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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté. Image fixe : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Hall, Marcia B. (1939-....)
Titre(s) : The power of color [Texte imprimé] : five centuries of European painting / Marcia B. Hall
Publication : New Haven : Yale University press, copyright 2019
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (293 p.) : ill. en coul. ; 29 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-285) and index
This expansive study of color illuminates the substance, context, and meaning of five
centuries of European painting. Between the mid-15th and the mid-19th centuries, the
materials of painting remained remarkably unchanged, but innovations in their use
flourished. Technical discoveries facilitated new visual effects, political conditions
prompted innovations, and economic changes shaped artists' strategies, especially
as trade became global. Marcia Hall explores how Michelangelo radically broke with
his contemporaries' harmonizing use of color in favor of a highly saturated approach;
how the robust art market and demand for affordable pictures in 17th-century Netherlands
helped popularize subtly colored landscape paintings; how politics and color became
entangled during the French Revolution; and how modern artists liberated color from
representation as their own role transformed from manipulators of pigments to visionaries
celebrated for their individual expression. Using insights from recent conservation
studies, Hall captivates readers with fascinating details and developments in magnificent
examples-from Botticelli and Titian to Van Gogh and Kandinsky-to weave an engaging
analysis. Her insistence on the importance of examining technique and material to
understand artistic meaning gives readers the tools to look at these paintings with
fresh eyes
Sujet(s) : Couleur (art)
Peinture -- Europe -- Histoire
Indice(s) Dewey :
752 (23e éd.) = Couleur (peinture)
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780300237191 (rel.). - ISBN 0300237197
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb457313540
Notice n° :
FRBNF45731354
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Introduction: making, materials, marketing, meaning ; The fifteenth century : from
egg to oil, from gothic to humanist values ; The sixteenth century : new techniques
for new levels of expression ; The seventeeth century : the economics of art ; The
eighteenth century : the politics of art ; The nineteenth century : industrialization
and globalization of art ; Color as the expression of the immaterial.
