Realisation-from Seeing to Understanding: The Origins of Art
Our world view has changed from a flat earth under the dome of heaven to a planet spinning in the universe. We perceived the world as a body, like ours, then as a tree, a pyramid, an altar, and finally as a veil which became a window through which we peered only to discover ourselves on a sphere, a bubble which might burst at any moment. Our changing views are interpreted through iconic images of the remote and more recent past: the Venus of Willendorf, the Pyramids, Stonehenge, the Taj Mahal, the Scream, Sydney Opera House, and the Guggenheim, Bilbao.
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Realisation-from Seeing to Understanding: The Origins of Art
Our world view has changed from a flat earth under the dome of heaven to a planet spinning in the universe. We perceived the world as a body, like ours, then as a tree, a pyramid, an altar, and finally as a veil which became a window through which we peered only to discover ourselves on a sphere, a bubble which might burst at any moment. Our changing views are interpreted through iconic images of the remote and more recent past: the Venus of Willendorf, the Pyramids, Stonehenge, the Taj Mahal, the Scream, Sydney Opera House, and the Guggenheim, Bilbao.
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Realisation-from Seeing to Understanding: The Origins of Art

Realisation-from Seeing to Understanding: The Origins of Art

by Julian Spalding
Realisation-from Seeing to Understanding: The Origins of Art

Realisation-from Seeing to Understanding: The Origins of Art

by Julian Spalding

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Overview

Our world view has changed from a flat earth under the dome of heaven to a planet spinning in the universe. We perceived the world as a body, like ours, then as a tree, a pyramid, an altar, and finally as a veil which became a window through which we peered only to discover ourselves on a sphere, a bubble which might burst at any moment. Our changing views are interpreted through iconic images of the remote and more recent past: the Venus of Willendorf, the Pyramids, Stonehenge, the Taj Mahal, the Scream, Sydney Opera House, and the Guggenheim, Bilbao.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781908524454
Publisher: Bitter Lemon Press, Ltd
Publication date: 04/14/2015
Pages: 192
Product dimensions: 5.10(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

JULIAN SPALDING’S books include The Poetic Museum, The Eclipse of Art, The Art of Wonder (winner of the Sir Banister Fletcher Prize) and The Best Art You’ve Never Seen. He was formerly Director of Art Galleries in Sheffield, Manchester and Glasgow (including the Burrell Collection and Kelvingrove) and established The Ruskin Gallery, The St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art, Glasgow’s Gallery of Modern Art, the Open Museum and, as Master of Ruskin’s Guild of St George, the Campaign for Drawing.

Table of Contents

Foreword 7

Chapter 1 Flowers of Common Sense 11

Chapter 2 Body 27

Chapter 3 Tree 50

Chapter 4 Pyramid 68

Chapter 5 Altar 82

Chapter 6 Veil 102

Chapter 7 Through a Glass, Darkly 116

Chapter 8 The End of the Rainbow 139

Chapter 9 Glimpses of Enchantment 162

Recommended Reading 181

Index 187

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