A Brief History of the Artist from God to Picasso / / Paul Barolsky.
In A Brief History of the Artist from God to Picasso, Paul Barolsky explores the ways in which fiction shapes history and history informs fiction. It is a playful book about artistic obsession, about art history as both tragedy and farce, and about the heroic and the mock-heroic. The book demonstrat...
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| Place / Publishing House: | University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2015] ©2010 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (168 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- One. The Art of God from the Beginning of the World till the End of Time
- Two. Homer, Hephaistos, and the Poetic Origins of Art History
- Three. Ovid’s Protean Epic and Artistic Personae
- Four. Dante and the Modern Cult of the Artist
- Five. Vasari and the Quixotic Painter
- Six. Leonardo, Vasari, and the Historical Imagination
- Seven. Vasari and the Autobiography of Michelangelo
- Eight. Balzac and the Fable of Failure in Modern Art
- Nine. Myths and Mysteries of Modern Art
- Ten. Toward a Mock-Heroic History of Art
- Eleven. The Metamorphoses of Picasso
- Coda
- Bibliographical note
- Selected Bibliography
- Index