Examines Tiepolo's works as examples of the specifically pictorial as distinct from the verbal intelligence. This study aims to show that Tiepolo's greatness lies not in stories told, or in meanings pursued, but in the use of the visual medium - drawing, painting, and natural light.
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Examines Tiepolo's works as examples of the specifically pictorial as distinct from the verbal intelligence. This study aims to show that Tiepolo's greatness lies not in stories told, or in meanings pursued, but in the use of the visual medium - drawing, painting, and natural light.
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Very Good+ 0300068174. Color Reproductions and b&w photos; 4to 11"-13" tall; 196 pages; 1996 Yale University Press. Oversize paperback in glossy color pictorial covers. Tightly bound and fresh; no marks. Just superficial shelf evidence to cover externals. 1998 presentation inscription on the title page appears to be from the author, Svetlana Alpers. Lavishly illustrated with color and b&w reproductions. Laid in at front is a 24 page saddle stapled museum booklet illustrated in color from the 1998-99 exhibition of Tiepolo at Musee du Petit Palais. Overall VG++...Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping.; Signed by Author.
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As new, clean, tight and bright condition, with bright and crisp dust jacket which is now in a clear protective mylar sleeve. Size: [8.5" x 11"]. 186pp., illus.
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Very Good. Condition: Very Good; Hardcover in dustjacket. First Edition. Condition is Very Good in a Fine dustjacket. Book is clean, tight and square with very light wear. Jacket bright and crisp without flaws. Photos upon request.
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New. 0300059787. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** – – *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT-FLAWLESS COPY, BRAND NEW, PRISTINE, NEVER OPENED 196 pages. Book Description: "This study by two brilliant and eminently readable art historians looks at Tiepolo`s works as an example of the specifically pictorial as distinguished from the verbal intelligence. Alpers and Baxandall show that Tiepolo`s greatness lies not in stories told, or in meanings pursued, but in the use of his visual medium-drawing, painting and natural lighting. They conclude with a study of his best and biggest painting, The Four Continents at W_rzburg, newly photographed for this book. An appendix offers a gazetteer for travellers."--with a bonus offer--
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VG-(scuffs & marks to wraps; toning to back edges. rubbing to spine edges. ) Glossy, pictorial & white wraps w/ blue printing. 186 pp. 170 color and bw plates. Softcover edition. "Tiepolo is a brilliant example of the specifically pictorial intelligence. This book is both a study of his art and an argument for fuller recognition of the peculiarities of the painter's representational medium. Alpers and Baxandall locate distinctive modes of Tiepolo's representation of the world and human action; follow his process of invention from first pen drawings, through small oil sketches, to great frescoes; and analyse his best and biggest painting, the Four Continents in the Stairway Hall of the Prince-Bishop's Residence at Wurzburg, illustrated with photographs specially taken for the book. The topics taken up include: painting's resistance to enacted narrative drama, its engagement with indeterminacies and repetitions, the senses in which a painter may 'perform' both past art and himself, the constructive roles of gestural drawing, exploitation of shifts of scale between design and finished work, dialogue between the changing natural site lighting and in-picture lighting, contributions made by the beholder's own mobility, the expressive scope of tensions between two and three dimensions, the deep rationale of rococo formal structure, and the sources of the moral force of pictures without an explicit moral. The book-both art criticism and a practical polemic-ends with an annotated gazetteer for travellers, listing those Tiepolo paintings that can still be seen in the places and conditions for which he painted them."--Amazon.
