Enduring Creation  -  Nigel Spivey

Art, Pain, and Fortitude

KORTE INHOUD

Nigel Spivey takes on one of the greatest taboos in Western culture in this brilliantly original work of cultural history: why is so much pain depicted in the art of the West? Beginning with a meditation on Auschwitz, the prizewinning author then takes us on a journey that encompasses the stone-bound screams of classical sculpture, the many depictions of the Crucifixion, the Massacre of the Innocents and St. Sebastians pierced with arrows, self-portraits of the aging Rembrandt, and the tortured art of Vince...
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2001 Uitgever: University Of California Press 272 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0520230221 ISBN-13: 9780520230224