Vision, Reflection, and Desire in Western Painting (Bettie Allison Rand Lectures in Art History)

出版者:The University of North Carolina Press

作者:David Summers

页数:272

出版时间:2007-10-08

价格:USD 39.95

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780807831106

图书标签:艺术史书单艺术史TRANSHA

Spanning more than 2,500 years in the history of art, this book demonstrates how the rise and diffusion of the science of optics in ancient Greece and the Mediterranean world correlated to pictorial illusion in the development of Western painting from Hellenistic Greece to the present. The spread of understanding of how light is transmitted, reflected, and refracted is evident in the works of artists such as Brunelleschi, van Eyck, Alberti, and Leonardo. The interplay between optics and painting that influenced the course of Western art, Summers says, persisted as a framework for the realism of Caravaggio, Rembrandt, and Goya and continues today in modern photography and film. With 12 color and 79 b&w illus.