The Invention of Pastel Painting - 9781904982128
Un libro in lingua di Thea Burns edito da Antique Collectors Club Ltd, 2008
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The Invention of Pastel Painting describes the relatively sudden emergence in the later seventeenth century of sets of friable pastel sticks and a new artistic practice of painting in pastel. The author reconsiders the use of natural and fabricated drawing sticks as tools, firmly locating their use in the context of historical function. 'Artistic techniques have a social history; they are signs endowed with cultural meaning by society.'
In considering the history of chalk and pastel, the author argues that the change is aesthetic, not formal, and is grounded in social function and technical response. She has drawn not only on artists' letters and accounts, documents, critical and theoretical writings, and, broadly, the secondary literature, but also on close visual examination and scientific analysis of selected chalk drawings and paintings in pastel, particularly those created between 1500 and 1750.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: The Invention of Pastel Painting
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Thea Burns
- Editore: Antique Collectors Club Ltd
- Collana: Antique Collectors Club Ltd (Hardcover)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 15 Gennaio '08
- Genere: ART
- Argomenti : Pastel drawing History Human figure in art
- Pagine: 236
- Peso gr: 838
- Dimensioni mm: 247 x 177 x 19
- ISBN-10: 1904982123
- EAN-13: 9781904982128