to the Guardian Saturday Review, The Times and Times Literary Supplement, as well as to many magazines and catalogues. He is the author of several books including The Self-Portrait: A Cultural History (Thames & Hudson, 2014), which the Sunday Times hailed as 'fascinating, erudite and beautifully produced'.