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The true vine : on visual representation and the Western tradition
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ISBN: 0521341442 Year: 1989 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. Cambridge University Press

Jannis Kounellis
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ISBN: 1861891520 Year: 2003 Publisher: Londen Reaktion Books

Paul Delaroche: history painted
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ISBN: 1861890079 9781861890078 Year: 1997 Publisher: London Reaktion Books

Parallel lines: printmakers, painters and photographers in nineteenth-century France
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ISBN: 0300089325 9780300089325 Year: 2001 Publisher: New Haven, Conn. Yale University Press

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The nineteenth century was a remarkable period in art history during which the practices of painting, printmaking and photography intersected in new and unexpected ways. Massive changes in the technology of reproduction took place, and France in particular became a leading testing ground for new printing and photographic techniques. This abundantly illustrated book investigates for the first time the complex and lively interactions between painting, printmaking and photography in France during the 1800s. Cultural historian Stephen Bann explores why rising reproductive media did not supplant traditional modes and how, instead, printmakers, photographers and painters influenced and inspired each other's work, together creating a visual culture of unique richness and breadth. The book focuses especially on pictorial reproduction involving painting, printmaking and photography in combination. Bann includes in the discussion the interweaving careers of Ingres and such contemporary painters as Vernet and Delaroche, such printmakers as lithographer Nicolas Charlet and engraver Luigi Calamatta and such pioneering photographers as Niepce, Daguerre and Robert Bingham. Setting the nineteenth-century issues of reproduction in the context of art history and theory, Bann also offers insights into the nature of art reproduction in our own era of radically changing reproduction technology.


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Distinguished images : prints in the visual economy of nineteenth-century France
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ISBN: 9780300177275 Year: 2013 Publisher: New Haven Yale University Press


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The tradition of constructivism
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ISBN: 0500600104 050061010X Year: 1974 Publisher: London : Thames and Hudson,

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Contents: I. Constructivism in Russia: 1920-23 ; II. Toward International Constructivism: 1921-22 ; III. Constructivism and the Little Magazines: 1923-24 ; IV. Extension of Constructivist Principles: 1923-28 ; V. Retrospect, Theory, and Prognosis: 1928-32 ; VI. The Constructive Idea in Europe: 1930-42 ; VII. The Constructive Idea in the Postwar World: 1923-24 Lissitzky, El ; Gabo, Naum ; Tatlin, Vladimir ; van Doesburg, Theo ; etc.


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The clothing of Clio: a study of the representation of history in nineteenth-century Britain and France
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ISBN: 052125616X Year: 1984 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

The inventions of history: essays on the representation of the past
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ISBN: 0719032970 Year: 1990 Publisher: Manchester Manchester University Press

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Experimental painting : construction, abstraction, destruction, reduction
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ISBN: 0876631200 0289796938 Year: 1970 Publisher: London Studio Vista

Ways around modernism
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ISBN: 9780415974226 9780415974219 0415974224 0415974216 9780203943564 9781135870614 9781135870560 9781135870607 Year: 2007 Publisher: New York : Routledge,

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Stephen Bann explores the 'origins' of modernism; he questions the conflation of modernism with twentieth century art. This book examines the arguments for the centrality of French modernist painting. Bann focuses particularly on the notion of the modernist break, as it has been interpreted with regard to painters like Manet and Ingres. He also argues that 'curiosity' - with its origins in the seventeenth-century world-view - can be a valid concept for understanding some aspects of contemporary art that contest the modern. The term 'curiosity' has often been used to describe practices of collecting and creating objects that are set apart from the hegemonic order of high or academic art. In the nineteenth century 'curiosity' became identified with a new aesthetic close to, if not identical with, that of the 'modern'. Curiosity has resurfaced as a widespread and noteworthy feature of present-day art, connected not only to the creation of objects but also to a discernible shift in museological practice. The artists selected for discussion will include in particular Hubert Duprat, from France, and Gerhard Lang, from Germany. Their orientation with regard to curiosity brings to the surface the broader question of the shared heritage of art and science.

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