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The art of reading : an illustrated history of books in paint / Jamie Camplin, Maria Ranauro.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Los Angeles, California : Getty Publications, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 256 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781606065860
  • 1606065866
Subject(s):
Contents:
Why do artists love books? How it all began ; Who invented 'the artist'? ; Courtly cultures and their undercurrents ; 'People are stuffed with reading matter' ; Books and the painting of 'modern life' ; Things hold together -- Painting is 'like a book ... which needs to give up its riches'. The word of God ; 'Book-love' and the home ; Perennial pleasures in multiple locations ; 'All that men held wise".
Summary: "Revealing centuries of symbiosis between the visual and literary arts, The Art of Reading brings together works by the many great artists who took inspiration from the printed word"--Provided by publisher.Summary: Camplin and Renauro reveal centuries of symbiosis between the visual and literary arts. They examine the development of printed books and the simultaneous emergence of the modern figure of the artist. In doing so they weave together an engaging cultural history that probes the ways in which books and paintings represent a key to understanding ourselves and the past. -- adapted from jacket
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

"Why do artists love books?" This volume takes this tantalizingly simple question as a starting point to reveal centuries of symbiosis between the visual and literary arts. First looking at the development of printed books and the simultaneous emergence of the modern figure of the artist, The Art of Reading appraises works by the many great masters who took inspiration from the printed word. Bringing together more than one hundred paintings that include books as part of their subject matter, this lively and companionable survey examines how the book became the single most ubiquitous feature of our cultural lives and, in large measure, of everyday existence.



Authors Jamie Camplin and Maria Ranauro weave together an engaging cultural history that probes the ways in which books and paintings represent a key to understanding ourselves and the past. Paintings contain a world of information about religion, class, gender, and power, but they also reveal details of everyday life often lost in history texts--and all the more so when books are depicted. Such artworks show us not only how books have been used and valued over time but also how the significance and practice of reading have evolved in Western society.



Featuring work by artists from across Europe and the United States and all painting genres, The Art of Reading explores the two-thousand-year story of the great painters and the preeminent information-providing, knowledge-endowing, solace-giving, belief-supporting, leisure-enriching, pleasure-delivering medium of all time: the book.

"Revealing centuries of symbiosis between the visual and literary arts, The Art of Reading brings together works by the many great artists who took inspiration from the printed word"--Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Camplin and Renauro reveal centuries of symbiosis between the visual and literary arts. They examine the development of printed books and the simultaneous emergence of the modern figure of the artist. In doing so they weave together an engaging cultural history that probes the ways in which books and paintings represent a key to understanding ourselves and the past. -- adapted from jacket

Why do artists love books? How it all began ; Who invented 'the artist'? ; Courtly cultures and their undercurrents ; 'People are stuffed with reading matter' ; Books and the painting of 'modern life' ; Things hold together -- Painting is 'like a book ... which needs to give up its riches'. The word of God ; 'Book-love' and the home ; Perennial pleasures in multiple locations ; 'All that men held wise".

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