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Lädt ... Von Giotto bis Cezanne: malerei aus sechs Jahrhundertenvon Michael Levey
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'Outstanding...accurate, free from prejudice, always neat, often stimulating. No better introduction to western painting has ever been produced. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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With Levey's guidance, the reader begins to see the development of Western artistic expression over hundreds of years, and can appreciate the use and importance of certain techniques, such as the always-revolutionary use of light, even in seemingly-benign landscapes and still lifes. You begin to understand the wealth and intricacy of the art form – and again, despair at the current state of the medium. You develop an ability to differentiate between masters and regular painters, and it makes you want to reclaim that much-abused word 'masterpiece' for the things that really deserve it. In our post-modern, relativistic (and anti-Western/anti-Christian) times, appreciation of this sort of thing helps you acquire something approaching taste, or at least an awareness of objective standards. As an interested novice who has always wanted to explore this kind of art but has been wary of the pseuds, I could scarcely have conceived of anything more suitable than Levey's book. ( )