Art in Nature
Title | Art in Nature PDF eBook |
Author | Tove Jansson |
Publisher | Sort of Books |
Pages | 123 |
Release | 2012-07-06 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1908745177 |
An elderly caretaker at a large outdoor exhibition, called Art in Nature, finds that a couple have lingered on to bicker about the value of a picture; he has a surprising suggestion that will resolve both their row and his own ambivalence about the art market. A draughtsman's obsession with drawing locomotives provides a dark twist to a love story. A cartoonist takes over the work of a colleague who has suffered a nervous breakdown only to discover that his own sanity is in danger. In these witty, sharp, often disquieting stories, Tove Jansson reveals the fault-lines in our relationship with art, both as artists and as consumers. Obsession, ambition, and the discouragement of critics are all brought into focus in these wise and cautionary tales.
Art & Nature
Title | Art & Nature PDF eBook |
Author | Kate Farrell |
Publisher | Bulfinch Press |
Pages | 175 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780821219799 |
A companion volume to Art & Love presents poems that touch upon the magnificence of the world's wild places and includes works from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Abstraction in Art and Nature
Title | Abstraction in Art and Nature PDF eBook |
Author | Nathan Cabot Hale |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 2012-06-19 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0486142302 |
In this stimulating, thought-provoking guide, a noted sculptor and teacher demonstrates how to discover a rich new design source in the abstractions inherent in natural forms. Through systematic study of such properties as line, form, shape, mass, pattern, light and dark, space, proportion, scale, perspective, and color as they appear in nature, students can learn to utilize the infinite variety and diversity of those elements as a wellspring of creative abstraction. The author invites students to learn the necessary techniques through a series of projects devoted to exploring and drawing plants, animals, birds, landscapes, seascapes, skies, and more. Lines of growth and structure, water and liquid forms, weather and atmospheric patterns, luminosity in plants and animals, earth colors and lightning are among the sources of abstraction available to the artist who is aware of them. This book will train you to see and use these elements and many more. An intriguing blend of art, psychology, and the natural sciences, Abstraction in Art and Nature is profusely illustrated with over 370 photographs, scientific illustrations, diagrams, and reproductions of works by the great masters. It not only offers a mind-stretching new way of learning and teaching basic design, but deepens our awareness of the natural environment. In short, Mr. Hale's book is an indispensable guide that artists, teachers, and students will want to have close at hand for instruction, inspiration, and practical guidance.
Canopus in Argos
Title | Canopus in Argos PDF eBook |
Author | Doris Lessing |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1286 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Science fiction, English |
ISBN |
Art and Nature in the Anthropocene
Title | Art and Nature in the Anthropocene PDF eBook |
Author | Susan Ballard |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 313 |
Release | 2021-03-17 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1000349586 |
This book examines how contemporary artists have engaged with histories of nature, geology, and extinction within the context of the changing planet. Susan Ballard describes how artists challenge the categories of animal, mineral, and vegetable—turning to a multispecies order of relations that opens up a new vision of what it means to live within the Anthropocene. Considering the work of a broad range of artists including Francisco de Goya, J. M. W. Turner, Robert Smithson, Nancy Holt, Yhonnie Scarce, Joyce Campbell, Lisa Reihana, Katie Paterson, Taryn Simon, Susan Norrie, Moon Kyungwon and Jeon Joonho, Ken + Julia Yonetani, David Haines and Joyce Hinterding, Angela Tiatia, and Hito Steyerl and with a particular focus on artists from Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, this book reveals the emergence of a planetary aesthetics that challenges fixed concepts of nature in the Anthropocene. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual culture, narrative nonfiction, digital and media art, and the environmental humanities.
The Art of Nature
Title | The Art of Nature PDF eBook |
Author | Tim McNulty |
Publisher | |
Pages | 160 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Natural history |
ISBN | 9781435113954 |
Nature
Title | Nature PDF eBook |
Author | Jeffrey Kastner |
Publisher | MIT Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Aesthetics |
ISBN | 9780262517669 |
This anthology considers how the rise of transdisciplinary practices in the post-war era allowed for new kinds of artistic engagement with nature. It provides an overview of the eclectic scientific and philosophical sources that inform contemporary art's investigations of nature.