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Look Again: How to Experience the Old Masters

Ward, Ossian

 
9780500239674: Look Again: How to Experience the Old Masters
ISBN 10: 0500239673 ISBN 13: 9780500239674
Verlag: Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2019

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This book engages with some of history’s greatest art, from the spectacular theatrics of Bosch to the luminous scenes of Giotto, and starts with the idea that the art of the past can and should be seen from the viewpoint of a contemporary observer of visual culture—rather than just an elitist, academic interpretation.Ossian Ward’s simple, ten-step guide acts as an aid to looking at and breaking down the often obscure strategies of the Old Masters into intuitive categories—from Art as Honesty to Art as Vision. Just as contemporary art should be judged by how it moves us, cajoles our senses, and envelops us, so too can the great paintings of history be seen as immersive, captivating, and even participatory experiences.Look Again

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Ossian Ward is head of content at the Lisson Gallery. He was previously chief art critic at Time Out London, and is also the author of Ways of Looking: How to Experience Contemporary Art.

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The art of the past can seem very far away, obscured both by time and by knotty academic theory. Foregrounding the experience of the contemporary viewer, Look Again shows how this need not be the case. Ossian Ward's simple, ten-step programme acts as an aid to looking, breaking down the often obscure strategies of the Old Masters into intuitive categories - from Art as Honesty to Art as Vision.

Look Again's novel approach is influenced by John Berger's Ways of Seeing, but is here updated for the art world of the 21st century. Key to this book is an emphasis on ways of experiencing Old Masters - more than just looking. Just as contemporary art should be judged by how it moves us, cajoles us and envelops us, so too can the great paintings of the world be seen as immersive, captivating, even participatory experiences.

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Verlag
Thames & Hudson Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2019
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0500239673
ISBN 13 
9780500239674
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Anzahl der Seiten
175
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