03567nam 2200625 a 450 991049614790332120230828214740.00-585-28070-3(CKB)111054828787086MAHA91B3089DCLC9048336B(MH)002313926-9(SSID)ssj0000216880(PQKBManifestationID)12022565(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000216880(PQKBWorkID)10202682(PQKB)10601162(EXLCZ)9911105482878708619911106d1991 ub 0engur|||||||||||txtccrOut of Eden essays on modern art /W.S. Di Piero[electronic resource]Berkeley University of California Pressc19911 online resource (257 p., [8] p. of plates )ill. (some col.) ;Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-520-08432-2 0-520-07065-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-251) and index.Modern instances : the Macchiaioli -- Morandi of Bologna -- Killing moonlight : the futurists -- Miscellany I -- Out of Eden : on Alberto Giacometti -- Notes on photography -- Matisse's broken circle -- The Americans -- Miscellany II -- Not a beautiful picture : on Robert Frank -- Other Americans : Julian Schnabel, Jerome Witkin, The Starns, Gregory Gillespie -- Francis Bacon and the fortunes of poetry.Out of Eden presents the rigorous investigations and musings of a poet-essayist on the ways in which modern artists have confronted and transfigured the realist tradition of representation. Di Piero pursues his theme with an autobiographical force and immediacy. He fixes his attention on painters and photographers as disparate as Cezanne, Boccioni, Pollock, Warhol, Edward Weston, and Robert Frank. There is indeed a satisfying sweep to this collection: Matisse, Giacometti, Morandi, Bacon, the Tuscan Macchiaioli of the late nineteenth century, the Futurists of the early modern period, and the American pop painters. Di Piero's analysis of modern images also probes the relation between new kinds of image making and transcendence. The author argues that Matisse and Giacometti, for example, continued to exercise the religious imagination even in a desacralized age. And because Di Piero believes that the visual arts and poetry live intimate, coordinate lives, his essays speak of the relation of poetry to forms in art. Publisher's description.Out of EdenArt, Modern20th centuryThemes, motivesArt, ModernThemes, motives20th centuryVisual Arts - GeneralHILCCVisual ArtsHILCCArt, Architecture & Applied ArtsHILCCArt, ModernThemes, motives.Art, ModernThemes, motivesVisual Arts - GeneralVisual ArtsArt, Architecture & Applied Arts709/.04Di Piero W. S1085602DLCDLCDLCMH-FABOOK9910496147903321Out of Eden2864519UNINAThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress