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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 759.60903
EAN num: 9780300064742
ISBN number: 0300064748
Label: Yale University Press
Manufacturer: Yale University Press
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 290
Printing Date: March 11, 1999
Publishing house: Yale University Press
Sale Popularity Level: 257205
Studio: Yale University Press
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'Focusing on the interaction between art and the socio-economic and political conditions that prevailed in Spain's golden age, this book offers information about religious beliefs, social attitudes the activities of patrons and collectors, and how these were absorbed and interpreted by painters. The author sets the history of Spanish painting within a European context and explores Spain's contact with artistic centres in Italy and the Netherlands. He discusses not only Spanish artists but also such non-Spanish painters as Titian, Rubens, and Luca Giordano, who either worked in Spain or influenced other artists there. Brown also examines the collections of foreign paintings that Spanish noblemen and prelates assembled and how these collections affected the production of art and the social status of the Spanish artist. In this up-to-date and innovative analysis of two hundred years of Spanish painting, Brown describes a country that brilliantly transformed the artistic impulses it received from abroad to fit the needs of its own society.'--BOOK JACKET.
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As is the case for all the volumes published in this collection, the aim of the book is very first and foremost pedagogical, with a clear and concise text which gets to the basics and avoids unecessary erudition. The author follows a chronology and studies the major artists successively, setting their work in their historical and sociological context. I only wish that the numerous illustrations (sometimes of rarely published works) were of a better quality and that more of them were in colour.
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I am delighted with this book. It is ideal for teaching university students. It not only provides fresh insights into the social milieu as well as the the paintings themselves, it also has an excellent updated bibliography of the literature on the subject. For the past two decades I have lamented the fact that the Kubler-Soria Pelican book on Art and Architecture in Spain had become very first increasingly outdated and then out of print. This book fills that gap splendidly - although I do wish it had been possible to include sculpture in the book as well: the interactions between these two art forms is very important. One other minor criticism: the book emphasizes the importance of the regional schools of painting in the 16th century, yet nowhere in the book is there a map of Spain showing those regions! Next edition of the book, I hope one is included.
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