books by Jacob Wamberg (masonite cultural tracing)

books by Jacob Wamberg

books:

Art & Alchemy

Museum Tusculanum Press, 2006

Partly because of alchemy's dismissal from the Parnassus of rational sciences, the interplay between this esoteric knowledge and the visual arts is still a surprisingly neglected research area. This collection of articles covering the time span from the late middle ages to the 20th century intends, however, to challenge the current neglect. Areas on which its 12 authors cast new light include alchemical gender symbolism in Renaissance, Mannerist ...

Keith Tyson: Large Field Array
Anders Kold, Jacob Wamberg, ...

Louisiana Museum Of Modern Art, 2007

Between the purple foil stamped covers of this thoroughly engaging catalogue lay a plethora of installation shots and well chosen details of the more-than-100 sculptural works that went into Tyson's recent show at Denmark's Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. Some examples include a giant, hairy, very real looking excised beer belly (complete with bandaid) set alongside a cigar and some beer cans on an oriental rug; a stack of books with a toy ...

Landscape As World Picture: Tracing Cultural Evolution in Images
Jacob Wamberg

Aarhus Universitetsforlag, 2008

This book presents a new and comprehensive bid concerning the manner in which landscapes in Western pictorial art may be interpreted in relation to the cultures that created them. Its point of departure is a hitherto unexplored development pattern that characterises landscape representation from Paleolithic cave paintings through to 19th century modernity. Through a structuralist comparison between this pattern and three additional fields of ...

Per Kirkeby 122 x 122: Paintings on Masonite
Mikkel Bogh, Lars Morell, ...

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2003

Testimony to an artist both searching for a language adequate to his experiences and hunting for experiences that can fill out the available sets and scenery, Per Kirkeby's masonite paintings from the 1960s and early 70s are rich and many, a strange, flat mix of the provincial and the cosmopolitan--from Brigitte Bardot to the Royal Deer Park in Copenhagen, from minimalistically expressionless stripes to expressive gestures, from grottos and ...